Senior Engineering Manager, Proton
€83-106k
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Be an early applicant
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€83-106k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and growing engineering teams of 10+ engineers in a fast-paced product environment
- Proven success managing fully remote and/or distributed engineering teams, with strong operational and communication practices
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product and Design on strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution. Comfortable challenging assumptions, driving alignment, and translating ambiguity into high-quality product delivery
- Strong technical foundation in mobile engineering, with deep expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and/or Rust
- Hands on technical leader with experience in mobile architecture, debugging, release management, app performance, and engineering trade offs
- Experience building and scaling consumer mobile products with 1M+ monthly active users (MAU)
- A track record of delivering measurable impact, with clear examples of improving metrics such as user growth, retention, release cadence, product quality, reliability, engineering productivity, or team effectiveness
- Experience operating in a high-velocity mobile development environment, with a strong focus on release predictability, engineering excellence, app quality, and disciplined execution
- Direct exposure to features such as presence, channels, notifications, sync, low-latency messaging, or engagement loops
- Track record improving release cadence, crash rate, ANR rate, app-store review quality, or release confidence
- Experience hiring and developing engineering teams
- Experience spanning both webapp/desktop and mobile (iOS and Android teams), or client plus adjacent backend ownership
- Demonstrated ability to balance speed, quality, and high engineering standard in fast paced environment
Desirable
- Rust experience
- Experience in collaboration, social or other real-time communication products
- Background in privacy-first, security-focused, or mission-driven products
- Experience with end-to-end encryption, secure communications
- Experience in community scale or multi device products where reliability and sync are critical
- Experience building high impact open source solutions
- Experience in applying AI in sustainable manner in the development and test process
What the job involves
- Proton is growing fast as more people worldwide seek greater control over their online privacy. To support that growth, we're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team on one of our upcoming products
- You'll join the engineering leadership team, helping turn technical strategy into execution and contributing to a more privacy centric internet. We're looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong mobile focus
- That means a track record of building and scaling customer facing mobile applications, in B2C or B2B, for millions of users on iOS and/or Android
- Beyond technical depth, our Engineering Managers bring strong people management skills, clear communication, a business mindset, and genuine empathy for customers
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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