Engineering Manager | Remote | Europe
The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.
n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.
Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 220 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:
Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
Earned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
Been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)
Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation
That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.
We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.
🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving AI-native world - developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment. This is a first-line engineering leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, but whose real strength is building teams: empowering engineers on their growth path, aligning stakeholders, and helping people move with confidence as technology, customer needs, and opportunities evolve quickly around them.
We’re hiring Engineering Managers across multiple product and platform areas, and during the interview process you’ll be matched to a team based on your strengths and what you’re most excited to work on. Learn more about the teams and their focus areas here: https://www.notion.so/n8n/Discover-Engineering-n8n-1b65b6e0c94f80688f43d9bbc76023c3
Build an empowered, high-performing team
Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.
Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.
Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n.
Create clarity and confidence as the landscape evolves
Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.
Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.
Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.
Drive execution with speed, judgment, and alignment
Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.
Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Lead with technical credibility
Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.
Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.
Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.
REQUIREMENTS
Must-haves
🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization. You’ve led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health.
🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.
⚙️ Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
🛠️ Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.
🔄 Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.
Nice-to-haves
🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.
🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest: You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.
🤖 AI product exposure: You’ve worked near AI-native products, AI features, or teams exploring how AI is changing product experiences and engineering execution.
Why join us?
At n8n, you’ll join at a moment where strong engineering leadership can have outsized impact. We’re building in a space that is moving quickly, and we see that as an opportunity: to help teams stay ambitious, grounded, and effective while shaping what great engineering leadership looks like in an AI-native company. You’ll play a key role in building teams that empower others, act with integrity, move with speed and efficiency, and think bigger than incremental improvement. In a remote-first company growing fast, your work will directly influence how we scale our engineering organization and build the future of automation.
n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
Our company language is English.
You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).
Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.
Benefits
Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Health & wellness 🩺 –
Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
Future planning 💰 –
Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Financial security 🛡️ –
Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.