Engineering Manager

We're currently seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our team for the Coiote IoT Device Management Platform at AVSystem. Coiote offers a comprehensive solution for efficient, secure, and scalable IoT device control. Our platform emphasizes standardized interoperability, data management, secure provisioning, OTA firmware updates, and seamless cloud integration.

As the Engineering Manager, you'll support and collaborate with developers, driving innovation through our Anjay SDK/LwM2M Client integration, and accelerating IoT development for our clients and partners.

If you're passionate about IoT and ready to make an impact, we'd love to have you on board. Let's shape the future of IoT together!

We are specifically looking for someone who meets the following criteria: Worked as a Software Engineer with IT-related studies, and at least 2 years of experience as an Engineering/People Manager.

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of adapting suitable methodologies for team collaboration (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, Waterfall)
• Advanced knowledge about Risk Management
• Advanced knowledge in time management, employee development methods (such as PMP, GROW method, talent recognition, career pathing, management 3.0), and building career trajectories
• Advanced knowledge about Effective Communication (feedback, conflict management, negotiation skills and communication influence)
• OKR, SMART, KPI, defining goals and metrics for themselves, direct reports and team
• Basic knowledge about labour law in Poland and data security
• Familiar with tools (Jira, Gitlab, Spreedsheets, AI (GPT, Gemini))
• Polish and English – fluent
• Effective communication (People skills, negotiations, meeting facilitation)
• Programming for JVM (Java, Scala, etc.)
• Experience with cloud systems
• Good technical background – we expect you to support less experienced team members through mentoring and coaching. Your experience will be an invaluable source of support for colleagues, enabling their professional development and expanding their programming skills.
• Hybrid work – 2-3 days in the office. As a manager, your goal is to ensure that you maintain constant contact with the team, both in the office and during remote work.

Your responsibilities as an Engineering Manager will include:

• Encourage team members to assume responsibility, and offer helpful feedback to foster ongoing development
• Maintaining Team procedures by guiding the team through engaged priorities and balance short-term needs versus long-term strategic goals
• Maintaining people aggrements
• Improving PMP and other Company's procedures
• Increasing transparency and communication

What we expect from this role:

• Team and direct reports have defined goals aligned with BU goals
• Strong, highly motivated engineering team with low rotation and hiring plan
• Documented team performance metrics
• Delivered product increments and objectives
• Effective planning and implementation of employee substitution
• Documented and implemented engieerning processes and process improvements

What do we offer:

• Freedom and responsibility. Our goal is to inspire people more than manage them. We want our teams to do what is best for our products. This, in turn, generates a sense of responsibility which drives us to do great work.
• A dream team in which all of your colleagues are extraordinary at what they do and highly effective working together. We model ourselves on a professional sports team, not a family. A family is about unconditional love. A dream team is about pushing yourself to be the best possible teammate. Dream teams are about performance, not seniority or tenure.
• Technical challenges: our customers depend on the reliability of our products to generate revenue in their business. The IoT industry is ever-growing and needs us to support that growth.
• Open-source contribution opportunities
• Access to the best tools and equipment available in the market
• A MacBook Pro / ThinkPad with 2 monitors
• Company events and team building activities
• Flexible working hours
• Training and conferences
• Onsite gym and chillout space
• Multisport card
• Medical care
• Kitchen full of snacks and treats (including Good Lood ice cream)
• Car parking area and bike room
• A relaxed work atmosphere – no dress code, no open space