Engineering Manager (Search & AI Discovery)

The Engineering Manager (Search & AI Discovery) at JobCloud leads the engineering team that helps job seekers discover relevant jobs and employers reach suitable candidates. The team’s work covers search, recommendations and alerts on JobCloud’s platforms, and making JobCloud’s content visible in search engines and AI assistants. This hybrid role is full time and based in Porto, Portugal.

As Engineering Manager, you improve relevance, performance and reliability as job discovery evolves. You work with Product, UX, Marketing and AI and data specialists.

This role suits engineering leaders who still read architecture diagrams but no longer need their name on every pull request. You know when to coach, when to challenge and when to get out of the way. You build trust and work well with engineers who know more than you.

• Partner integrations: Own each integration of partner technology from the first version to a commercial feature in production. Help decide where partnering beats building.
• Team leadership: Lead an engineering team distributed across locations. Hire top talent and keep the team healthy. Give timely, actionable feedback and support individual growth plans.
• Product partnership: Work with Product Management to balance new features against reliability, security, maintainability and cost.
• Delivery: Turn priorities into realistic delivery plans with capacity, dependencies and risks made explicit. Communicate early, report bad news promptly and renegotiate when delivery is at risk.
• Ownership and operations: The team runs what it builds, with clear service ownership, monitoring and tested recovery options. Run blameless postmortems and turn recurring problems into structural improvements.
• Technical excellence: Review technical approaches and challenge designs and estimates, relying on technical leadership such as Staff engineers. Uphold shared engineering standards.
• Team culture: Create a safe environment where engineers challenge each other, raise concerns and experiment. Use open feedback as a tool for shared growth.
• AI-assisted engineering: Improve how the team works with AI assistants and coding agents where they deliver demonstrable value. Keep a human accountable.

• Ownership and impact: Own partner integrations from the first version to a commercial feature in production. Decide where partnering beats building and shape the team’s roadmap, architecture and hiring.
• Hybrid work: Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
• Team culture: A working atmosphere built on trust, mutual support and team spirit. JobCloud is a kununu Top Company 2026.
• International collaboration: Work with colleagues across JobCloud’s international offices (Zurich, Geneva, Belgrade or Vienna) including regular visits to Switzerland.
• Training budget: A personal budget for your professional development.
• 1 day per month to tackle challenges inside the project, or test new ideas
• A dynamic work environment that highly fosters a sense of fun while maintaining a productive atmosphere

HOW DOES THE HIRING PROCESS FOR THIS ROLE WORK?

1. Pre-screening with recruiter (30 min): Motivation, role expectations, location and hybrid-work requirements
2. Hiring manager interview (45 min): Scope, autonomy, collaboration and influence
3. System design (70 to 90 min): Ownership after launch, communication and writing
4. Product (45 min): Product & Costumer Sense and Communication
5. Final round (45 min) with CTO: Leadership, Collaboration & Influence
6. Offer

• 10 days fully paid sick leave per year
• 25 days of annual vacation leave
• Full private health coverage (employee + up to 2 children to age 20)
• Gym allowance
• Hybrid & flexible working (team-based arrangement)
• Learning & Development
• Workation