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title: 'Engineering Manager at Builders at Gigs'
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# Engineering Manager at Builders at Gigs

- **Company:** Builders at Gigs
- **Location:** Europe
- **Posted:** 2025-06-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://gigs.com/careers?gh_jid=4607940101

## Job description

## About Gigs

At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services—a platform that lets tech companies embed global connectivity into their products effortlessly.

Just as Stripe lets any business add a payment button in seconds, Gigs empowers platforms to weave in connectivity—bridging the traditional world of telecom with modern tech. From fintechs launching mobile services to HR platforms offering work phone plans, we automate provisioning and remove telecom complexity.

Our team of around 150 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, bringing together early-stage engineers, product builders, and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify. We’re tackling deep technical and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly seamless.

If you’re driven by curiosity, creativity, and the chance to shape the future of telecom, we’d love to hear from you.

Things We Care About

We are building in a highly complex space and tackling a massive problem. We want people who lean in when things get hard.

- Speed. We move and we ship. We set bold deadlines and treat every week like it matters.
- Ownership. If you see something broken, fix it. We don't wait for permission.
- Customer Obsession. Our customers' product is our product.
- Ambiguity. We're building frontier technology in a complex domain. You'll need sound judgement and good instincts to make decisions without complete information.
- First principles. We don't ask how things have been done before. We ask why they were done that way at all.

## The Role

Engineering Managers at Gigs are responsible for enabling a high-performing group of engineers to ship impactful work, grow their skills, and collaborate cross-functionally. This is a hands-on leadership role — you will guide technical execution while helping shape the team’s long-term direction

We are building a modern connectivity platform that powers embedded telecom experiences and the challenges are real: scaling APIs, abstracting telco complexity, and designing systems that are global from day one.

Currently, we are hiring Engineering Managers for multiple product engineering teams at Gigs. During the interview process we will figure out which team is the best fit for your experience, passion, and skills. The teams we are hiring for are:

- Foundation: Gigs’ first platform engineering team focusing on developer experience for other Gigs engineering teams, common infrastructure and internal tooling needs.
- AI Automation: Crafting a [customer service AI](https://gigs.com/operator) built for telecom.

## What You'll Do

- Lead, support, and grow a team of software engineers working on core parts of our platform
- Partner with Product and Design to define priorities, shape roadmaps, and deliver high-quality features
- Drive technical excellence — from architecture to code reviews to reliability
- Create a team environment that balances ambition, ownership, and continuous learning
- Ensure a sustainable and inclusive engineering culture where people thrive
- Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes to help scale the team thoughtfully
- Step into technical discussions with clarity and pragmatism when needed

## What We're Looking For

- 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams in high-growth, product-driven environments
- Strong technical background — you have shipped code at scale and can dive deep when needed
- A thoughtful approach to people management and a track record of growing and developing engineers
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and building clarity
- A clear communicator who brings cross-functional stakeholders together
- Bias for impact, balanced with high standards and good judgment
- Experience with modern product development practices (we use Go, Ruby, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GCP), including continuous delivery, observability, and infrastructure as code
- Ideally experience managing and working with remote and distributed teams
- Experience building API forward products (nice to have)

Salary Range:

- €/£135,000- €/£175,000

Work At Gigs

At Gigs, we value in-person collaboration. We believe the best ideas, decisions, and relationships are built when teams spend meaningful time together, and our culture is designed around that belief. We support flexibility where it makes sense. Some focused work can be done remotely, and not every role or week looks the same. You should expect regular time in one of our hubs, as well as occasional travel for team workshops, customer meetings, and Gigs Republic, our bi-annual company off-site. Our offices are designed to feel like home-inspired workspaces, with plants, thoughtful tools, and small, tight-knit teams that make collaboration feel natural, energizing, and effective.

## What We Offer

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan

Want to learn more about our benefits, hubs, and what it’s like to work at Gigs? Check out our [Careers](https://gigs.com/careers) page.

