Tech Lead Manager -Platform, Delivery & Reliability

DTS Transport sp. z o.o.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 279,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real mandate and accountability

Direct work with Head of Innovation

Job summary

Zadbano SA in Warsaw seeks an experienced engineering leader to guide a team of 6–9 engineers across business applications, support, and infrastructure. You will drive predictable two-week delivery cycles with strong DoR/DoD, handle incidents and root-cause analysis, and set architectural direction while mentoring engineers.

You should be hands-on, capable of reviewing code and making engineering decisions when needed, and apply AI-native practices as standard.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering.
• 3+ years leading a team.
• Hands-on: you read code and drive architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–9 engineers (business applications, support and infrastructure).
• Ensure delivery in a two-week rhythm with DoR/DoD; manage incidents and RCA.
• Provide technical authority: design reviews, mentoring and decisions when blocked.
• Promote AI-native engineering as standard: code assistants and agents; measurable impact.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Code reviews

AI-native engineering

Polish (language)

English (language)

Node.js

TypeScript

React

Vue

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Zadbano SA · Warsaw · on-site · full-time B2B contract · reporting to Head of Innovation

Zadbano is a Polish logistics company in a real transformation towards a technology-platform model. Technology is where we build our operating model and our business advantage. Seven engineers today. This role owns the people, the organisation of work and the quality of delivery — player-coach, side by side with the Head of Innovation who sets direction. It is for someone who wants real influence and to see the effect of their work in how the company runs, without escaping engineering into pure management.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead a team of 6–9 engineers (business applications, support and infrastructure line): 1:1s, feedback, growth, recruiting
• Predictable, complete delivery in a two-week rhythm (strict DoR / DoD); reliability: incident and problem management, RCA with permanent root-cause removal
• Technical authority: design and code review, mentoring, engineering decisions where the team is blocked, own contribution where it speeds things up
• AI-native engineering as the team standard - AI is the default way of working, from code assistants and agents to automated ticket triage - measured by real effect, not fashion

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• 7+ years in software engineering, 3+ years leading a team
• Genuinely hands-on: you read code, run reviews, understand architectural consequences and can still take a problem from analysis to a working solution. Our dominant tech stack relies on: Node.js, TypeScript, React, Vue, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes
• AI-native engineer: AI tools are your daily workshop (code assistants, agents, data and document analysis), you have rolled them out to a team and can show what changed
• Fluent at the technology–business interface; Polish and English at working level
• 25–35k - depends on the depth and relevance of experience you bring to the organisation

WHAT WE OFFER

• A real mandate and a single point of accountability, with a short decision path
• Direct work with the Head of Innovation and visibility at board level

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own the organisation of work: decomposition of business needs into tasks, prioritisation, queueing and flow in JIRA - the team always knows what now, what next and why; business sees status without asking
• Application and data security: DevSecOps, vulnerability and access management, backup / DR, incident response, GDPR compliance, vendor oversight
• Stewardship of long-lived in-house systems (TMS / WMS, e-commerce, integrations): maintenance, refactoring, gradual modernisation without breaking business continuity; recommendations (modernise, cloud, build vs buy) backed by an operating-cost case

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• Advanced JIRA practice -backlog, boards, dashboards, reporting; you lead the team in it, not just know the tool
• Maintaining and modernising long-lived legacy systems without interrupting the business
• Practical security: DevSecOps, vulnerabilities and access, backup / DR, incident response
• Modern delivery cycle: CI/CD, cloud (AWS / GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, observability
• Modern leadership: servant leadership, OKR, Kanban / Scrum without dogma, management by metrics, high-performance culture

Nice to have

• Nice to have: Logistics domain (TMS / WMS), ERP and e-commerce integrations; experience transforming an IT team or department; FinOps — cloud and licence cost awareness.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A modern system of work based on metrics and AI
• A transformation with real business stakes: logistics and e-commerce, systems the whole company runs on daily
• A written 30-day goal agreed with you before the offer — and regular reviews on impact, in the open

YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS

We align on your first 30-day goal together - with you and the team - based on the current focus areas, before the offer. Both sides sign the same sentence.

THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• Step 1 - A conversation, not a CV screen: Thirty minutes about what you are best at and one thing you proved. No title matching.
• Step 2 - Working session: Two hours with the team on a real zadbano. case. We watch which questions they ask and how they align on the why.
• Step 3 - The 30-day goal: We write the first-30-days expectation together with the candidate before the offer - both sides sign the same sentence.
• Step 4 - Review, then regular: Day 30: did the result land? Then regular reviews on impact, in the open decision log like everyone else.

Question before you decide. Align on intention. Measure together, show the impact.