Engineering Manager

 

About Us: 

A global SaaS leader for seamless digital document workflows, Nitro offers a suite of solutions for PDF, eSigning, identity verification and analytics supported by a best-in-class customer success and change management team. With more than 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ business customers across 157 countries, we serve 67% of the Fortune 500.
 

The Role:  

We are seeking an experienced, driven, and customer-focused Engineering Manager to lead our team of skilled engineers in the development and delivery of our Windows desktop applications and core PDF technologies. 

The ideal candidate will have a relentless focus on delivering an exceptional user experience, have a strong technical background, proven leadership abilities, and experience in managing teams operating under Agile and Scrum frameworks. You will play a pivotal role in driving team performance, ensuring high-quality software delivery, and fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture. 

  

Key Responsibilities 

 

• Lead, mentor, and inspire teams of C++ and C# application engineers, taking accountability for delivery across your teams. 

• Actively foster a high bar for engineering excellence with a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability. 

• Encourage and enable a customer-centric mindset within the team, working closely with our product and partner teams to develop solutions that exceed our customer expectations. 

• Support professional growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance reviews. 

• Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices. 

• Lead communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focused space for engineers to do their best work. 

• Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to and improve company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards. 

• Champion and implement modern AI-assisted development practices and agentic workflows to maximize team efficiency and transparency, using metrics to identify process improvements and make data driven decisions. 

• Align engineering efforts with business goals, product vision, and technical strategy. 

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans. 

  

Required Skills and Qualifications 

• 3-5+ years as an Engineering Manager in a software development environment with direct experience leading cross functional teams. 

• Strong understanding of application development and release management. 

• Experience with Windows or Desktop development is a plus. 

• Track record of shipping user focused applications and products. 

• Hands-on experience with modern development practices such as Agentic Workflows, CI/CD, unit testing, and version control (Git). 

• Proven experience leading teams using Agile and/or Scrum methodologies.