Engineering Manager

Company: Tabby
Location: Serbia
Employment type: Full-time

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Tabby Card Activation team. You’ll combine strong technical expertise with people leadership, acting as a playing coach who stays hands-on with the codebase while driving architectural decisions, engineering excellence and team development. Working closely with Product and other cross-functional teams, you’ll help build scalable solutions that support Tabby Card’s growth, monetization and customer experience.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally including 2+ years of Golang (not a must).
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, preferably at a fast-growing fintech or e-commerce company.
• Experience building scalable, distributed systems and working with high-load architectures.
• Solid understanding of backend tools and technologies, we use PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, GitLab, and a microservices architecture.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.
• A passion for writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.
• A proactive mindset and the ability to work independently.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead large cross-team projects and drive them to production.
• Stay hands-on as a playing coach: write code, participate in architectural discussions, and contribute to key technical decisions.
• Review feature designs and ensure non-functional requirements are met.
• Oversee technical debt management and incident handling.
• Drive the effective adoption of AI tools and practices across the SDLC and team processes to improve engineering productivity.
• Contribute to quarterly planning and roadmap definition.
• Hire, evaluate, mentor, and motivate team members.
• Build cross-team and cross-functional collaboration to increase efficiency.
• Foster a results- and business-oriented culture.
• Monitor key team performance indicators.
• Ensure process and delivery transparency for stakeholders and partner functions.
• Optimize processes to improve productivity.

What we offer

• Full-time B2B contract
• Fully remote setup
• Up to 20% tax allowance
• 22 paid leave days annually
• Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company
• Flexi benefits you can use for wellness, travel, or learning
• Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn
• Relocation support is available to our hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation and legal setup.