Technical Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Technical Lead (Infrastructure: DBA + Unix/Linux)

Description

Lead the Infrastructure (DBA + Unix/Linux) team delivering operational and engineering outcomes for critical services and vendor-underpinned platforms. Own end-to-end team delivery, drive improvements in monitoring/alerting and performance across infrastructure and databases, and establish operational/engineering standards (documentation, peer review, quality controls, runbooks, change practices). Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to build capability and foster continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own team delivery end-to-end: demand intake, prioritisation, execution, and reporting

• Drive monitoring/alerting and performance improvements across infrastructure and databases

• Establish and uphold engineering/operational standards (documentation, peer review, quality controls, runbooks, change practices) and measure outcomes to improve team performance

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to uplift engineers into a high-performing infrastructure function

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement across the team

Requirements

• 3+ years leading engineers/technical specialists and providing technical direction in an enterprise environment

• Proven experience transforming a team into a high-performing function

• Strong DBA (Oracle and Postgres) and/or Unix/Linux skills

• Proven experience maintaining highly available, low-latency systems in a regulated industry (preferably banking, fintech, or insurance)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (performance troubleshooting, stability, capacity, incident analysis)

• Fluency in written and spoken English; comfortable working in a multicultural/global environment

• Working experience in Agile methodologies

• Ability to work independently and within a diverse team environment

• Strong documentation, collaboration, and ownership mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling and practices (e.g., AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry or equivalents)

• Understanding of financial services compliance and risk management requirements

Benefits

• Relocation package (4500 PLN total value), paid in three installments (1500 PLN per month) if your permanent presence in the office is mandatory and you need to relocate from another city

• Extended medical care (over 2000 medical facilities in Poland, 80 in Kraków) for you and your family

• Multisport Benefit card

• Life insurance