Engineering Manager | Community | Remote-Europe

Your main goal will be to lead and grow our Community Engineering team so n8n can scale high-quality community-driven development across our ecosystem.

• Coach and support a team of 3 Community Engineers working across contributor support, reviews, bug fixing, and ecosystem quality.
• Bring clarity, focus, and accountability to a team with broad scope, varied work, and fast‑changing priorities.
• Help shape the team as it grows, including hiring, onboarding, and defining what strong performance looks like in this function.

• Build and refine the processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high‑quality code, nodes, and improvements.
• Identify friction in contributor workflows and make it easier for developers to contribute successfully to n8n.
• Increase the team’s leverage through automation, documentation, and scalable ways of working.

• Oversee how community pull requests, node submissions, and bug fixes are reviewed and supported.
• Ensure community contributions meet our standards for quality, consistency, maintainability, and smooth integration into the product.
• Step in hands‑on when needed to review code, unblock technical issues, or support complex contributor workflows.

• Partner closely with teams like Nodes to reduce the maintenance and support burden created by community contributions.
• Help contributors get timely, clear, and constructive feedback throughout the contribution process.
• Surface recurring contributor pain points and work with product and engineering teams to improve the developer experience.

• You’re inspired by open‑source products where the community doesn’t just use the product, but actively helps build it - and you’d love to lead the team that makes that contribution model work at scale.
• You enjoy leading generalist engineers whose work spans code, quality, contributor support, and process improvement.
• You’re energized by broad engineering problems that don’t sit neatly inside a traditional product roadmap.
• You care about helping external developers succeed and turning community contribution into real product impact.
• You’re good at bringing structure to ambiguous work without making it rigid or bureaucratic.
• You like staying close enough to the technical details to guide quality, unblock issues, and support your team hands‑on.
• You’d enjoy having visible influence across the product ecosystem, not just within one engineering team.

• Engineering management experience:
  You’ve managed engineers before and know how to coach, support, and grow technical ICs in a healthy, high‑trust environment.
• Broad technical credibility:
  You can read and discuss code comfortably, guide code reviews, and help your team navigate debugging, integrations, APIs, and engineering workflows.
• Hands‑on mindset:
  You’re willing to jump into the work when needed, whether that means reviewing PRs, unblocking technical issues, or improving team processes yourself.
• Open source or developer community experience:
  You understand how external contributors work and how to support them with the right balance of quality standards, responsiveness, and empathy.
• Git Hub and contribution workflow fluency:
  You’re comfortable with pull requests, forks, code review, and collaborative software development workflows.
• Systems thinking:
  You naturally spot bottlenecks, recurring issues, and process gaps, and you know how to turn them into scalable improvements.
• Experience in fast‑moving product environments:
  You’ve worked in startup or high‑growth settings where priorities evolve quickly and teams need to create structure as they scale.
• Strong n8n familiarity:
  You’ve used n8n at an advanced level and can quickly understand how contributors, nodes, and workflows fit into the product ecosystem.

• Dev Rel or Dev Ex background:
  You’ve worked in developer relations, developer experience, or another role supporting developers beyond your immediate team.
• Integrations or platform experience:
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