Engineering Manager

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours. Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing. As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.About the Role  As a Principal Engineering Manager at ABBYY, you will lead two backend feature teams while remaining deeply hands-on in technical decision-making and architectural leadership. This role uniquely blends people leadership, delivery ownership, and principal-level engineering influence, ensuring the development of high-quality, scalable backend systems that power ABBYY’s intelligent automation platform.  You will play a critical role in shaping engineering culture, driving technical excellence, and enabling teams to deliver impactful, reliable solutions at scale.  Key Responsibilities  People & Team Leadership  Lead, mentor, and grow two backend feature teams (~8 engineers total)  Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations  Partner with Recruiting and HR to hire top talent and build scalable onboarding and progression frameworks  Foster a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering excellence  Technical Strategy & Architecture  Act as a principal-level technical authority across backend systems  Drive architectural decisions across technologies including .NET (C#), Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare Workers  Define and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and deployment best practices  Serve as the escalation point for complex technical and architectural challenges  Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration  Partner closely with Product Management to refine roadmaps, define scope, and deliver predictable outcomes  Monitor team velocity, remove blockers, and ensure consistent delivery execution  Collaborate with Platform Engineering and SRE teams on SLAs, observability, reliability, and cost optimization  Champion responsible, effective use of AI-assisted development workflows across teams  Qualifications  Required  10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams  Deep expertise in .NET (C#) and Node.js in production environm...