Engineering Director

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 https://www.hostinger.com/principles   YOUR ROLE AT HOSTINGER As Engineering Director, you'll report directly to our VP of Engineering and work closely with our Head of Delivery, owning an important “Shared Services / Platform” area of our product department. You will be expected to raise the bar for how teams are run, and take direct ownership of teams and problems as they're handed to you. The “Shared Services / Platform” area consists of PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and Vue.js-heavy teams such as: Websites, Billing, Payments, Platform, and Internal Tools. The teams ensure we deliver shared capabilities once, enable and unblock our colleagues and commercial product teams to move faster.   YOUR DAY-TO-DAY • Hire, coach, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping them raise their own ambitions rather than settle for "business as usual" • Take direct ownership of underperforming teams or unresolved problems - roll up your sleeves and fix them yourself when needed. • Champion a "you build it, you own it" culture: full accountability from writing code through production - observability, incident response, postmortems, and learning from failure. • Partner with stakeholders across the business - product, other engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners - to make sure the right problems get addressed, not just the loudest ones. • Bring clarity and structure to a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment, without slowing it down. • Champion AI-assisted engineering across your teams, and help close any gaps in AI adoption. • Help define how outcome and impact - not just output - gets measured and communicated for platform and internal-facing teams, where the connection to revenue isn't always obvious.   YOUR EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience. • A track record of building and owning products and services in production over the long run. • Real comfort with, or strong openness to, PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Python, Node.JS http://node.js, GO, and/or Vue.js - true generalists who can pick up any stack, with the help of AI tools, tend to thrive here. • Genuine, active enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering; you're expected to pull your teams forward on adoption, not catch up to them. • Comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving processes, and fast-changing priorities. • A resilient, self-directed way of working - this is a senior, largely independent role without a large peer group at the same level. • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to give and take direct feedback. • Experience scaling up from a smaller company or startup is a plus, as is a background in digital, consumer-facing (B2C) product companies. • Excellent communication skills in English.   BENEFITS YOU'LL LOVE 🚀 360° Growth: You'll never stop learning here. Get access to Reforge https://www.reforge.com/ and CoachHub, go to global conferences, and borrow from our physical and digital libraries. Depending on your location, you can mentor or be mentored through TesoXchange https://tesoxchange.com/. People give each other open feedback https://www.hostinger.com/blog/reaching-your-peak/, share what they know https://www.hostinger.com/blog/learning-culture/, and take on new projects as their skills grow. 🎯 Freedom & responsibility: Work where you do your best work: our offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Jakarta, or Luxembourg, your home, or anywhere in the world. You plan your own day and own your results, and good ideas go live fast. 💪 Wellness simplified: Your wellbeing comes first. You get time off to recharge, a Headspace https://www.headspace.com/ subscription, and events focused on wellbeing. Depending on your location, you also get health insurance from day one, a gym membership, regular health checks, and clubs for sports, arts, and hobbies. 🎉 Work hard – play hard: We celebrate wins together at Summerfest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPnIDaaq0jc & Winterfest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfytsnQyE2I, Town Halls, team-buildings, and workations. Meet the Client sessions connect you directly with the people you build for. Milestones outside work matter too, so we celebrate weddings, new parenthood, and graduations with you.   Compensation starts from €9,000 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 compensation range doesn't align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply — we're open to adjusting it 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