Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Lead, Pixel

Google Inc.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 380,000 - 508,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Poland is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to optimize code, manage project goals, and oversee teams in delivering high-quality products. The ideal candidate will have extensive software development experience and proven leadership skills, driving the evolution of the team and organizational strategy for the Pixel line of products. This role includes significant responsibility for recruitment and team culture.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience in organizational strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Grow Poland sites through talent recruitment and culture fostering.
• Set team priorities supporting broader organization goals.
• Collaborate with leads to ensure the delivery of high-quality products.

Skills

Leadership and decision making

Software development

Stakeholder influence

Organizational strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Lead, Pixel

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Experience with owning and driving organizational strategy and development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience in development, testing and deployment of Android Board Support Packages (BSP), Linux device drivers or Linux kernel modules.
• Experience in embedded development, or a passion for embedded systems and launching consumer-facing hardware products.

About the job

Like Google’s own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers not only provide technical expertise to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You optimize your own code and ensure Engineers can optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large‑scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started – and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large‑scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world’s most helpful mobile experience. The team shapes the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Responsibilities

• Grow Poland sites through talent recruitment, evolving sites and space, fostering Google and Pixel culture.
• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization’s goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision‑making across teams.
• Develop the long‑term technical goal and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with leads to ensure collective unity and the consistent delivery of high‑quality products and services across all distributed teams.
• Lead the objective of expanding new Pixel Software teams in Poland by developing new Team Leads and Technical Lead Managers.

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