Technical Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Our requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software, backend, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years of technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.
• A track record of establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical roadmaps.
• Experience building a new product or platform, or leading a significant architectural transformation from an early stage.
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions in an environment with incomplete requirements and changing priorities.
• Strong engineering background in Python or Java.
• Production experience with Temporal or Cadence.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.
• Practical experience designing idempotent workflows, retries, compensation mechanisms, replay, and other durable-execution patterns.
• Experience designing REST APIs; GraphQL experience is strongly valued.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or Kinesis.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience, including data modeling, schema design, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience building and operating production systems on Azure or AWS.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, performance, and scalability.
• Experience contributing to an AI-enabled product or working closely with AI or machine-learning engineering teams.
• Familiarity with LLM integration patterns or agentic frameworks such as LangChain or Agno would be beneficial.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with highly technical engineers and senior international stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel internationally approximately once per quarter.

Your responsibilities

• Provide technical and people leadership to the platform engineering team in Kraków.
• Establish scalable engineering practices, architectural standards, and decision-making principles.
• Mentor engineers, support their professional development, and help build a strong permanent local team.
• Partner with senior technical leadership in the United States on platform direction, priorities, and delivery.
• Create an environment in which strong engineers can work independently while remaining aligned on architecture and product goals.
• Lead the architecture of the workflow orchestration layer built around Temporal.
• Guide the design of durable, idempotent, fault-tolerant, and observable data-processing workflows.
• Oversee the PostgreSQL data model supporting integration configuration, transformation versioning, execution history, and data lineage.
• Shape the architecture of REST and GraphQL APIs, core platform services, customer integrations, and source and destination connectors.
• Define patterns for retries, replay, recovery, workflow versioning, compensation, and partial-failure handling.
• Ensure reliable integration and clear separation between the deterministic platform layer and the product’s AI capabilities.
• Establish platform reliability practices, including SLAs and SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• Guide the implementation of audit trails, immutable logging, access controls, data masking, and encryption.
• Ensure that sensitive financial data is processed securely and remains traceable throughout its lifecycle.
• Ensure the platform remains highly available, performant, secure, and cost-effective as it scales.
• Work with Cloud Engineering on infrastructure requirements, deployment architecture, and security posture.
• Work closely with AI Engineering, Product, Design, QA, and Cloud Engineering across Kraków and the United States.
• Translate evolving product and customer requirements into pragmatic technical decisions.
• Balance the 2027 pilot timeline with long-term enterprise architecture, reliability, and governance requirements.
• Help the team operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where requirements and organizational structures continue to evolve.
• Provide technical direction when the team encounters complex architectural or production problems.

About the project

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What we offer

• Private medical care.
• Life insurance.
• Confidential counselling and support for personal, family, financial, and legal matters.
• Professional training and support for relevant qualifications.
• A comprehensive wellbeing programme.
• Access to an online social-benefits platform.
• Social, sports, and integration events.
• A structured onboarding programme.
• One Culture Celebration Day and one Community Service Day in addition to the standard annual leave allowance.

Recruitment stages

• 1.
  A call with Motife recruiter
• 2.
  Technical discussions
• 3.
  On-site meeting in Krakow
• 4.
  Final leadership conversation

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