Software Engineering Manager

Offer summary

• Position: Software Engineering Manager

• Employment type: permanent contract of employment (after 3-month trial period)

• Salary gross (CoE): 23,000–29,000 PLN

• Possible work locations: remote or from our office in WeWork Mennica Tower (ul. Prosta 20, Warszawa – city centre)

• HL Tech size: 65 people in Poland – part of the British Hargreaves Lansdown Group (2,500 colleagues)

• Reporting to: Senior Engineering Manager

• Tribe: Trading   

                                                                                                                                          

Build trading journeys used by millions

Lead an engineering team that designs and ships core trading experiences for the UK’s largest digital investment platform. You’ll work end‑to‑end on HL products with real scale and impact, in a product‑centric environment where engineering, product and operations partner closely.

About Hargreaves Lansdown & HL Tech Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) is a regulated UK financial institution with 40+ years of history, trusted by ~2 million clients and managing £172bn+ in assets. HL Tech is a fully integrated part of HL’s Digital organisation (~700 people). Our mixed Poland–UK teams jointly design, build, and run HL’s platforms, apps, and internal systems. Joining HL Tech means working directly on HL’s products and business critical systems, with real ownership and influence.

Our stack & domain

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to coordinate one of our squads in Pre‑Trade, New Dealing Journeys, or Trade Execution, depending on your experience and team fit. Each squad plays a key role in delivering functionality that matters to clients - from enabling informed investment choices, to streamlining order placement, to ensuring fast and reliable trade execution. Squad assignment will be based on experience and team fit. All squads operate in a dynamic, product-centric environment focused on delivery excellence.

You’ll work with teams using Java (Spring Boot), React and React Native hosted on AWS in distributed, high‑availability systems. We value engineering managers who foster ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement, and who help their teams navigate complex technical and product challenges with clarity and purpose.

What you’ll do -role impact

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across four core areas: people, delivery, technical decision‑making, and strategic alignment. You will act as a bridge between engineering and business, ensuring that technical decisions support the product direction and client goals. You won’t write code day‑to‑day, but a strong technical background is essential to understand the systems you own and guide your team effectively.

• Co‑own the product roadmap with your Product Manager: define outcomes, slice scope effectively, and make data‑informed trade‑offs across value, effort and risk.

• Driving technical decision-making, setting best practices, reviewing code/architecture, and collaborating on product specifications.

• Forecast delivery using capacity and flow metrics; communicate realistic timelines and risks early.

• Set engineering guard‑rails (scope, quality, NFRs, best practices) and empower the team to design the best solutions within them.

• Champion observability and operational excellence, ensuring SLOs, alerting and production health are visible and actively managed.

• Partner with tech leads and architects on system design and evolution; bring structured thinking to complex, distributed environments.

• Support a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement, helping your team navigate complex technical and product challenges with clarity and purpose.

• Grow people and teams: set goals, provide actionable feedback, recognise achievements, hire talent, and support autonomy, mastery and purpose.

• Remove blockers, align cross‑functionally, and maintain a predictable and healthy shipping cadence.

What you bring

• Strong engineering background and the ability to discuss architecture, design patterns, non‑functional requirements and technical trade‑offs, essential for leading engineering teams effectively.

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in complex, regulated or high‑scale environments.

• The ability to bridge engineering, product, and business needs, partnering closely with Product Managers and stakeholders.

• Clear communication, structured thinking and evidence‑based decision‑making.

• Excellent stakeholder and delivery management skills.

• Languages: Polish & English at C1 (used daily).

Benefits

• Copyrights (50% tax relief due to creative type of work)

• PPE (4% employer contribution without any additional cost nor employee contributions required)

• Annual bonus based on performance

• Private health care & Life insurance

• MyBenefit Cafeteria (benefits platform)

• 2 additional days for volunteering events

• Team events

• The Buddy programme

• Opportunity to grow according to your level of expertise

• Working with new technologies and a multi-diverse team

• Many opportunities to exchange knowledge and ideas

• In-house Trainings

We are an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.