Engineering Manager

Netguru is a trusted partner in digital commerce. The company helps leading brands modernize B2B solutions, marketplaces, and retail ecosystems. Since 2008, it has empowered businesses with cutting-edge technology, AI-powered personalization, and world-class engineering and design teams. A certified B Corporation®, Netguru is trusted by major brands including IKEA, VW, OLX, Delivery Hero, Żabka, Wolt, Careem, and Vinted.

We are looking for a Engineering Manager to join our Team!

What we offer

28,000–32,000 PLN net/month on B2B.

Real influence on how a 30+ person engineering group works and grows.

Work with enterprise clients across retail, finance, healthcare and energy.

AI tools and budget to experiment with new ways of delivery.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Netguru you lead a group of engineers and Tech Leads and you are the technical backbone of the deals and projects in your area. You are a people leader, a hands-on engineer when it matters, and a regular voice in presales. You make sure technology never blocks delivery or sales, and that our teams use AI-augmented delivery to ship faster without losing quality.

What you will do:

Engineering quality & crisis support

• Jump into projects in trouble, diagnose the issue and propose a recovery plan.
• Do architecture and code reviews when needed; set review, CI/CD, security and testing standards.
• Track engineering health: velocity, rework, lead time, bug rate, test coverage and morale.

Capability building

• Build the competency roadmap for your domain (e.g. backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, data/AI).
• Run communities of practice and experiments with new tools and agentic workflows.
• Take part in recruitment of engineers and Tech Leads.

Presales & estimations

• Support opportunities and RFPs: discovery calls, solution options, estimates, risk assessments.
• Review estimates from your Tech Leads and challenge assumptions, including how AI-assisted delivery changes effort.
• Decide with sales which opportunities are worth pursuing and say no when the risk is too high.

People & line management

• Be the line manager for 20–30+ engineers and Tech Leads: 1:1s, feedback, growth plans, promotions, salary reviews and offboarding.
• Coach Tech Leads and grow the next generation of leaders in your domain.
• Keep Delivery Managers in the loop on every change that affects their teams (raises, departures, rotations).

Staffing & bench

• Own allocation of your people across projects together with Delivery and Talent teams.
• Keep the bench low: a clear plan for every person between projects, and active matching to new opportunities.
• Plan certifications and upskilling (e.g. cloud, AI tooling) ahead of demand.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 2–3+ years leading people and Tech Leads.
• A hands-on background as a full-stack developer: you have built and shipped production code in major tech stacks (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, .NET, React, mobile) and you can still read, review and write code.
• Line management experience: hiring, performance conversations, growth plans, hard conversations.
• Depth in at least one of: complex enterprise systems (many integrated systems, cloud-native, end-to-end at corporate scale) or data/AI-heavy systems.
• Experience in presales: estimates, proposals, technical answers to RFPs.
• Ability to audit code, architecture, CI/CD and quality gates across frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Daily use of AI-augmented engineering (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar) and a view on how it changes team setup and estimation.
• Clear communication with clients, sales and delivery in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Fluent Polish and English (B2+).

Nice to have:

• Background in software house, consulting or digital delivery.
• Experience in regulated domains (finance, healthcare, energy, retail at scale).
• Experience in building communities of practice or leading an engineering transformation.

Benefits

• UoP (CoE): Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences:
• Multisport card,
• Private health insurance package,
• Life insurance,
• And hundreds of other options to choose from 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.).
• UoP (CoE): PLN 175 monthly lump sum (ryczałt) for remote employees.
• B2B: Discounts on Apple products.
• Various internal initiatives: Team workshops and integration events, webinars, and knowledge sharing sessions.

Don't hesitate and apply right away!
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