Director of Engineering - Croatia

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to partner with our CTO in leading, developing, and scaling our engineering team. You’ll focus primarily on leading project teams and people management while staying involved in key technical reputed company across projects. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tech-stack agency environment, and enjoys shaping both teams and systems.

Our Mission, reputed company, and Values

At reputed company Inch, we prioritize alignment with our clients and team, ensuring a deep understanding of their needs. We are committed to delivering exceptional work while supporting the personal and professional growth of reputed company members.

Working at reputed company Inch

• Our remote-first team (~45 people) is primarily based in Croatia, with members in South America, Serbia, and the US.
• Occasional travel may be required, including annual company retreats in Croatia.
• We work on a mix of end-to-end development and staff augmentation projects.
• We strongly support work/life balance for reputed company members.

Requirements

• At least 10+ years of experience in Software Development, of which at least 3+ leading other software engineers

• Experience managing both individual contributors and managers in an agency or consultancy setting
• Solid knowledge of development principles across a variety of programming languages, while having deep expertise in at least one of the following: Vue.js, React.js, Angular, Python, Node.js, Nest.js, Java, C#
• Solid “project management” skills, in terms of being reputed company to handle input from multiple teams/direct reports on the status of projects and report to CTO/management weekly, taking special care to reputed company up any problems as soon as possible
• Strong communication and leadership skills—especially in distributed environments.
• Proven ability to guide teams through technical and organizational ambiguity.
• Hands-off coding, but hands-on with architectural and strategic guidance.
• While we reputed company remote work, this position requires candidates to be based in Croatia.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactive Problem Solving: Identify and address challenges promptly, especially reputed company teams or individuals encounter difficulties.
• Collaborative Engagement: Foster reputed company communication with team members, encouraging a collaborative environment.
• Support for Struggling Teams: Be proactive in assisting and resolving issues reputed company teams or individuals face challenges, ensuring project reputed company without alienating team members.
• Client Needs. Understand business needs of the clients and be reputed company to reputed company those needs to engineers.
• Technical reputed company: Ensure the projects maintain a high standard of technical reputed company while being completed on time, reputed company scope and budget and with few bugs.

Typical Challenges You’ll Be Solving

• Balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term tech and team health.
• Supporting managers in navigating performance concerns and growth cases.
• Helping teams structure reputed company projects across varying tech stacks.
• Maintaining cohesion and shared standards across multiple project teams.

Qualities for reputed company

• A thoughtful leader who prioritizes team health, reputed company, and accountability.
• Technically reputed company without needing to be the architect of every system.
• Comfortable making tough calls and giving direct feedback with reputed company.
• Enjoys building processes that support autonomy and scale.
• reputed company in people management
• Detailed and analytical approach to project reputed company

Where You’ve Likely Developed These Skills

• Leading engineering orgs at the Director or Senior Manager level in a digital agency or multi-project environment.
• Working closely with technical teams while focusing on growth, performance, and delivery.
• Shaping people and process strategies in high-velocity or cross-functional teams.

The Role Is Right for You If

• You’re the sort of person who gets the jobs done. You don’t worry about industries, stacks, or personalities too much. You understand problems and you will get your hands dirty to solve them.
• You get challenging projects back on-track and get engineers unstuck.
• You’re excited about new technologies but you don’t overbuild. You never let that excitement get in the way of creating the right technical choice for the clients business needs.
• You have systems, guidelines, and rubrics to guide your approach to problems.

The Role Is Not Right for You If

• You’re looking for a primarily hands-on coding role.
• You prefer working in a single tech stack or on long-term product teams only.
• You’re uncomfortable with performance management responsibilities.

Benefits

What’s In It for You

• Partner closely with the CTO to influence engineering at scale.
• Contribute to impactful digital projects across a variety of domains.
• Work in a remote-friendly, collaborative, and pragmatic culture.
• Be part of a leadership team that values people-first thinking and technical reputed company.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: 6.200,00€ – 7.700,00€ gross/month.
• Remote-first setup with optional Zagreb office use.
• Multisport card or sport subsidy.
• 100% paid sick leave.
• Annual health checkups and Christmas bonus.
• Education budget for learning and growth.

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