Engineering Manager | Domains

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 Hostinger We 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 Team Management: Provide mentorship, allocate tasks, conduct performance evaluations, and lead hiring processes Coaching & Growth: Help each engineer grow, giving regular feedback and building clear development paths Roadmap Alignment: Actively participate in planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions, ensuring the team's work stays aligned with overall business objectives Customer Impact: 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 Delivery Ownership: Own delivery discipline for the team - predictable execution, clear release cadence, multi-vendor integration timelines, and a backlog that shrinks instead of grows Technical Collaboration: Contribute to discussions on the technical direction of systems supporting domain registrations and management, translating decisions into team plans and priorities Code Review: Take part in code reviews to help maintain quality and standards, working alongside senior engineers Collaboration: Work closely with other leads and team managers to ensure effective cross-functional communication Continuous Improvement: 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 Problem Resolution: Support the team in resolving technical challenges and act as a point of escalation for delivery and people issues Your expertise and experience Experience: At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience and 2+ years in a leadership role Delivery Track Record: A track record of improving team delivery - throughput, predictability, or time-to-ship - on a previous team Customer & Business Mindset: You think in terms of customer outcomes and business impact - you talk in conversion, revenue, and user outcomes, not just tickets closed AI-Native: Hands-on daily use of AI/agentic engineering tools, with an eagerness to spread those practices across the team Leadership: Strong leadership skills with a genuine focus on fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-trust team environment Soft Skills: Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders, a proactive attitude, and a focus on results Technical Fluency: 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 Production Operations: Good background in incident management, on-call practices, and applying observability tooling Curious Mind: A continuous learner who stays updated with the latest industry and people-leadership trends Team Spirit: Team-spirited, proactive, and able to work in a fast-paced environment Comfort with Ambiguity: "Embracing the unknown" is a concept that doesn't intimidate you Nice-to-have Domain Knowledge: Good understanding of how domains technically operate CloudOps Experience: Previous hands-on work or leadership experience running cloud Meet your team The Domains team runs the systems that let millions of people register, manage, and renew domains every day. Domains are also the connecting layer across Hostinger's product suite - you need one to launch a website, set up email, or bring almost any other product to life - so our work touches nearly every part of the business. We manage over 9 million domains and are core to Hostinger's mission of helping people succeed online faster and easier. You'll work closely with the Domains team - engineers, product managers, designers - while collaborating cross-functionally with other company teams and external partners, aligning priorities and making sure decisions translate into a better experience for our customers. Benefits you’ll love 🚀 360 Growth: We provide limitless learning opportunities : access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, feedback culture , digital libraries, and industry-leading subscriptions. Advance your career with internal mobility, and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success. 🎯 Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms, whether from the comfort of home or anywhere in the world. With a home office budget, you can elevate your workspace. Enjoy the flexibility to manage your schedule while bringing your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 💪 Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with company-provided sick days, 20 paid suspension days, Headspace subscriptions, and recharge leave. Participate in wellbeing-dedicated events and simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness. 🎉 Work hard - play hard: Celebrate your achievements with company events like Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-building experiences, and workations. Celebrate life’s big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations. Compensation Competitive salary from €7,000 gross/month , depending on your experience and skills. We’re always looking for experienced talent to raise the bar. If you’re excited about the role but the listed salary range doesn’t align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply - we’re open to adjusting compensation based on the impact and value you bring. Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey 🚀 Three. Two. Onboard