Engineering Manager | Domains Team

Join the team building an AI-first company.Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles.Your role at HostingerWe are seeking a skilled Engineering Manager with a passion for building great teams and helping engineers do their best work. In this role, you will lead a team of exceptional developers building our domain registration and management systems, keeping the customer experience and delivery discipline at the center of how the team works - for one of the industry's largest domain registrars, managing over 9 million domains. Curious to learn more? Connect with your team: Klaudijus Januitis, Head of Domains Your day-to-day

• Provide mentorship, allocate tasks, conduct performance evaluations, and lead hiring processes
• Help each engineer grow, giving regular feedback and building clear development paths
• Actively participate in planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions, ensuring the team's work stays aligned with overall business objectives
• Keep the customer experience front and center - registration, renewal, and domain continuity flows should stay reliable, fast, and low-friction for millions of customers worldwide
• Own delivery discipline for the team - predictable execution, clear release cadence, multi-vendor integration timelines, and a backlog that shrinks instead of grows
• Contribute to discussions on the technical direction of systems supporting domain registrations and management, translating decisions into team plans and priorities
• Take part in code reviews to help maintain quality and standards, working alongside senior engineers
• Work closely with other leads and team managers to ensure effective cross-functional communication
• Identify areas for process optimization across the team's engineering practices, using customer and delivery metrics to decide where to invest - always with the goal of a faster, more reliable experience for our customers
• Support the team in resolving technical challenges and act as a point of escalation for delivery and people issues

• At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience and 2+ years in a leadership role
• A track record of improving team delivery - throughput, predictability, or time-to-ship - on a previous team
• You think in terms of customer outcomes and business impact - you talk in conversion, revenue, and user outcomes, not just tickets closed
• Hands-on daily use of AI/agentic engineering tools, with an eagerness to spread those practices across the team
• Strong leadership skills with a genuine focus on fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-trust team environment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders, a proactive attitude, and a focus on results
• A solid engineering background across backend (PHP, Laravel, Go, GCP, MySQL, Redis, Kubernetes) and working familiarity with frontend technologies - enough to earn credibility with the team and engage confidently in technical discussions across the stack, without needing to own deep architecture decisions yourself
• Good background in incident management, on-call practices, and applying observability tooling
• A continuous learner who stays updated with the latest industry and people-leadership trends
• Team-spirited, proactive, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• "Embracing the unknown" is a concept that doesn't intimidate you

Nice to have

• Good understanding of how domains technically operate
• Previous hands-on work or leadership experience running cloud

• 360° Growth: You'll never stop learning here. Get access to and CoachHub, go to global conferences, and borrow from our physical and digital libraries. Depending on your location, you can mentor or be mentored throughReforge . PeopleTesoXchange ,give each other open feedback , and take on new projects as their skills grow.share what they know
• Freedom & responsibility: Work where you do your best work: our offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Jakarta, or Luxembourg, your home, or anywhere in the world. You plan your own day and own your results, and good ideas go live fast.
• Wellness simplified: Your wellbeing comes first. You get time off to recharge, a subscription, and events focused on wellbeing. Depending on your location, you also get health insurance from day one, a gym membership, regular health checks, and clubs for sports, arts, and hobbies.Headspace
• Work hard – play hard: We celebrate wins together at & Summerfest, Town Halls, team-buildings, and workations. Meet the Client sessions connect you directly with the people you build for. Milestones outside work matter too, so we celebrate weddings, new parenthood, and graduations with you.Winterfest