Engineering Manager Lisboa

Engineering Manager
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Engineering Manager
Location: Portugal – Lisboa, Coimbra, Porto, or Aveiro | Brazil – São Paulo
Ready to expand beyond traditional engineering management?
At Critical Links, we're changing the world by enabling the global workforce of tomorrow. As we grow, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager who wants to broaden their impact through
- on experience across product strategy architecture, engineering delivery, and product operations as they lead the way in delivering AI-enabled education platforms that work everywhere in the world – even in the most challenging environments of developing nations that may struggle with power, connectivity, and infrastructure. We’re enabling the youth of today in these developing nations to be part of the workforce of tomorrow by putting an AI-enabled digital learning experience at their fingertips regardless of these challenges.
This role offers broader scope than typical engineering delivery - perfect for someone ready to begin to influence technology directions beyond just coding and team leadership.
The Leadership Scope You'll Grow Into:
Lead frontend and backend teams while learning to shape product roadmaps
Make
-
- buy decisions that define product capabilities
Design deployment strategies and disaster recovery plans for
- critical systems
Drive infrastructure decisions ensuring 99. 9% uptime across distributed deployments
Bridge technical and business teams, translating between Sales promises and Engineering realities
Partner with our Senior Architect on R&D initiatives that become product features
Why This Role Accelerates Your Career:
Most Engineering Managers stay confined to specific team leadership with the goal of defined product delivery. Here, you'll work directly with our executive team and develop the complete skill set valued in senior technology leadership:
Product Strategy Experience: Shape what we build, not just how we build it
Infrastructure Architecture: Design systems that scale from data centers to
- powered schools
P&L Awareness: Your decisions directly impact revenue and costs, and you’ll learn how to assess and implement strategies to maximize impact and value
Executive Communication Skills: Develop ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders
You'll master these skills while working on two unique platforms:
C3 Micro-Cloud: Offline-first platform for
- limited schools
C3 Cloud Control: Cloud platform for global control of distributed systems requiring extreme optimization and
-
- use
What Makes You Ready for This Growth:
5+ years in Engineering Management with 8+ years in software development
Fluent in Portuguese and English (written and spoken) - essential for our global operations
Ability to inspire a team and lead by example
Hungry to expand beyond pure people management into product and infrastructure
Track record of making pragmatic technical decisions that result in solid product delivery
Comfortable with bringing clarity to ambiguity, responding to the unexpected, and wearing multiple hats to get things done
View constraints as puzzles to solve, not obstacles
Ready to own outcomes, not just deliverables
What We Offer:
Exposure to product strategy and infrastructure architecture beyond typical engineering management
Mentorship from experienced technology leaders
Real autonomy - your decisions shape product and company direction
Impact millions of students in underserved communities
Lead
- edge implementations including
- device AI
Build and grow a
- class engineering team
The Bottom Line:
If you're an Engineering Manager who's ready to stop watching from the sidelines while product and infrastructure decisions get made, this is your opportunity. You'll gain
- on experience across multiple technology domains that many Engineering Managers never get to touch.
Whether you've already worked across these domains or you're excited to expand into them, what matters most is your ability to navigate complex technical challenges in
- constrained environments.
Ready to expand beyond traditional engineering management? Let's talk.