Lovable
Engineering
EngineeringManager
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“Engineering Manager at Lovable. Skills: engineering leadership, people management, technical credibility, business acumen. Run the engineering organization. Lead engineering”
Industry & Context.
drop in as a tech lead when a problem demands it; pick up an unfamiliar codebase; design and ship a non-trivial change; run an incident; reason end-to-end about the business
on-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
15+ years of engineering experience, 6+ years of people management at a pre-IPO startup, scale-up or frontier tech company, at least 2 years of managing managers, IC track record before management, run an engineering organization of 30+ with managers and senior engineers reporting in, hands-on at the Tech Lead level, write the doc that aligns three teams, Deep technical credibility in at least one area, Cross-functional to your core, business-fluent, reason end-to-end about unit economics, product strategy, GTM, and customer outcomes, Track record of building and growing teams, hired senior engineers others wanted to work with, grown managers under you who became great in their own right, set up career growth and performance practices that didn’t require constant maintenance
Nice to Have
Based in Stockholm or London or ready to relocate
What You'll Do.
Run the engineering organization
Own the business outcomes
Set technical direction
drive the design docs
architectural decisions
Shape engineering culture
Build the operating model
Own outcomes beyond engineering
make the company’s biggest calls
translate them back into engineering work
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
low-ego collaboration; work with product; work seamlessly across design, product, and go-to-market; bring people along
Communication Scope
write the doc that aligns three teams; business-fluent
Full Job Description
TL;DR Most engineering leadership roles ask you to trade the craft for the title. This one doesn’t. We’re hiring engineering managers who run organizations of 30+ and still know what their strongest engineers are working on this week. You’ll think end-to-end about the business, lead a workforce of humans and AI agents that’s rewriting what an engineering org even looks like, and stay close enough to the code to drop in as a tech lead when a problem demands it. WHY LOVABLE? Lovable lets anyone and everyone build software with any language. From solopreneurs to Fortune 100 teams, millions of people use Lovable to transform raw ideas into real products — fast. We’re at the forefront of a foundational shift in software creation, which means you have an unprecedented opportunity to change the way the digital world works. Lovable-built applications and websites are visited hundreds of millions of times a month, and our enterprise footprint is compounding fast. And we’re just getting started. We’re a small, talent-dense team building a generation-defining company from Stockholm. We value extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We seek out people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world. WHAT THIS ROLE IS AND WHAT IT ISN’T - It is a senior engineering leadership role with scope. You’ll run an organization that spans product, platform, and applied AI - with other managers, senior engineers, and AI agents reporting in - and you’ll be accountable for what that organization ships, how it operates, and the business outcomes it drives. - It is still close enough to the work that you can drop into a Tech Lead role on a hard problem when the situation demands it. We don’t measure leadership IC time as a percentage. We measure it as the ability to pick up the work and ship at the bar you’re asking of your team. - It isn’t a role for managers who think of themselves as engineering-adjacent. You need to be credible in code, design, and
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