Software Engineering Manager
On-siteWarsaw, Mazovia, Poland
Job Summary
Lead a team of 5–8 engineers delivering authentication and messaging shared services on Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. Translate shared-services roadmaps into actionable engineering plans while balancing delivery, reliability, and security for org-wide consumers. Coordinate resources, manage risk, and guide technical direction on OAuth, JWT, and event-driven infrastructure with senior engineers. Oversee incident management, SLAs/SLOs, and team performance, driving alignment with the Platform Product Manager and escalating delivery risks to leadership. Improve process efficiency and represent the team cross-functionally to ensure high adoption and satisfaction from internal engineering customers.
Required Qualifications
- minimum 4 + years directly managing engineering teams
- prior hands-on software engineering experience
- solid background in backend engineering and distributed systems
- working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and service reliability (SLAs/SLOs, incident management)
- how internal engineering teams operate as service providers to the rest of the org
- organised and outcome-driven
- comfortable balancing people management (~60%) with technical/business activities (~40%)
- budget/resource planning experience for a team
- clear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- sound decision-making and comfort resolving ambiguity
- Professional-level English (spoken and written)
Desired Qualifications
- proven delivery of backend, platform, or infrastructure services
- experience managing teams responsible for shared/platform services (authentication, messaging, APIs)
- Hands-on background with authentication/identity (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT) and/or messaging/event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and .NET/C# environments
- Familiarity with GDPR / consent and security/compliance as part of the delivery bar
- Experience leading a team through a CI/CD or platform migration
- Interest in Spec-Driven Development and enabling an AI-First delivery workflow for the team (Cursor, MCP, the Technology Framework)
- Background in Scientific Publishing
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