Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager

at SpotOn

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: PLN 30,400 - PLN 38,000 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Django, Postgres, Python, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Krakow, Poland

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading Merchant Dashboard team at SpotOn. This role entails managing engineering teams and driving technical direction for a crucial platform.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & People Management - Directly manage 5 engineers and 1 Engineering Manager (Growth team, 3 engineers) - Coach, mentor, and grow engineers across a range of seniority levels - Own hiring, performance management, career development, and team health - Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Technical Direction - Guide the technical strategy for a micro frontend (MFE) architecture built on single-spa, React, TypeScript, and Vite - Oversee a Python/Django backend serving the merchant dashboard, backed by PostgreSQL - Drive architectural decisions across multiple repositories and services, including shared component libraries, navigation, permissions, and the core frontend application - Be hands-on enough to review architecture proposals, unblock engineers, and make informed build-vs-buy decisions - Champion engineering best practices: testing (Vitest, Playwright E2E, BDD), CI/CD, code quality, and observability.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication - Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on roadmap priorities and trade offs - Clearly communicate team progress, risks, and technical decisions to leadership and the broader organization - Translate business goals into actionable engineering plans and ensure the team delivers predictably - Represent the Merchant Dashboard team in planning cycles, reviews, and cross-team coordination.
• Execution & Organization - Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery across both teams - Maintain high organizational rigor — clear build cycle goals, well-groomed backlogs, and transparent status reporting - Identify and mitigate risks early; remove blockers for the team - Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers or tech leads.
• Strong technical background in modern web development (React, TypeScript, Python).
• Experience with micro frontend architectures or large-scale frontend platform teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Track record of building, retaining, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Highly organized - you bring structure to ambiguity and keep teams focused on what matters.
• Experience with agentic software development patterns - expertise with spec-driven development and AI-driven workflows to accelerate product delivery, and the ability to drive adoption of these practices across your teams.
• Experience with single-spa or similar MFE frameworks.
• Familiarity with Django and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Vite, Vitest, and Playwright for build/test tooling.
• Background in merchant-facing or SaaS platform products.
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams.
• Familiarity with i18n/localization in web applications.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Training budget 3500 PLN gross per year.
• Access to e-learning platforms (O’Reilly).
• Fully paid private healthcare in LuxMed.
• Access to the Worksmile platform with a monthly top-up.
• Subsidized access to breakfast and lunch through the vending machine in Kraków office, and lunches in Gdańsk office once a week.
• Group English classes with a native speaker.
• New Macbook Pro, 4K monitors or whatever tools you need.
• Flexible working hours.
• New, modern, bright and comfortable office space in the city centre.
• Access to the company’s library.
• Great working atmosphere.
• Chill out room with a PlayStation and games.
• Free snacks and beverages in a kitchen.
• Company parties and social activities.
• Employee referral program.
• Relocation Package within Poland.
• Parking space in the underground garage.