Engineering Manager

Our requirements

• Management Experience: 2+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, with demonstrated success coaching, mentoring, evaluating, and developing technical talent.
• Engineering Background: A proven track record as a senior or staff-level engineer prior to transitioning into management, with a deep understanding of production software systems.
• Native Android Expertise (Non-Negotiable): Deep experience with native Android application development. You must be equipped to guide modern Android architecture (Kotlin), manage legacy Java codebases, assess implementation tradeoffs, ensure code quality, and lead production debugging.
• Backend & Systems Exposure: Familiarity with modern backend services and distributed systems; experience or exposure to Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and Kafka is a strong plus.
• Distributed Leadership: Proven success leading product-focused engineering teams across distributed locations and time zones (specifically working between the US and Europe).
• Technical Judgment: Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture, review designs, ask the right questions, and help teams make pragmatic tradeoffs without needing to be the primary hands-on coder.
• Operational Excellence: Experience improving reliability, performance, and operational quality through metrics, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Product Empathy: Ability to collaborate deeply with Product and Design to turn ambiguous customer and business problems into clear engineering plans.
• Execution Bias: A strong bias toward action, balanced with exceptional judgment around quality, reliability, and customer impact.

Optional

• Experience in POS, payments, restaurant technology, fintech, mobile commerce, or other mission-critical transaction systems.
• Experience with card-present payments, payment terminals, EMV, PCI, tap/contactless payments, refunds, settlement concepts, reconciliation concepts, idempotency, offline payments, or payment retry/error handling.
• Experience integrating with internal or external SDKs where another team owns the underlying platform and your team owns the customer-facing product experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows or guiding teams to use AI coding agents responsibly to improve productivity and quality.

Your responsibilities

• Bridge Time Zones: Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture across distributed time zones, optimizing for asynchronous communication and aligned execution.
• Own Execution: Own engineering execution for all checkout flows, including card and cash payments, split payments, tipping, discounts, gift cards, refunds, voids, receipts, offline flows, and related order/payment data.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product and Design to define and deliver customer-centered checkout experiences for restaurant operators, staff, and guests.
• Collaborate on SDKs: Collaborate with the Financial Services team to integrate with and influence SpotOn’s internal Payments SDK, ensuring the POS payment experience is fast, reliable, accurate, and resilient.
• Drive Architecture: Guide technical decisions across native Android implementation and the evolution of our backend services toward an event-driven architecture using Kafka.
• Optimize Metrics: Drive improvements in key product and operational metrics, including end-to-end checkout time, checkout success rate, crash-free sessions, payment accuracy, support case frequency, and incident frequency.
• Build Engineering Discipline: Create strong engineering practices for quality, testing, observability, incident readiness, and production support in an environment where engineers own outcomes end-to-end.
• Incident Response: Serve in SpotOn’s Engineering Manager incident commander rotation and actively support checkout and payment-related incidents within the application.
• Manage Risk: Build clear plans, manage delivery risks, communicate status proactively, and ensure stakeholders have the context needed to make informed decisions.
• Develop Talent: Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, career development, and thoughtful delegation.

About the project

This is how we work on a project

• code review
• documentation
• issue tracking tools
• testing environments

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Why This Role Matters:

Development opportunities we offer

• development budget
• external training
• industry-specific e-learning platforms

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Training budget 3500 PLN gross per year.
• Access to e-learning platforms (O’Reilly).
• Fully paid private healthcare in LuxMed.
• Access to the Worksmile platform with a monthly top-up.
• Subsidized access to breakfast and lunch through the vending machine in Kraków office, and lunches in Gdańsk office once a week.
• Group English classes with a native speaker.
• New Macbook Pro, 4K monitors or whatever tools you need.
• Flexible working hours.
• New, modern, bright and comfortable office space in the city centre.
• Access to the company’s library.
• Great working atmosphere.
• Chill out room with a PlayStation and games.
• Free snacks and beverages in a kitchen.
• Company parties and social activities.
• Employee referral program.
• Relocation Package within Poland.
• Parking space in the underground garage.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• flexible working time
• corporate library
• no dress code
• video games at work
• drinks
• leisure zone
• meal passes
• employee referral program

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