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Engineering Manager

Shanghai💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Provide engineering leadership, line management, and mentoring to engineering managers and engineers within a business domain or project team at a leading research publisher.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (hands-on IC with management responsibilities)

Builds

Technology-enabled products, platforms, and services for researchers, health professionals, and educators

Domain

Publishing / Research / Open Science

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Engineering leadership, line management, mentoring, coaching, career development, technical strategy, software development lifecycle, agile ways of working, stakeholder management, recruitment process improvement, performance management, non-functional requirements enforcement, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience managing managers, delegation, self-development, customer-centric culture, decision-making in ambiguity, creative problem solving with non-developers

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Provide engineering leadership and support to domain leadership; mentor and coach engineering managers and engineers; drive performance, goal setting, and career development; contribute to engineering culture and technical strategy; ensure alignment with company standards and cross-cutting departments; enforce development standards and ways of working; participate in engineering forums; manage recruitment pipeline and performance appraisals; balance individual delivery targets with line management duties

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management oversight

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