Engineering Manager

Quick Facts

• Lead a product engineering team focused on delivery performance, engineering quality, and team development.

Description

Lead an engineering team within a product environment, with responsibility for performance and delivery, people development, and engineering quality. You will partner with PO/PM and other engineering leaders to manage cross-team dependencies and ensure architectural alignment with the organization’s technical strategy. The role also emphasizes standards for development and testing, managing technical debt, using data-driven metrics, and promoting the use of AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Own performance and delivery outcomes; take action when goals are at risk.
• Build a cohesive team through trust, conflict resolution, and transparent communication.
• Manage people processes: regular 1:1s, development plans, career paths, performance support, periodic reviews, compensation reviews.
• Run the full employee lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, offboarding, and succession planning.
• Ensure knowledge flow, organize training, and remove process bottlenecks.
• Collaborate tightly with PO/PM, other Engineering Managers, and other teams; coordinate inter-team dependencies and projects.
• Ensure engineering architecture and solutions (including security and dependencies) align with the organization’s technical strategy.
• Maintain standards and best practices for building and testing; ensure quality, documentation, and non-functional requirements; proactively manage technical debt.
• Maintain operational stability through incident response coordination and post-mortem analyses that lead to real improvements.
• Make decisions using data; use delivery, quality, and stability metrics to improve processes.
• Implement and promote AI tooling in engineering work.
• Foster feedback culture, continuous improvement, and experimentation while balancing delivery with stability and quality.
• Perform formal manager duties (e.g., approving leave) and continuously grow leadership skills.

Requirements

• Experience in an Engineering Manager (or similar) role leading an IT product team.
• Solid understanding of SDLC; ability to lead team processes and discuss development, architecture, quality, and technical debt with engineers.
• Experience with modern engineering practices at a level that supports good questions and sound decisions.
• Experience managing delivery and resolving delivery issues.
• Data-driven mindset using metrics to improve team work.
• Experience leading people: 1:1s, development, feedback, performance reviews, recruitment, and conflict resolution.
• Practical experience rolling out AI in the team, including choosing tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude) and establishing best practices.
• Ability to collaborate with PO/PM and other teams and manage dependencies.
• Knowledge of Scrum and Agile; teams are agile and use elements rather than pure Scrum.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Remote or hybrid work model (your choice).
• Cafeteria benefits system (including Multisport card, cinema tickets, travel office vouchers).
• Access to eTutor (including online English lessons).
• Private medical care (Luxmed).
• Team integration events.
• Training budget.
• Shoper store offer for 1 PLN.
• Paid employee referral program.
• Group insurance.
• ZFŚS benefits (including co-financing for rest and holiday bonuses).