Engineering Manager - Verticals (Ecommerce)

Location: Hybrid 4/1 model; team based in Poznań and Warsaw, Poland. Flexible hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.; up to 30 days of occasional remote work.

Company

hirify.global operates a large marketplace with category-specific shopping experiences, more than 1,000 microservices, high-throughput data and service platforms, and production-used machine learning.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, recruit, onboard, and develop an engineering team.
• Partner with Product, UX, analytics, and engineering teams to shape customer-focused product plans.
• Guide architecture and technical decisions across customer-facing applications and backend services.
• Support delivery from discovery through production, managing uncertainty, risks, dependencies, and integration boundaries.
• Establish sustainable practices for testing, observability, operational ownership, and incident learning.
• Evaluate progress through customer outcomes and engineering health.

Requirements

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching, feedback, recruitment, and performance management.
• Strong software engineering background with the ability to reason about architecture, system design, and technical trade-offs.
• Product-oriented mindset focused on understanding customer problems before selecting solutions.
• Ability to lead work spanning user-facing applications and backend services without needing to be an expert in every technology.
• Comfort working with uncertainty and turning open questions into testable approaches and achievable delivery plans.
• Ability to use data, customer feedback, and experiments to challenge assumptions and assess solutions.
• Strong cross-team collaboration, including making dependencies and constraints explicit and building shared ownership.
• Fluent Polish and good command of English required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid 4/1 work model with flexible start times and 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Annual performance and company-results bonus plus a discretionary long-term incentive plan based on hirify.global.eu shares.
• Cafeteria benefits including medical, sports, lunch packages, insurance, and purchase vouchers.
• Paid English classes, training budget, internal learning platform, hackathons, and an additional volunteering day.
• Modern offices and equipment, including a MacBook Pro or equivalent Dell, ergonomic workstations, and conference facilities.
• Autonomous engineering culture with internal tools and technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions, plus AI tools for repetitive work.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV to apply.