Engineering Manager, Core Systems

Overview

Ready to make travel easier for millions? Airalo is the world’s first and largest eSIM store, helping travellers stay connected seamlessly in over 200 countries and regions.

We trust our teams to take ownership, put customers first, and do work that has a real impact every day.

What’s in it for you? Airalo offers team members a range of perks, including remote work, generous PTO, wellness and learning allowances, and, of course, our annual Airalo Away retreat. Learn more about our benefits here; Benefits.

Hi, I’m Daniele, VP of Engineering at Airalo! Engineering drives Airalo’s eSIM platform. We build the product that lets millions of people connect instantly across the globe. The challenges are exciting: high-scale systems, carrier integrations, and products spanning both B2C and B2B.

What matters most to us is creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. Real ownership, autonomy, and a direct link between what you ship and business outcomes are key. You’ll work with smart, motivated people who take their craft seriously. If you want to build things that matter at global scale, this is where you do it.

About the Role

Airalo’s fully remote Engineering team is growing. In this role, you’ll tackle complex technical challenges across our product ecosystem, helping build, innovate, and scale the platform that keeps millions of travellers connected worldwide.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Core Systems team, a dedicated group building essential internal tools as part of our B2C department. In this role, you will help us scale, improve organizational transparency, provide career development, mentorship, and honest feedback for our engineers.

Using your varying technical backgrounds and interests, you will drive and provide general technical direction and oversight. You will keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology excellence in the company in the related domain
• Extend and improve engineering best practices in the teams
• Maintain and improve a collaborative environment, commit to driving projects to completion creatively
• Motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
• Ensure that the team delivers high quality products and solutions by following best practices, e.g. testing, observability, etc.
• Build teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Work with your engineers and/or product managers to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products
• Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds

Must-haves

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on technical experience in cloud-native environments, demonstrating the ability to contribute to planning, drive technical decisions, and perform high-quality code reviews
• Minimum 2 years of experience in leading a team and guiding them through their career development
• Experience in guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Expertise in building and refactoring scalable customer-centric systems, shared SDKs, or internal enablement platforms
• Strong understanding of application security practices
• Good knowledge in AWS services (S3, Lambda, SQS, Security, Aurora, EKS)
• Experience with Docker
• Knowledge and experience with Unit Testing/Feature Testing/Mocking
• Good communication skills and fluency in English

Good to have

• Prior work experience in telecommunications and network infrastructure
• Knowledge of eSIM and GSMA related technologies and services
• Expertise in building internal tooling or integrations for cross-departmental engineering teams
• Expertise in building or distributing shared SDKs across all three client platforms: web, iOS, and Android

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please apply via the link. Please note that to be considered for this role, you must reside in and be fully eligible to work in either the UK or Spain. Proof of a valid right to work in one of these two countries will be required.

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We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this opportunity. Airalo is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity, equity & inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations upon request for individuals with disabilities throughout our job interview process.