Technical Team Manager (Backend)

Zohorecruit; Katowice; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Group life insurance

Multisport card

Professional development hours

OpenUp / Pluralsight access

Referral bonus

Job summary

Shiji is seeking a senior software lead to drive cross-functional frontend and backend development in a multi-region cloud setup. You will mentor teams, oversee sprint planning, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Product Owners to deliver high-quality features.

You will influence architecture choices, promote best practices, and ensure timely delivery while coordinating with UI/UX and other departments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience with leadership exposure.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring a cross-functional frontend and backend team.
• Conducting 1-on-1s, performance reviews and career development planning.
• Building and maintaining a positive, collaborative team culture.
• Managing team capacity, workload distribution and sprint commitments.
• Planning and coordinating project deliverables with Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Managing project timelines, risks and dependencies.
• Ensuring timely delivery of high-quality, performant solutions.
• Reporting project status and metrics to management.
• Coordinating with other teams in multi-region cloud environment.
• Defining and maintaining architecture standards for frontend and backend.
• Making key technical decisions regarding technology stack and patterns.
• Ensuring code quality through reviews and coding standards.

Skills

C#

.NET

Object-Oriented Programming

Microservices

DDD

CQRS

Event Sourcing

REST API design

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Team Leadership

Agile/Scrum

English communication

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Shiji is a global technology company dedicated to providing innovative solutions for the hospitality industry, ensuring seamless operations for hoteliers day and night.

Built on the Shiji Platform-the only truly global hotel technology platform-Shiji's cloud-based portfolio includes Property Management System, Point-of-Sale, guest engagement, distribution, payments, and data intelligence solutions for over 91,000 hotels worldwide, including the largest chains.

The best hotels run on Shiji - day and night.

Job Description

Software you will be working on is distributed technologyplatform with set of functionalities for hotels, restaurants, spa, golf andmore.

The position is offered on a 1-year contract

Our Daily Work

• Wework in iterations with refinements, plannings and retrospectivemeetings
  
• We useGitlab to sync the code with develop and master branches, and createfeature branch for each User Story
  
• Wecommit daily and use CI/CD using Gitlab/Jenkins
  
• Weopen merge requests and conduct code reviews before merge
  
• We usedocker and docker compose for local development and deployment of allmicroservices
  
• We useTeams to communicate and participate in meetings with other teammembers
  
• Wecooperate with UI/UX department to provide user the best possible looksand feel of application
  
• Wecreate internal packages (NPM, Nuget) to share work with others and avoidrepetitions
  
• Wedevelop API first-platform with focus on integrations and userexperience
  

Technologies we use:

• Microservices,CQRS, DDD, Event Sourcing
  
• PostgreSQL,Redis, Elastic Search
  
• Kafka
  

Frontend

• Reactecosystem, TypeScript
  
• Jest,Vitest, Testing Library
  
• Webpack,Babel, Vite
  
• TanStackQuery
  

Tools & Practices

• Gitlab,Docker and Docker Compose
  
• Designpatterns and clean code practices (OOP, SOLID, DDD)
  

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Leadingand mentoring a cross-functional team of frontend and backenddevelopers
  
• Conducting1-on-1 meetings, performance reviews and career development planning
  
• Buildingand maintaining a positive, collaborative team culture
  
• Managingteam capacity, workload distribution and sprint commitments
  
• Planningand coordinating project deliverables with Product Owners andstakeholders
  
• Managingproject timelines, risks and dependencies
  
• Ensuringtimely delivery of high-quality, performant solutions
  
• Reportingproject status and metrics to management
  
• Coordinatingwith other teams in multi-region cloud environment
  
• Definingand maintaining architecture standards for both frontend and backend
  
• Makingkey technical decisions regarding technology stack and architecturalpatterns
  
• Ensuringcode quality through code reviews and establishing coding standards
  

Requirements

• Minimum6 years' experience in software development with at least 2 years in aleadership or team lead role
  
• Provenexperience leading, mentoring and growing cross-functional developmentteams
  
• Strongproject management skills with ability to plan, execute and deliverprojects on time
  
• Experiencemanaging Agile/Scrum teams and facilitating ceremonies
  
• Excellentcommunication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to bothtechnical and non-technical stakeholders
  
• Strongproblem-solving skills and ability to make architectural and strategicdecisions
  
• Knowledgeof C#, .NET and Object-Oriented Programming
  
• Experiencewith microservices architecture and distributed systems
  
• Understandingof Domain Driven Design (DDD), CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns
  
• Experiencewith relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL solutions (Redis, ElasticSearch)
  
• Familiaritywith message brokers (Kafka) and event-driven architectures
  
• Proficiencywith Docker, containerization and cloud environments
  
• Strongunderstanding of REST API design and integration patterns
  
• Experiencewith Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab)
  
• Understandingof design patterns, SOLID principles and clean code practices
  
• Experiencewith code review processes and quality assurance
  
• FluentEnglish, both written and spoken
  

Nice to have

• Experiencewith multi-region cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  
• Knowledgeof Kubernetes and container orchestration
  
• Experiencewith microfrontends architecture
  
• Familiaritywith design systems and component library development
  

What Do We Offer?

• Private medical care, including a dental package, for you and your family
  
• Group life insurance for you and your partner
  
• Multisport card as part of the Worksmile package
  

Work & Growth

• 40 hours for professional development during work hours,
  
• Access to platforms like: OpenUp, GoodHabitz, Pluralsight
  
• Worksmile cafeteria with 520 points per month,
  
• Referral bonus (starting from 6,500 PLN gross, depending on the position),
  
• Chill room with table football and PlayStation
  

Clause Regarding the Prohibition of Assistance Tools During Recruitment Interviews

In the interest of equal opportunity and transparency in the recruitment process, we would like to inform you that during job interviews (both remote and in-person), the following are not permitted: - the use of tools based on artificial intelligence (AI), including chatbots, response generators, translators, or content creation aids, - recording of interviews without prior and explicit consent from a company representative, - the use of applications that generate automatic notes or transcriptions of meetings (e.g., Notion AI, Otter.ai, Fireflies, etc.).