Engineering Manager

Tagvenue; Kraków; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking SaaS company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team in delivering high-quality software solutions. This role involves fostering a healthy engineering culture, improving processes, and collaborating closely with product managers. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software development experience, including 2 years in a leadership position, and holds strong communication skills in English. Competitive salary and flexible remote working options are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

24 paid days off

Private healthcare

Annual growth budget for books and courses

Quarterly company gatherings

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software developer.
• 2 years+ of proven experience leading a team of 5+ engineers.
• Strong technical fundamentals in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a backend team of 4–8 engineers and drive execution.
• Work with product managers to refine scope and plan delivery.
• Identify inefficiencies and lead continuous improvements.

Skills

Software development

Team leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication (English B2)

Job description

About the job

We are Tagvenue - a SaaS-enabled marketplace transforming how people discover and book venues worldwide, and how venue managers run their daily operations. We’re a team of capable, curious builders focused on solving real problems, elevating industry standards, and developing technology that scales globally. we grow, we’re not only expanding our marketplace across the UK, US, Australia, Singapore, and Canada - we’re also building a next-generation revenue engine powered by automation, system logic, and data-driven decision-making. Our aim is to make every interaction on the platform smarter, more accurate, and more efficient, while helping venue managers operate more seamlessly and profitably.

We’re now looking for an Engineering Manager who will play a pivotal role in how we deliver: raising engineering maturity, strengthening architecture, and accelerating velocity across our core systems and product teams.

Role Mission

We are looking for a leader who will enable the engineering team to consistently deliver high-quality software by creating a healthy engineering culture, driving execution, and developing engineers to perform at their best. Own the delivery, execution, and leadership of an engineering team responsible for the core systems that power bookings, payments, marketplace logic, and venue manager operations.
You will ensure that the team consistently delivers high-quality software, makes sound architectural decisions, and operates with clarity, accountability, and speed.

As an Engineering Manager at Tagvenue, you will:

Lead delivery and raise excellence

• Manage and develop a backend team of 4–8 engineers, fostering ownership, clarity, and accountability
• Drive predictable delivery: sprint outcomes, velocity, planning, and execution
• Remove blockers quickly and ensure consistent delivery of high-impact work

Strengthen technical depth and architecture quality

• Work closely with our Principal Developer to set backend standards and improve system quality
• Facilitate architecture discussions in areas like payments, booking flows, and multi logic
• Make pragmatic trade-offs and prevent over-engineering

Partner with Product to build what matters

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to refine scope, prioritise effectively, and plan delivery
• Translate business goals into clear engineering work
• Ensure the team understands customer value, costs, and system constraints

Coach, mentor, and elevate engineers

• Provide structured feedback and clear growth paths
• Empower seniors to take ownership of complex initiatives
• Build a culture that balances psychological safety with strong expectations

Improve processes and operational stability

• Influence how we estimate, test, release, and monitor
• Identify inefficiencies and lead continuous improvements
• Support long‑term scalability and automation across the platform

Own what your team builds

• Teams deliver end-to-end: design, build, ship, and monitor
• You ensure visibility, alignment, and predictability across all workstreams

What You Need to Succeed

Experience & technical foundations

• 5+ years of experience as a software developer.
• 2 years+ of proven experience leading a team of 5+ engineers
• Strong technical fundamentals of software development (FE, BE,>
• Experience with SaaS or multi‑tenant systems is a plus

Leadership & delivery

• High ownership and strong delivery instincts
• Ability to prioritise, drive clarity, and make pragmatic decisions
• Assertive communication — including saying “no” when needed
• Calm, structured, and effective under pressure

Team & people management

• Experience mentoring senior engineers
• Comfortable driving accountability and structured feedback
• Excellent collaboration with Product, Design, and other teams

Ways of working

• Solid understanding of Agile delivery
• Metrics-driven, able to weigh costs, complexity, and value
• Great communication skills in English (at least B2)

What Makes Tagvenue a Great Place to Work

• Competitive salary: 30,000 - 38,000 PLN on a B2B contract
• Flexible working hours ⏱
• 24 paid days off & all bank holidays 🧘♂️🌴
• Birthday day off 🎂
• Private healthcare 🏥
• Annual growth budget for books and courses 📚
• Work 100% remotely or from our Kraków office
• Quarterly company gatherings in Kraków — collaboration, alignment, and celebrating wins together

Please send your CV in English.