Engineering Manager

Our requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise application development.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience delivering modern software platforms, including web applications, APIs, backend services, and SaaS integrations.
• Strong understanding of full-stack software engineering and modern application architecture.
• Experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing workflow automation, business process orchestration, or operational platforms.
• Experience designing and operating solutions on modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar).
• Strong understanding of people, process, and technology interactions, with an ability to design systems that optimize across all three.
• Proven experience simplifying complex business processes through technology and automation.
• Experience evaluating tradeoffs between self-service, automation, augmentation, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience developing talent, coaching individuals, and leading teams through organizational and process change.
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Optional

• Experience with procurement, fulfillment, request management, service management, workflow, or operational platforms.
• Experience building systems that support large-scale business operations across multiple regions or countries.
• Experience integrating third-party SaaS platforms, vendors, and enterprise systems.
• Experience with cloud-native engineering practices, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms, low-code platforms, or process automation tools.
• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows, decision-support systems, or human-in-the-loop automation.
• Experience working with high-volume transactional systems and operational processes.
• Familiarity with vendor management, procurement processes, or global business operations.

Your responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams responsible for building and operating platforms that support global technology request, fulfillment, and procurement workflows.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of software engineers while partnering closely with request processing and procurement specialists that enable day-to-day business operations.
• Partner with Product Management to define technical strategy, architecture direction, and engineering roadmaps.
• Drive the transformation of manual and highly customized processes into scalable, automated, and self-service experiences.
• Lead the development of workflow platforms, microservices, APIs, SaaS integrations, and web applications that support both customer-facing and operational workflows.
• Design systems that effectively balance self-service, automation, augmentation, and human review to optimize customer experience, operational efficiency, and business risk.
• Partner with request processing and procurement teams to design workflows, tooling, and operating models that improve scale, consistency, and customer experience.
• Apply systems thinking to identify opportunities that simplify workflows, reduce handoffs, improve decision-making, and increase operational efficiency.
• Foster strong engineering practices focused on security, quality, observability, reliability, maintainability, and speed to value.
• Build and develop engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and growth opportunities.
• Collaborate with globally distributed stakeholders to identify process improvement opportunities and scale successful solutions across regions and business units.
• Drive continuous improvement through data-driven decision making and measurable operational outcomes

About the project

What we offer

• Employment contract.
• Company car and/or car allowance.
• Strong support for work-life balance, including flexible working hours (start time between 7:00 and 10:00 AM) and a hybrid work model at Business Garden in Poznań.
• Opportunities for professional development within the company, with strong support for internal career growth.
• Employee referral program.
• Additional vacation days based on length of employment.
• Holiday allowance when taking at least 2 weeks off.
• Daily use of a foreign language in a friendly international working environment.
• Private medical care, life insurance, sports card, meal allowance, language courses, a social fund budget, and various additional fun events in our office.
• Free access to our e-learning platform, featuring over 1,000 courses.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• computer available for private use
• saving & investment scheme
• corporate library
• video games at work
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• holiday funds
• sharing the costs of holidays for kids
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• family picnics

Recruitment stages

• 1.
  Technical Assessment
• 2.
  Technical Interview
• 3.
  Behavioral Interview

John Deere Polska Sp. z o.o.