Engineering Manager

WHAT ROLE WILL YOU TAKE ON A TEAM?

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to take ownership of one of our engineering domains. In this role, you act as the „mini-CEO” of your technical ecosystem. We do not look for ticket managers; we need a leader who bridges deep technical expertise with sharp commercial instincts. You will partner with CPTO, and stakeholders to decide where to invest engineering capacity, how to optimize workload, and ensure predictable, high-impact delivery that drives business value.

You will spend your time mostly on the following

• Delivery & Product Partnership (~40%):

Prioritization, roadmapping, and end-to-end delivery accountability.

• People & Team Leadership (~35%):

Coaching engineers, setting growth paths, hiring, and building high-autonomy teams.

• Technical Strategy & Operations (~25%):

Architecture alignment, technical debt management, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Your responsibilities

• Provide personal support, onboarding and regular 1:1 meetings
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve team efficiency and product quality
• Take an active part in creating a technological development roadmap
• Ensure technical feasibility of product features and drive architectural decisions
• Take accountability for the predictable execution
• Determine processes and metrics to ensure products are market-ready
• Bridge the gap between product vision and engineering execution
• Partner with Product Managers to evaluate feature value, challenge assumptions, and decide what is worth building versus what should be simplified or skipped.
• Cost tracking and management skills
• Cooperate with other internal teams

Our expectations

• Have 5+ years of experience building modern web applications in a commercial environment (software development background)
• Have 2+ years of experience in managing team and individuals: performance evaluation, facilitating meetings, guiding career paths as Team / Tech Lead or Engineering Manager
• Knowledge and good understanding of sport rules
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle and delivering
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with architecture and software design patterns
• Experience in identifying people’s needs and talents
• Have well-balanced results and people orientation
• Have strong interpersonal skills and fluent in English (B2 at least)
• Ability to create an organization that understands how to balance technical debt vs. business goals
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility

Skills

• SDLC 5/5
• Team management 4/5
• People development 4/5
• Technical analysis 4/5
• Sport rules knowledge 4/5
• JavaScript / TypeScript 3/5
• Application Security 2/5

Would be your advantage

• Good understanding of sports rules and domain specifics (you understand why millisecond delays in live scores matter).
• Understanding of service-to-service dependencies in architecture
• Ability to identify and mitigate coupling, performance bottlenecks, and failure propagation risks
• Languages including TypeScript or PHP
• Experience with AMQP (RabbitMq), Postman, Redis, cache services

HOW DO WE WORK?

As a Technological Product Team we plan our work ahead. We use OKR’s in every quarter planning and plan 2 week sprints for our development teams. We speak both Polish (internally) and English (with our partners). We work in hybrid mode with flexible hours, from home or from the office in Katowice.

Recruitment process

The entire process will take up to about 2.5 hours

• Screening - online meeting (30 min)
• Interview with Hiring Manager and CPTO - on-site meeting (90 min)