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# Software engineering manager

- **Company:** Sunrise Group
- **Location:** Belgium (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Design Documents, Django Web Framework, Google Cloud, ReactJS
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineering-manager-sunrise-group-10503592

## About the Role

* At least 3 years managing software engineers in a dedicated management role
 * 5+ years as a software engineer before moving into management, including senior-level ownership of production systems
 * Track record of shipping and operating production web products, with enough technical depth to challenge designs and estimates credibly (our stack: React, Django, GCP)
 * Experience partnering closely with Product and Design in an empowered-squad model
 * Hands-on with AI-assisted engineering tooling, and opinionated about where it helps and where it does not
 * Fluent English (working language); French is a plus
 * Genuine interest in sleep, health, and helping people better understand and improve their well-being

## Description

* Lead and develop a team of 6 to 10 engineers across 2 to 3 product squads. Run 1:1s, give honest feedback, own performance and promotion decisions, and build development plans against our engineering ladder
 * Own delivery for your squads: what gets committed, who works on what, and whether it lands. Challenge scope and dates with Product, with an explicit mandate to refuse commitments the team cannot sustainably meet
 * Protect long-term velocity: own the capacity allocation for tech health and platform quality
 * Hire: partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close engineers. Run technical interviews yourself and hold the hiring bar.
 * Raise the technical bar: stay close to the code and designs where it matters most (high-risk changes, new patterns, design docs, review quality), using AI tooling to navigate the codebase efficiently, and help your squads turn good engineering into great engineering.
 * Work closely with Tech Leads and the Principal Engineer, who own technical feasibility and task breakdown in their scope. Challenge them on ambition and approach, unblock them, and escalate structural risks early
 * Champion modern, AI-augmented engineering practices and continuous improvement of how the team works
 * Stay deeply immersed in product and business context: direct stakeholder relationships, presence in squad rituals, and manage cross-squad dependencies