Engineering Manager

n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation. We give technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code, backed by a passionate community of builders. With 400+ integrations and fair-code principles, we're revolutionizing how businesses connect their systems and processes.
We were founded end of 2019 and currently:
We're a diverse team of + 70 talented people
Our annual recurring revenue is growing 3x year-over-year
With +51k GitHub stars, we are in the top 0.0001% most popular projects on Github
We're Europe's 25th fastest growing startup in 2024 according to Sifted
We now count a total of $20m in funding: we were Sequoia's first seed investment in Germany, and most recently secured a Series A extension (February 2024)
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who wants to join and lead our Adoption team (team Adore). Whether it's AI-driven solutions that simplify n8n, initiatives that spin the growth loop faster, or features that the n8n community loves, Team Adore focuses on boosting adoption, activation, and retention, ensuring users fall in love with n8n more deeply and effortlessly.
**Your responsibilities**
- Act as a leader, fostering a culture of innovation, experimentation, and learning within the engineering team, while also contributing to improving engineering culture and best practices.
- Drive architectural decisions and ensure high-quality standards as well as spending around 20% of your time still being hands on.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design and the rest of the engineering teams to drive n8n forward to ultimately build an amazing product.
**Requirements**:
- Experience leading and developing a high performing engineering team with a desire to still be hands on and code.
- You are a builder both of teams and products at heart. You deeply care about the end user, making sure that the rest of the team does too.
- Demonstrate an agile mindset, proactiveness, and adaptability to changing priorities, with a strong emphasis on iterative problem-solving.
- Strong proficiency in **Node.js & Typescript**, with at least 5 years of experience, preferably on a cutting-edge tech product
- Solid skills in relational database design, SQL programming (SQLite, PostgreSQL)
- Extra credit:
- Familiarity with cloud computing (Docker, Kubernetes), DevOps knowledge, and/or experience with Vue.js
- Passionate about automation
- n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status._
- We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work._
**_ Our company language is English._**
- You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too Check out our _Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n_._
**Benefits**:
**Competitive compensation**
**Ownership**: Our core value is to "empower others", and we give you a slice of n8n in the form of equity.
**Work/life balance**: We work hard, but make sure everyone can properly recharge their batteries with 30 days holiday, plus public holidays wherever you are.
**Career growth**:We are looking to hire 'rising stars', who can grow with the company into more senior roles. We give you €1k a year to spend on courses, books, events and coaching, to support you in developing your career.
**A passionate team**: We love our product, and we have regular office hackathons to see who can build the coolest thing with it
**Remote-first**: Unless specified otherwise on the job posting, our team works remote from anywhere within Europe but we have regular off-sites to help build team bonds and alignment.
**Transparency**:We all know what everyone's working on, how's the company doing — the whole shebang.
**Giving back**:We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
**Ambitious but kind culture** where people love to work - our eNPS for 2023 is 100

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