About the Engineering team
Following a successful year of engineering growth in Poland, we're continuing to expand our teams and strengthen our presence in the region. Our Polish hub is a key part of our engineering organization, bringing together talented people who work on complex, international products and collaborate across a global environment.
As we continue to grow, we're looking for people who are excited by new challenges, enjoy working with experienced teams, and want the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while continuing to develop their skills and career.
About the role
As an Engineering Manager, you will have a significant impact on your team's operations. You will continuously enhance tools and processes for people management while collaborating with engineering managers to define new workflows and implement improvements.
What will you be doing?
- Managing a multi-member team.
- Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans.
- Ensuring code quality and functionality through the production phase.
- Upholding the quality of processes, projects, and systems agreed upon by the team.
- Defining service features and components under the team's responsibility.
- Continuously improving both personal and team performance by suggesting and helping implement new processes and engineering best practices.
- Effectively communicating progress, achievements, and areas for improvement to team members and management.
- Serving as a trusted technical authority in one or more areas, providing guidance and engineering advice to the team.
- Leading discussions on team architecture and design strategies.
- Mentoring less experienced developers.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define the team’s action plans and manage competing priorities.
- Monitoring team engagement and well-being indicators.
- Proactively identifying and resolving potential performance challenges within the team.
- Supporting the development and career growth of team members.
- Participating in recruitment processes.
- Advocating for business and technical decisions made by the company within the team.
What do we offer?
- 🏢💻Hybrid Framework - The best of both worlds! Work from home when you need focus and flexibility, and spend 2 days a week in the office for face-to-face collaboration, sharing ideas and catching up with the team. Because some things are simply better together!
- 📙 Personal Training Budget. Up to 7.000 year training budget (certifications, conferences attendance, etc.) to invest in your professional development. We want to help you improve your technical skills, feel involved in the product community, and develop your soft skills to lead teams and manage other stakeholders.
- 📺 Internal and external training, free access to online training platforms such as Linkedin Learning
- 🗺️ Languages classes every week. Thirsty for knowledge? Learn a new language by joining our free English/Spanish/German classes. You can connect and enjoy taking up a new language or improving your current skills with one of our great instructors.
- 💜 Lunch card. Enjoy a subsidized lunch card and grab a meal with your teammates — because the best conversations often happen over lunch!
- 🏥 Free private medical insurance. Take care of your health with private medical care fully covered by us
- 📄 Attractive life insurance. Extra peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
- 🏐 Co-financed Multisport card - We support an active lifestyle because staying healthy and feeling good matters.
- 😊 Volunteer day. You can take 16 hours per year in order to participate in volunteering activities! We will love to see some pictures in our slack!
- 🌅 Up to 30 days of vacation per year (additional days are granted along with seniority at AUCTANE).
- 💙 Up to 1000 PLN/year PLN/year to match your NGO donations! We are happy to support your initiatives by duplicating the amount donated.
- 👩⚕️We have an Employee Assistance Program with psychological assistance free of charge for you and your loved ones.
- 🗓️ Annual Salary Review: We are reviewing the salaries of all our teams annually in order to evaluate an increase according to individual performance and the business results.
- Referral Fee 🔗 We need your support in hiring top-class talent! We offer a referral bonus of 4k-20k PLN, depending on the complexity of the role and the hiring process.
- 💜 An inclusive and upbeat work environment Leave your suit behind... we’re a t-shirt and converse kind of place! More importantly, our company culture promotes diversity and inclusion. The personality and opinions of each of our team members are important and valid, and we aim to offer all employees a safe environment where they can be themselves and thrive.
- 🌍 A cross-cultural atmosphere We are a truly international team of 20 nationalities that speak 10 languages. Our company language is English and all internal communication and company-wide meetings are in English.
- 🏟️ Company events We do our best every day, even at our regular team-building events.
- 🏢 Nice Office in Zielona Gora and Wroclaw (free drinks, snacks…)
What are we looking for?
- As a trusted technical authority, you will become the primary point of contact for all engineering-related matters.
- Extensive experience in designing, building, and deploying solutions in AWS with an unwavering focus on quality.
- Comprehensive expertise in designing and delivering low-latency, high-throughput API systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
- As a programming polyglot, you excel in delivering software systems while leveraging Agile, Lean, and DevOps methodologies, effectively leading project execution.
- Writing automated tests (unit, integration, etc.), pairing, enhancing code quality, and continuous integration are embedded in your professional DNA.
- Proven experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, framework, or development platform.
- Experienced in developing CI/CD solutions and cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
- You believe that neglecting Continuous Delivery is a missed opportunity to learn and deliver value to clients.
- Passionate about full team ownership, encompassing the entire product lifecycle and its components, including code, infrastructure, and after-hours support.
- Embracing a new programming language or technology is an opportunity you eagerly pursue.
- Skilled at balancing the demands of delivering high-quality products while meeting challenging deadlines and committed to fulfilling your responsibilities.
- Your actions consistently demonstrate that collaboration is the best path to delivering outstanding products.
- Polish and English fluency are required for this role.
The tech stack
- Core Platform: Java 21, Maven, TestNG, Extent Reports, Custom Playwright Framework
- Infrastructure & Deployment: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub/Bitbucke
- Architecture & Patterns: Google Guice, Page Object Model, Data-driven Design, Excel/JSON/XML, OpenCSV
- Data & Search: Elastic Search, OpenSearch, Jackson JSON, SQL Databases
- AWS Services: S3, Secrets Manager, STS, RDS (IAM Auth)
- Libraries & Integrations: Lombok, LaunchDarkly, Xray, PDF Processing, Image Processing
