Global Changer is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) Squad. You will be a player-coach, staying hands-on with code while guiding a senior team in building and evolving data-intensive features to solve critical climate tech problems.
What You'll Do
- Lead by example and stay close to the code in the most complex areas.
- Build and evolve CCF and emission reduction features with a focus on correctness, auditability, and performance.
- Work on data-intensive systems: ETL pipelines, transactional → analytical data flows, and real-time carbon analytics.
- Design and operate AI-assisted workflows (including self-hosted LLMs) to process large amounts of supplier and emissions data.
- Review code across Go, Ruby on Rails, and Vue.js, keeping systems stable as complexity grows.
- Grow and enable a small, senior team (currently ~3, scaling to 6+).
- Hire engineers with strong technical fundamentals and a product mindset.
- Coach the team through architectural change (monolith → services, data & AI-first thinking).
- Foster ownership, pragmatism, and a culture focused on solving customer problems.
- Partner closely with Product and the CTO to align product goals and technical decisions.
- Decide what stays in the monolith and what moves into dedicated services.
- Shape data and AI architecture, balancing deterministic logic with LLM-based approaches and ensuring data integrity.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years in software engineering.
- 2+ years in a leadership or management role.
- Proven player-coach experience: staying hands-on while leading a senior team.
- Experience evolving large systems (e.g., monolith to services) without breaking production.
- Strong background in data-heavy systems (ETL/ELT, OLTP ↔ OLAP, analytics workloads) and expertise working with Big Data.
- Practical experience designing and operating AI or LLM-based systems in production.
- Based in CET ±1 hour for sufficient team overlap.
- Valid EU/EEA work authorization.
- Strong Ruby on Rails experience and solid proficiency in Go.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL performance and data modeling.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js 3 or similar).
- Solid foundation with containerized infrastructure (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Experience building software with high correctness and auditability requirements (e.g., climate, fintech, ERP).
- Proven ability to hire, mentor, and grow senior engineers in an ego-less manner.
- Great reflection skills.
- Comfortable working in a fully remote, asynchronous-first environment.
- Clear, structured communication in English.
Technical Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Vue.js 3
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will lead the Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) Squad, reporting directly to the CTO. The team is currently ~3 engineers and will scale to 6+. You will have real influence as our first Engineering Manager, actively shaping team culture, processes, and architecture.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive compensation + VSOP option
- 28 vacation days + flexible planning
- 100% remote, flexible working hours - family-friendly
- Annual team offsites
- Freedom to contribute to the open source community
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position with flexible hours, open to individuals based within CET ±1 hour. We operate with low bureaucracy, high trust, and close collaboration.
Global Changer is an equal opportunity employer.
