VP Engineering: AI-Driven Builder & Team Leader

Scaleworks; Kraków; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development fund

Contract flexibility

Job summary

Scaleworks is seeking an engineering leader for one of its portfolio companies in Kraków to ship production code and shape the engineering organisation. You will lead a small team while maintaining hands-on coding and owning AI-native development.

You will implement tooling, standards, and quality gates to improve throughput, with a focus on Python or Ruby and React exposure. You will not own product strategy, but will drive technical excellence and team growth.

Qualifications

• Led a small engineering team with delivery responsibility.
• Active hands-on coding and real ownership of shipped features.
• AI-native development with agents, evals, and model routing.
• Strong Python or Ruby skills; comfortable picking up others; React exposure.
• Clear, defensible views on code review and testing in AI-assisted codebase.

Responsibilities

• Ship code in live services and contribute to production readiness.
• Redesign how we build: tooling, agents, standards, quality gates to improve throughput.
• Shape team size and structure; decide what work to stop doing and hiring bar.
• Deliver customer-facing AI features within the product.
• Meet 30/60/90 day milestones and establish a plan for the team.

Skills

Led small engineering teams

Hands-on coding today

AI-native development

Python or Ruby

React exposure

Code review & testing standards

Tools

Python

Ruby

React

Job description

Scaleworks is seeking an engineering leader for one of its portfolio companies in Kraków to ship production code and shape the engineering organisation. You will lead a small team while maintaining hands-on coding and owning AI-native development.

You will implement tooling, standards, and quality gates to improve throughput, with a focus on Python or Ruby and React exposure. You will not own product strategy, but will drive technical excellence and team growth.