Engineering Manager, Product Features

About the Engineering Manager, Product Features Role at Testlio

Testlio's fully managed crowdsourced testing platform integrates expert, on-demand testers directly into your release process. Ship faster and more confidently with global coverage across 600,000+ devices, 800+ payment methods, 150+ countries, and 100+ languages. As an Engineering Manager, Product Features, you will lead a team of Software Engineers delivering solutions that harness data & the latest AI advancements to generate measurable business impacts, ensuring Testlio's leadership in quality software testing services. This role reports to the Director, Engineering.

Why You Will Love This Job

• Play a key role in product discovery, working closely with business stakeholders, internal teams, and freelance contributors to deeply understand product challenges and influence both technical strategy and product direction.
• Shape the future of testing with AI: Be at the forefront of innovation, building solutions that harness the power of AI to automate tasks, generate valuable insights, and drive testing efficiency.
• Impactful Leadership: Direct a team dedicated to improving coding standards, test coverage, and product quality, ensuring software meets the highest industry standards.
• Make a tangible impact: Your work directly influences the success of Testlio's clients and the quality of their digital products, benefiting millions of users.

Why You Will Love Being a Part of Testlio

• Great Culture: Testlio is a female-founded company with an inclusive, purpose-driven culture, where collaboration is genuinely enjoyed. You'll help create exceptional digital experiences for customers and contribute to the freelance network.
• Remote Work: Testlio embraces a fully remote and globally distributed team, with systems for asynchronous work. Tools and guidance are provided for career success in this setting, encouraging decision-making, effective communication, and a sustainable pace.
• Investment in You: Your growth and well-being are prioritized with flexible paid time off (national holidays, personal days, sick days), stock options, and a $300 annual learning stipend.
• Winning Business: Testlio is growing, profitable, and cash-strong, leading the industry with exceptional clients, a high NPS score, and a 4.7 rating on G2. Their business model is global, enterprise, and subscription-based, with long-term client relationships.

What Your Day Would Look Like

• Lead a high-performing team focused on Platform work management capabilities (e.g., Tests, Issues, Tasks, Runs), designing and delivering AI-powered features and systems that directly impact users and drive business outcomes.
• Enforce operational discipline by ensuring all work is properly labeled/traced, and the Definition of Done (DoD) is strictly followed to minimize escaped defects.
• Drive Scrum rituals, backlog prioritization, and technical design reviews to balance rapid iteration with long-term scalability.
• Lead and manage multiple projects tied to the core product and contribute to the product's growth.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business to translate complex problems into actionable, impactful engineering work, owning the solution from concept to deployment.
• Champion a culture of observability by defining service level objectives (SLOs), building dashboards to monitor performance (e.g., DB query speeds, error rates), and leading root-cause analysis for any production issues.
• Manage the operational efficiency of your team’s services, including monitoring cloud costs and ensuring infrastructure resources are optimized.
• Coach engineers to grow both their technical skills and their product-thinking mindset, with a strong focus on adopting AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot) to improve developer experience.
• Leverage metrics and data-driven insights to inform key decisions and optimize team performance.
• Champion continuous learning through code reviews, cross-training, and documentation practices that eliminate knowledge silos and support team resilience.

What You Need to Succeed: Technical Skills

• A university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of experience in leading & motivating a team of 5+ software engineers, fostering a positive and productive work environment, using agile methodologies.
• 5-10 years of full-stack coding experience, building performant, scalable, and modern cloud-native applications.
• Strong affinity with Testlio's tech stack, including TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Kafka, React, and GraphQL.
• Experience with observability/APM tools (e.g., NewRelic, Datadog, Sentry) to visualize system health and optimize slow database transactions.
• Knowledge of application security best practices and experience integrating security reviews into the SDLC.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools and a mindset for optimizing Developer Experience.
• Prior experience managing a SaaS product is a plus.

What You Need to Succeed: Human Skills

• Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized & thorough. Committed to quality, with a meticulous approach to ensuring standards and processes are met or exceeded.
• Growth Catalyst. Passionate about developing team productivity and technical excellence, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Results-oriented, with data-driven decision-making and a focus on delivering impactful outcomes.
• Preference for a remote working environment, to lead a distributed team in the EMEA timezone.

Application Process

Testlio's interview process typically takes 3 to 4 weeks and involves multiple stages to ensure a good fit for their 100% distributed team:

• Application Review
• Recruiter Interview
• TestGorilla Assessment
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Take-Home Test
• 2 Team and Stakeholder interviews
• Reference checks
• Offer

Diversity and Inclusion at Testlio

Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment. It is a female-founded company, with 46% of team members identifying as women. More information is available on their DEI section of their website.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Management
• Product Discovery
• AI/Machine Learning
• Full-Stack Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Leadership
• Technical Strategy
• Scalable Applications
• Observability (SLOs, APM)
• Developer Experience (DX)