Engineering Manager

Netguru; Poznań; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company in Poznań is looking for an Engineering Manager to oversee and scale their engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive engineering experience, leadership skills, and a focus on commerce technologies. This role includes leading a large team, defining technical standards, and ensuring quality delivery across projects. A competitive salary and benefits are offered, with opportunities for remote work.

Benefits

Multisport card

Private health insurance

Life insurance

Training and growth budget

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of engineering experience.
• 2–3 years of leading teams and managing Tech Leads.
• Strong background in commerce stacks like Headless Commerce.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an engineering group of 30+ people.
• Define architecture and coding standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Full-stack mindset

Technical literacy

System design

Stakeholder communication

Fluent in Polish

Fluent in English

Job description

Our mission at Netguru is to help entrepreneurs and innovators shape the world through beautiful software. We care about trust, taking ownership, and transparency. As a Certified B Corporation®, we offer a safe, inclusive, and productive environment for all team members, and we’re always open to feedback. If you want to work from home and be a full-time employee, great! We want to create the right opportunities for you.

Over the past ten years, Netguru has changed the way people bank, listen to music, learn languages, and rent bicycles. Some of their clients include Fortune 500 companies and startups like solarisBank or senseFly. Netguru works with the largest brands in the world, such as Volkswagen, IKEA or Keller Williams.

As the Engineering Manager, you will:

• Build and scale the engineering capability powering our enterprise commerce, mobile, and integration projects.

• Own outcomes from technical quality and team velocity to hiring and mentoring, directly impacting client value.
• Be the technical backbone, ensuring technology never blocks delivery or sales by providing architecture, feasibility, risk assessments, and reliable estimations across any stack or domain.

• Partner with Delivery Managers, Tech Leads, and Talent teams to grow leaders and enable excellent, scalable engineering while maintaining quality.

Salary

• up to 35,000 PLN net monthly (B2B) + 20 paid days off
• up to 29,100 PLN gross monthly (Employment Contract)

Requirements

• 7–10 years of engineering experience (full-stack mindset preferred).
• 2–3 years of leading teams, managing Tech Leads, and scaling capabilities.
• Strong background in at least one commerce stack (e.g., Headless Commerce, PIM/DAM, Headless CMS) with cross-stack operational ability.
• Proven ability to break down unfamiliar domains and provide reliable architecture, risk assessments, and estimations.
• Deep technical literacy to audit code, architecture, CI/CD, and quality gates.
• Proficiency in system design skills.
• Competence to operate across frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, and cloud (Azure, AWS).
• Excellent stakeholder communication, navigating priorities and complexity in multi-stakeholder environments.
• High accountability, systems thinking, and a bias for structure, clarity, and action.
• Fluent Polish and English.

Nice to have

• React Native or native mobile familiarity (ability to challenge mobile estimates/risks).
• Experience with payments, logistics, or marketplace platforms.
• Experience supporting presales and proposal reviews.
• Experience in software consulting, product development, or digital delivery models.
• Background in growing Tech Leads, building communities of practice, or leading engineering transformation.

Responsibilities

1. Engineering Ownership & Leadership

• Leading and managing an engineering group (e.g., Backend+Data / Frontend+Mobile / QA+DevOps), consisting of 30+ people.
• Coaching, and helping Tech Leads across your domain to grow.
• Defining architecture, coding, review, and delivery standards.

2. Commerce Capability Leadership

• Owning engineering competence across commerce technologies (Headless Commerce, PIM/DAM, Headless CMS, complex integration patterns).
• Defining recommended stacks, integration patterns, and technical reference architectures.

3. Hands-on Problem Solving & Reviews

• Jumping into projects in crisis, diagnosing issues, and proposing actionable recovery plans.
• Performing architectural and code reviews when necessary.
• Driving quality outcomes: review practices, CI/CD, test coverage, and rework reduction.

4. Presales & Feasibility

• Supporting Deal Reviews with architecture options, reliable estimates, risk assessments, and alternatives.
• Providing technical clarity in unknown industries or new solution areas.

5. Engineering Health & Performance

• Monitoring engineering health: velocity, rework, cycle/lead time, bug rate, test coverage, code quality, and morale.
• Driving continuous improvement episodes across teams.

6. Hiring & Capability Growth

• Recruiting, coaching, and growing Engineers and Tech Leads (providing feedback, growth planning).
• Building a competency roadmap for your domain.

Benefits

• Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences:
• Multisport card.
• Private health insurance package.
• Life insurance.
• Hundreds of other options to choose from 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.).
• Discounts on Apple products.
• Support for your growth – a head/manager’s budget available to every employee.
• 175 monthly lump sum (ryczałt) for remote employees (Contract of Employment)
• Various internal initiatives: webinars, knowledge-sharing sessions, .

Don't hesitate and apply right away!

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