Senior Engineering Manager
This is a high-impact leadership role for a competitive engineering professional who wants to challenge industry giants by building a superior, privacy-focused analytics platform. It combines technical oversight of a 14-person team with strategic infrastructure scaling in a fully remote, open-source environment. The role is ideal for those who value execution speed and ethical technology over the corporate status quo.
Matomo
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · Posted 2 May 2026
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Overview
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About Matomo
Matomo is a mid-sized employer working in software & analytics, based in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Requirements & Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a team of 14 Full Stack and QA engineers
- Execute complex, multi-stream technical strategies with clear outcomes
- Modernize platform architecture, including UI, APIs, and developer experience
- Optimize infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost
- Implement modern tooling and AI-assisted workflows to increase engineering throughput
Essential
- Proven track record of leading high-performance engineering teams in competitive tech environments
- Deep expertise in software engineering and infrastructure leadership
- Experience managing globally distributed and culturally diverse teams
- Ability to drive multi-stream initiatives from strategic planning to final execution
- Experience in performance management and setting high accountability standards
- Strong background in infrastructure scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Commitment to ethical, privacy-first technology and open-source values
Preferred
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and modern delivery practices
- Background in scaling enterprise-grade SaaS platforms
- Experience competing against large-scale analytics platforms like Google or Adobe
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Perks
Benefits & perks
- 100% Remote work environment
- Flexible working hours and schedule autonomy
- Opportunity to work on a leading open-source project
- Mission-driven work focused on data privacy and ethics
- Collaborative, global team culture
- Sustainable and profitable company growth
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