Engineering Manager - Digital Identity

IDEMIA Public Security; Łódź; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA Public Security in Poland is seeking a senior software engineering leader to translate division strategy into team roadmaps and ensure delivery across multiple products. You will own engineering excellence, security, and reliability while mentoring engineers and aligning with Product Owners and Architects.

You will contribute to architectural decisions, manage risks, and foster a culture of ownership and collaboration in an international environment. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and managing software teams.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• English proficiency in a multinational environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a software engineering team working across multiple products and contexts.
• Drive engineering excellence ensuring quality, security, maintainability, and reliability.
• Own delivery commitments with capacity planning and prioritization.
• Coach engineers and support performance and career growth.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and leadership to align roadmaps.

Skills

Software leadership

Engineering judgment

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Istio

Job description

Since our founding, IDEMIA Public Security has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Purpose

This role is responsible for translating the Division and/or entity strategy into team roadmaps and objectives and ensuring they are achieved, as well as for team members’ performance, engagement, and development

Key Missions

• Lead a software engineering team working across multiple products and business contexts.
• Drive engineering excellence by fostering strong engineering practices and continuous improvement, ensuring software quality, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Own engineering delivery commitments, ensuring predictable execution, effective capacity planning, and a balanced approach to business priorities, quality, and technical sustainability.
• Coach and develop engineers, supporting performance, engagement, and career growth.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration, empowering engineers to make decisions and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and engineering leaders to align priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, cross-team dependencies, and escalations, ensuring clear communication of their impact to stakeholders.
• Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices through experimentation and knowledge sharing, with a focus on measurable improvements in engineering productivity and quality.
• Own team resource planning and recruitment, ensuring the right skills and capacity to support evolving business needs.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions in collaboration with Architects and engineering teams.
• Contribute to engineering strategy and represent the team in stakeholder discussions.

Profile & Other Information

Profile

• Strong software engineering background with proven experience leading and managing software development teams.
• Strong technical judgment, with the ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, challenge technical decisions, and balance technical sustainability with delivery objectives.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and modern engineering practices.
• Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities, and proactively identify risks.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in an international, cross-functional environment.
• Good command of English.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience contributing to software architecture or solution design.
• Experience working with cloud-native applications, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with digital identity, biometrics, or security-related solutions.
• Experience driving organizational change or engineering transformation.
• Experience with multi-product or shared-platform engineering teams.

Technology Landscape

• Languages & Frameworks: Kotlin, Java, Python, Spring, Vert.x
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, Helm, Istio
• Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• CI/CD: Jenkins, ArgoCD, JFrog
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Jaeger
• API Management: Kong, AWS API Gateway

By choosing to work at IDEMIA Public Security , you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.

We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.

At IDEMIA Public Security , people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.

Visit our website to know more about the leader in Identity Technologies

https://www.idemia.com/business/idemia-public-security