## About Builders at Gigs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gigs provides an operating system (OS) for embedded telecom, enabling any tech brand to offer mobile phone plans and connectivity through a single API and no-code tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in London, Berlin, and Amsterdam)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Hermann Frank (Co-founder, CEO) and Dennis Bauer (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Embedded Telecom / Connectivity Infrastructure (Technology, Information and Internet)
- **Target customers**: B2B – tech brands, digital platforms, and enterprises looking to embed mobile connectivity (phone plans, eSIMs, data) into their own products.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To make connectivity seamless, universally accessible, and affordable.

## Products & Services
- **Gigs OS (The Platform)**: A vertically integrated system acting as the "OS for Embedded Telecom." It combines network access, plan management, billing, taxes, compliance, and support into one API.
- **Connect**: A modular, no-code white-label hosted checkout for mobile plans, allowing customers to sign up, pay, and activate a SIM directly from their product.
- **API**: A single, developer-friendly telecom API that works across multiple carriers and global markets, allowing deep integration of connectivity into third-party products.
- **Dashboard**: A central "cockpit" for managing subscriptions, payments, devices, and analytics across multiple carriers and markets.
- **Operator (Agentic AI)**: An AI-powered customer service assistant built specifically for telecom, enabling self-service for common user requests.
- **Payments**: A fully integrated system for managing recurring billing, refunds, taxes, and payouts for mobile services.
- **Compliance & Taxes**: Automated tax calculation, collection, and remittance, with Gigs acting as the Carrier of Record.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$97.0M** (as of Dec 2024). Annual Revenue estimated at **$2.0M** (per LinkedIn data).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Google’s Gradient Ventures (led Series A), Y Combinator (W21). Individual backers include the CEOs of Uber, DoorDash, and OpenAI.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **63.6% year-over-year** to approximately 133 employees. Active job postings have increased by **261.9% year-over-year**, signaling aggressive scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical Integration**: Offers a single system for network access, billing, compliance, and support, replacing the need for ten different vendors.
- **Carrier of Record**: Gigs handles all telecom compliance and tax remittance, removing a massive operational burden for clients.
- **Multi-Market, Multi-Carrier**: Provides access to premium global mobile networks through one unified platform and API.
- **Developer Experience**: Focuses on performance, consistency, and world-class documentation via an OpenAPI spec, making it easy for engineering teams to adopt.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Extracting services from a Ruby on Rails monolith into a more distributed system (using Go), and expanding the "Operator" AI agent for customer support.
- **Go-to-Market**: Scaling enterprise sales with roles like "Founding Enterprise AE - Gigs for Work, Europe" and "Strategic Partner Manager," targeting large enterprises and fintech partners.
- **Global Reach**: Expanding its physical hubs (SF, London, Berlin, Amsterdam) and hiring across 14+ countries to support a global customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Flexibility**: Described as a remote-first, distributed company with a focus on in-person collaboration. Employees can work from home, co-working spaces, or company "Pads" (clubhouses with free bedrooms for visiting team members).
- **Work Environment**: Bi-annual offsites for the whole company. Highly talented and experienced team, with alumni from Stripe, Adyen, Revolut, and Uber.
- **Engineering Focus**: A modern tech stack (Ruby on Rails, Go, Next.js/TypeScript, GCP, Terraform, PubSub). Engineers are encouraged to focus on performance, careful abstractions, and building a great API.
- **Global Team**: Team members are based in 14 countries across US and European timezones, offering a truly international work environment.
- **Perks**: Travel perks to facilitate co-located work, ergonomic workspaces in hubs, and a culture that values craft and growth.

## Sources
1. [gigs.com](https://gigs.com/)
2. [gigs.com/careers](https://gigs.com/careers)
3. [gigs.com/engineering](https://gigs.com/engineering)
4. [linkedin.com/company/meetgigs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetgigs)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/gigs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gigs/jobs)

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