Engineering Manager | Remote | Europe

🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving AI-native world - developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment. This is a first-line engineering leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, but whose real strength is building teams: empowering engineers on their growth path, aligning stakeholders, and helping people move with confidence as technology, customer needs, and opportunities evolve quickly around them.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.
• Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n.
• Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.
• Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.
• Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
• Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn't.
• Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.
• Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.
• Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You've been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization. You've led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health.
• 🎯 Relevant domain experience: You've led engineering teams working in one of the following areas
• 💳 Billing & licensing: subscription, billing, payments, metering, or licensing/entitlement systems
• 🔍 Governance & observability: audit logging, monitoring/observability tooling, admin/access controls, or compliance-related features
• 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.
• ⚙️ Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• 🛠️ Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.
• 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.
• 🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You've worked with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.
• 🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest: You're excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.
• 🤖 AI product exposure: You've worked near AI-native products, AI features, or teams exploring how AI is changing product experiences and engineering execution.

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to "empower others," and we mean it—you'll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
• Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness 🩺 –
• Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
• US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
• Future planning 💰 –
• Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security 🛡️ –
• Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
• US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You'll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone's working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.