Engineering Manager – Engagement Stream

appflame — a Ukrainian IT company building world-class products: Hily, Taimi, AdConnect, Mailkeeper, and more.

Who we are today:

• 7 years on the market, 500+ employees, offices in Kyiv, London, and Limassol, plus a coworking space in Warsaw.
• In 2025, appflame ranked 5th among Ukraine's 50 best employers according to Forbes and won in the "Place for Growth" category.
• Our apps Hily and Taimi are among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S., with over 70 million users. AdConnect and Mailkeeper build and scale our own B2B and B2C solutions.

Our mission: Flame up the world with Ukrainian products.

Our goals:

• Reach the top 5 product companies in the world.
• Become a unicorn — and turn Ukraine into a country where unicorns are born and thrive.

We're looking for daring, ambitious, and "a little crazy" people — those who love building real products and dream of launching cool startups. You have the ambition; we have the conditions to make it happen.

Your project:

Hily. It is a dating app that allows users to be truly themselves and enjoy dating as they are. On Hily, users become part of a community where people find genuine connections and meaningful relationships.

The app ranks among the Top 5 dating apps in the U.S. by downloads, competing with market leaders such as Tinder and Bumble.

Hily today: 40M users, 1.5B likes sent, 50M+ matches annually.

You will:

• Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams and act as the engineering stakeholder for your business domain.
• Be the single point of alignment for your teams — unify direction and drive strategic changes through to execution on the ground.
• Build a strong partnership with Product, collaborating closely to align on priorities and deliver outcomes together.
• Improve engineering effectiveness — delivery, quality, and cross-team collaboration.
• Define, improve, and enforce the teams’ SDLC and engineering processes.
• Mentor engineers and support their career growth; participate in performance management and OKR-setting.
• Participate in hiring and raise the bar for the teams.
• Set new standards, foster engineering culture, and drive adoption of modern engineering practices — including AI — while building visibility into team health.

We'll have a match if you:

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• English level B1 or higher.
• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role.
• Strong leadership, communication, and people management skills.
• Delivery & product ownership: align with stakeholders, communicate trade-offs clearly, highlight risks, and own outcomes.
• Comfort owning and shaping engineering processes / SDLC, including modern iterative practices.
• AI fluency: experience leveraging AI to optimize engineering workflows.

Will be an advantage:

• Experience with our stack — native iOS, Android, and PHP.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting agentic workflows; familiarity with SDD, LLM token economics, and context engineering.

What we offer:

• Work: Remote-first setup, modern offices with activities, and all the equipment you need, plus compensation to set up your remote workplace.
• Growth: Fair pay with regular reviews; after probation, compensation for education and English courses, Online Speaking Club, online library, and course access.
• Health & time off: Medical insurance coverage, psychologist consultations, unlimited paid sick days, and 31 paid vacation days/year (incl. public holidays).
• Team: Corporate events, team-building activities, and paid participation in sports competitions.

Why appflame?

• Build Ukrainian products that compete with the best players on the global market.
• Bring your own ideas to life instead of being a cog in the system.
• Direct contact with Snapchat, Facebook, Google, and Apple, and access to their best practices.
• Work with a global market and a massive audience.
• A team of like-minded people focused on results.
• Well-established processes and real opportunities to grow within the company.
• Transparent evaluation based on personal performance indicators.

Join our team — it's going to be hotter than you can imagine.

We are against all types of discrimination, bullying, and stereotypes. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, health status or any other characteristics.