Tech Lead Manager — Platform, Delivery & Reliability

Our requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering, 3+ years leading a team
• Genuinely hands-on: you read code, run reviews, understand architectural consequences and can still take a problem from analysis to a working solution. Our dominant tech stack relies on: Node.js, TypeScript, React, Vue, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes
• Advanced JIRA practice — backlog, boards, dashboards, reporting; you lead the team in it, not just know the tool
• AI-native engineer: AI tools are your daily workshop (code assistants, agents, data and document analysis), you have rolled them out to a team and can show what changed
• Maintaining and modernising long-lived legacy systems without interrupting the business
• Practical security: DevSecOps, vulnerabilities and access, backup / DR, incident response
• Modern delivery cycle: CI/CD, cloud (AWS / GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, observability
• Modern leadership: servant leadership, OKR, Kanban / Scrum without dogma, management by metrics, high-performance culture
• Fluent at the technology–business interface; Polish and English at working level

Optional

• Logistics domain (TMS / WMS), ERP and e-commerce integrations; experience transforming an IT team or department; FinOps — cloud and licence cost awareness.

Your responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–9 engineers (business applications, support and infrastructure line): 1:1s, feedback, growth, recruiting
• Own the organisation of work: decomposition of business needs into tasks, prioritisation, queueing and flow in JIRA — the team always knows what now, what next and why; business sees status without asking
• Predictable, complete delivery in a two-week rhythm (strict DoR / DoD); reliability: incident and problem management, RCA with permanent root-cause removal
• Technical authority: design and code review, mentoring, engineering decisions where the team is blocked, own contribution where it speeds things up
• AI-native engineering as the team standard — AI is the default way of working, from code assistants and agents to automated ticket triage — measured by real effect, not fashion
• Application and data security: DevSecOps, vulnerability and access management, backup / DR, incident response, GDPR compliance, vendor oversight
• Stewardship of long-lived in-house systems (TMS / WMS, e-commerce, integrations): maintenance, refactoring, gradual modernisation without breaking business continuity; recommendations (modernise, cloud, build vs buy) backed by an operating-cost case

About the project

YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS

HOW WE WORK

THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• Step 1 — A conversation, not a CV screen: Thirty minutes about what you are best at and one thing you proved. No title matching.
• Step 2 — Working session: Two hours with the team on a real zadbano. case. We watch which questions they ask and how they align on the why.
• Step 3 — The 30-day goal: We write the first-30-days expectation together with the candidate before the offer — both sides sign the same sentence.
• Step 4 — Review, then regular: Day 30: did the result land? Then regular reviews on impact, in the open decision log like everyone else.

What we offer

• A real mandate and a single point of accountability, with a short decision path
• Direct work with the Head of Innovation and visibility at board level
• A modern system of work based on metrics and AI
• A transformation with real business stakes: logistics and e-commerce, systems the whole company runs on daily
• A written 30-day goal agreed with you before the offer — and regular reviews on impact, in the open

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• integration events
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives

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