Engineering Manager

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Software Engineering Manager who thrives in both leadership and technical roles. This position is ideal for someone who understands how to build and lead a high-performing team while maintaining strong technical judgment. The role requires balancing people leadership, execution, and strategic guidance to ensure success at every level.

The Engineering Manager will report directly to the Director of Engineering and must prioritize clear, open communication to ensure full visibility into the team’s work, challenges, and progress. Transparency is non-negotiable: you need to know what’s happening on the ground and make sure leadership does too. Leading by example, holding high standards, and making tough decisions when needed are key aspects of the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• People Leadership: Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team. Coach, mentor, and grow engineers, ensuring they have opportunities for professional development and career advancement
• Team Visibility & Communication: Maintain a deep understanding of the team’s daily work, struggles, and successes. Proactively surface issues, provide solutions, and ensure leadership is never in the dark
• Execution Leadership: Plan, prioritize, and oversee the execution of engineering projects. Make sure work is delivered on time without compromising quality and hold the team accountable while removing blockers
• Technical Oversight: Provide guidance on technical decisions, ensuring best practices and high engineering standards. You don’t need to write code daily, but you should be able to engage in architectural discussions and call out technical risks
• Transparency & Trust: Keep leadership informed with no surprises. Clear and effective communication with leadership is critical to success in this role
• Culture & Engagement: Foster an environment of ownership, accountability, and open feedback. Push for excellence but ensure psychological safety so the team is empowered to innovate and take risks
• Decision-Making & Tough Conversations: Know when to push, when to support, and when to have direct conversations about performance and expectations
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, UX, and other teams to ensure technical efforts align with business priorities
• Continuous Improvement: Identify bottlenecks in engineering processes and drive improvements in execution, communication, and team effectiveness

Job Requirements:

• Experience leading software engineering teams, with a strong track record of building and growing talent
• Excellent communication skills, both within the team and upward to leadership
• A strong technical background, ideally having been a software engineer in the past
• A deep understanding of execution and how to keep a team focused and accountable
• Experience working in an environment that requires balancing execution speed, technical excellence, and business needs
• Ability to handle difficult conversations with clarity and fairness; this includes performance management, feedback, and driving accountability
• Strong grasp of modern software development practices, including agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps principles
• Comfort with ambiguity: ability to bring structure and clarity where it is lacking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing teams working on complex or legacy codebases while driving modernization efforts
• Familiarity with performance optimization, debugging, and system reliability
• A track record of making tough calls when necessary, whether technical, operational, or people-related
• Experience in cloud-based architectures and microservices

Additional Information:

This role is for someone who can balance technical credibility with strong leadership. You should be able to challenge engineers on their decisions while also creating an environment where they feel supported and motivated. If you want to lead a team that operates with clarity, transparency, and high standards, while maintaining a close working relationship with leadership, this is the right opportunity for you.

Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:

• 18 Days of Paid Time Off Annually
• Medical, Accidental, and Life Insurance
• Weekly Wellness Sessions
• Monthly Healthcare Allowance