Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role

We're hiring an Engineering Manager (IV) to lead one of our Kraków engineering teams within Global Money Movement. Depending on team needs at the time of hire, you will lead one of three teams:

• Money Movement (MoMo), which orchestrates the movement of money across the global payment network and owns integrations with external banking and payment partners
• Financial Instruments (MoFi), which builds and operates the financial-instruments platform
• User Financial Accounts (UFA / Accounts), which is building a new general-purpose ledger platform—the foundation for user wallets and balances

These platforms run on AWS and support high-throughput, high-availability services that are critical to products and regulatory obligations.

As the manager of one of these teams, you will own delivery, technical direction, and team health. You will lead a team of roughly 6–12 engineers, including senior and, on some teams, staff-level individual contributors; set long-term strategy in partnership with product and platform leadership; and represent your team to senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Seattle-based partner teams. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager based in Kraków.

To succeed, you should operate with a high degree of autonomy and judgment, be comfortable owning an executive-visible mandate, and be as motivated by growing engineers and building a healthy team culture as by technical strategy and delivery. You should enjoy tackling complex, ambiguous problems, make sound trade-offs, and have the backbone to defend them.

You Will

• Own all aspects of people management for your team, including hiring, team structure, performance management, career development, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, coaching, and growth opportunities for engineers through Senior and Staff levels
• Set and drive multi-quarter technical and delivery strategy in partnership with product and platform leadership, adapting it as priorities evolve
• Lead complex initiatives, including new-market launches, platform migrations, or scaling core money-movement services, while aligning leadership and stakeholders on progress, milestones, and risk
• Partner with senior and staff engineers on architecture and technical direction, maintaining a high bar for correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability in regulated, high-availability financial systems
• Represent your team across Product, banking and payment partners, and Seattle partner teams; influence without authority and escalate when necessary
• Champion engineering and operational best practices by defining metrics and processes for delivery health, quality, and on-call excellence, and leading cross-team process improvements

You Have

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software development experience, including backend development with technologies such as Java/Kotlin or Go, and familiarity with relational and non-relational data stores
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a strong track record on platform or distributed-systems teams
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems on public cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, or GCP, ideally in a regulated or high-availability domain
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers through Senior and Staff level, and developing or coaching emerging leaders
• Experience leading across two or more sub-teams, or through tech leads and emerging managers
• Experience hiring and technically interviewing candidates across levels
• Strong stakeholder management and communication across time zones, plus the judgment and backbone to make and defend hard trade-offs

You will lead a team building platforms that move money across borders and manage customer financial accounts, with real autonomy, executive visibility, and strong, domain-deep teams to grow and lead. It is high-stakes, high-ownership leadership at the core of money-movement infrastructure.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically PLN 412,000–PLN 463,000 gross per annum. Equity is part of the total compensation plan.

Benefits

• 26 days paid holiday and additional company days off
• Equity in the company — RSUs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
• Open leave policy: flexible vacation days with manager approval
• Commuting-to-work expense
• Health, dental, and coverage: LUX MED VIP for employee and family
• Life insurance
• Mental health and family planning benefits
• Continuing education
• Equipment of your choice
• Referral bonuses

Connected Work Culture

Under current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and hybrid-work expectations may change over time.