Engineering Manager - Foundations & Enablement

Storyblok; Poland; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote stipend

Home office kit

Sick leave

Parental leave

25 days leave

Development fund

Team trips

Flexible schedule

Global team culture

Job summary

Storyblok is seeking an Engineering Team Manager to lead the Foundations & Enablement group, ensuring fast, secure, and consistent delivery for partner engineering teams. You will own standards, tooling, and shared systems and guide both frontend and backend engineers, managing people, performance, growth, and capacity.

You will prioritize across multiple product roadmaps, partner with Infrastructure, recruit and coach engineers, and shape the platform's technical direction in a globally

Qualifications

• 7+ years of advanced software development experience with leadership.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Frontend and backend exposure across multiple stacks.
• Experience with scalability, reliability, observability, and security.
• Own platform, DevOps, security, or developer-tooling work.
• Knowledge of testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines.
• Incident response familiarity and strong problem-solving.
• Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers focusing on delivery and growth.
• Balance technical roadmaps with product requests and trade-offs.
• Maintain engineering-wide standards for security, tooling, and CI/CD.
• Partner with Infrastructure on shared platform concerns.
• Mentor engineers and promote active coaching within the team.
• Support technical decision-making while ensuring effective delivery.
• Establish estimates, monitor progress, and resolve blockers.
• Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding to expand the team.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones to set goals and provide feedback.
• Foster documentation and open communication across the org.
• Promote empathy and a positive culture in a remote, distributed team.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

DevOps

AI literacy

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Job description

Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. It empowers you to deliver structured and consistent content everywhere: websites, apps, AI search, and beyond.

Legendary brands like Virgin Media O2, Oatly, and TomTom use Storyblok to make a bigger, faster market impact.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU

You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many "firsts". Plus these benefits:

• Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity). Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…)


• Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding


• Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays


• Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material


• The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers


• As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you'll enjoy flexible schedules


• An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a motivated and supportive Engineering Team Manager to lead our Foundations & Enablement team — the group that keeps the rest of engineering fast, secure, and consistent. Your team's customers are other engineering teams: you'll own the standards, tooling, and shared systems (CI/CD, security practices, developer experience, core platform capabilities) that every other team builds on. You will own your team's people, performance, growth, and capacity, and you'll lead engineers across both frontend and backend, so you're comfortable managing outside your own core discipline. You'll serve requests from multiple product teams while also driving your own technical roadmap for the platform, and bring strong judgment to prioritize across both. You'll also partner closely with our Infrastructure team on shared platform concerns. If you're an engineering leader who enjoys solving problems that make everyone else's job easier, we'd like to talk.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Lead and support a cross-functional team of engineers with a focus on delivery, people development, and process improvement.


• Balance your team's own technical roadmap with prioritized requests from multiple product teams, communicating trade-offs transparently.


• Maintain and evolve engineering-wide standards — security, tooling, CI/CD, developer experience — that other teams rely on.


• Partner with the Infrastructure team on shared platform concerns, with clear ownership boundaries.


• Mentor and guide team members in their professional development, while promoting a culture of active coaching within the team.


• Support engineers in making technical decisions while ensuring processes and delivery run effectively.


• Establish delivery estimates, monitor progress, and help the team overcome obstacles and resolve blockers.


• Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes to strengthen and grow the team.


• Facilitate regular one-on-one meetings to set goals, evaluate performance, and provide continuous feedback.


• Foster documentation, knowledge sharing, and open communication across the wider engineering org.


• Cultivate empathy and openness towards team members from diverse backgrounds, and promote a positive workplace culture.


• Contribute to improving processes in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including 2+ years of engineering leadership.


• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.


• Comfortable operating across both frontend and backend engineering — enough technical range to support a mixed-discipline team, even without deep expertise in every stack.


• Hands-on experience with scalability, reliability, observability, and security principles, with the credibility to set standards other teams follow.


• Experience owning platform, DevOps, security, or developer-tooling work.


• Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and problem-solving, with the ability to guide senior and staff engineers.


• Familiarity with testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on maintainability and code quality.


• Working knowledge of incident response practices.


• Proven ability to lead teams in execution — guiding engineers, resolving blockers, and ensuring delivery commitments are met.


• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with experience negotiating priorities across multiple teams.


• You are confident, detail-oriented, and highly motivated to contribute to the organization's growth as part of a high-performing team.


• Demonstrates AI literacy, with the ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, decision-making, and work quality while applying sound judgment and critical thinking.

MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Remote (home) work opportunity or funded by Storyblok co-working space

GENERAL TERMS

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