Job Description
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Delivery Merchant Launch team in Bucharest. Your team will build and operate the systems that help high-quality merchants discover Bolt and reach first value fast – from optimizing acquisition surfaces and self-signup flows to automating operational readiness and menu publishing. This is a role with clear, measurable impact on merchant acquisition costs and a strong influence on how growth-related product and engineering decisions are scaled and executed across Bolt.
With over 200 million customers in 53+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it’s all thanks to our people.
We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.
Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of high-performing engineers in Bucharest responsible for the critical “first mile” of the Bolt Delivery ecosystem. You’ll tackle complex architectural and scaling challenges, from building frictionless, self-service onboarding journeys to engineering the automated pipelines that transform a new merchant lead into a live, revenue-generating partner in record time.
Your team will collaborate closely with Product and Operations leaders to drive a data-informed roadmap that directly optimizes merchant acquisition costs and accelerates market velocity. You’ll guide the team toward a strategic vision of “onboarding at scale,” ensuring high engineering standards and robust system reliability for a platform that serves over 6 million customers and 50 thousand merchants internationally. By automating operational readiness, your team will be the primary engine enabling Bolt Food and Bolt Market to scale seamlessly into new territories.
Organising the team’s work, improving processes and collaboration, and ensuring high quality of deliverables. Driving application architecture and technical excellence. Collaborating closely with stakeholders across teams to ensure smooth project delivery. Holding regular one-to-ones, coaching, and mentoring engineers to support their growth. Preparing performance reviews, goal setting, training plans, budget allocation, headcount planning, and actively participating in recruitment. Contributing to planning, roadmap discussions, and providing constructive feedback on future initiatives.
You have excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal. You’re comfortable with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Scala, or Java. You have 2+ years managing high-performing engineering teams. You have 5+ years of hands-on software development experience and a deep understanding of writing readable, testable, maintainable, and performant code. You have a proven ability to get things done, set a clear technical vision, establish effective engineering processes, and make data-driven decisions.
Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!
Play a direct role in shaping the user experience of one of Europe’s leading platforms. Impact millions of customers and partners in 600+ cities across 53 countries Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode with a minimum of 2 days in the office each week to foster strong connections and teamwork Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks
#LI-Hybrid
