Engineering Manager - Delivery Experience Backend Team

Are you excited about making a big impact in the e-commerce logistics sector?

The Delivery Experience area is searching for an Engineering Manager to lead a backend team of 4 people, including backend engineers and testers.

Quick Facts

• Strategic Transformation: Lead the evolution of a critical integration platform, including the migration of selected services from .NET/Azure to a strategic JVM and GCP stack.
• High-Impact Domain: Work at the core of the logistics and integration ecosystem. The team’s services are the foundational layer for the carrier platform strategy, reducing cross-team dependencies and carrier onboarding time.
• Innovative Integrations: Manage and develop key APIs for the delivery network, enabling external partners to integrate with infrastructure such as parcel lockers. Oversee hybrid integrations that connect multiple carriers.
• Business & Tech Synergy: Bridge business and technology, translate complex business expectations into technical solutions, and represent the organization in technical discussions with external partners.

Working Model

• Flexible working hours in a hybrid model (4/1), with start times between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
• 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Team based in Warsaw.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute the strategic migration of microservices from .NET to JVM/Kotlin/GCP without disrupting ongoing operations.
• Manage, mentor, and support a backend engineering team through a major technology stack transition.
• Maintain existing integration APIs and develop features for incoming carriers and new business requests.
• Translate business stakeholder needs for the engineering team and ensure technical deliverables align with business expectations.
• Lead technical discussions and negotiations with business partners.
• Support daily team operations, including on-call duties and hands-on technical guidance.

Requirements

• Strong backend development background in .NET or Java and enthusiasm for leading a transformation toward the JVM ecosystem.
• Experience planning, managing, and executing complex system migrations or architectural overhauls.
• Strong business acumen and ability to turn high-level business needs into actionable technical tasks.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence representing the team in technical discussions.
• Willingness to be hands-on when necessary.
• Product-oriented mindset and proven experience maintaining and scaling critical APIs.
• Fluency in Polish and English at B2 level.

Benefits

• Annual bonus based on annual performance and company results.
• Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on restricted stock units.
• Well-located offices with equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, green terraces, and modern work tools.
• 16-inch or 14-inch MacBook Pro, or a corresponding Dell with Windows, plus necessary accessories.
• Cafeteria-plan fringe benefits, including medical, sports, lunch packages, insurance, and purchase vouchers.
• Job-related English classes.
• Training budget, inter-team tourism, hackathons, an internal learning platform, and a volunteering day off.
• Social events.

Work Environment

• Work with experienced specialists in a team focused on knowledge and experience sharing.
• Autonomy in team organization, continuous development, and technology choices.
• Internal self-service ecosystem and tools including Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Modern AI tools to automate repetitive work and support development of new and existing services.
• Opportunity to build solutions used by millions of customers.
• Work at scale: over 1,000 microservices, the Hermes open-source data bus with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production machine learning.
• Opportunities to participate in industry conferences, technology communities, blogs, podcasts, guilds, and an internal technology conference.