Engineering Manager

Statscore! 

We are one of the world's leading companies in the field of providing innovative products for the sports industry. We collect, organize and deliver high-quality sports data helping sports enthusiasts, media and betting organizations achieve their goals. 

We connect people through what we do and create a better world for sport, every single day! 

Products? 

All of our products are built in-house and are strictly related to sport. We are serving our customers with in-play live visualizations, as well as sports statistics widgets and raw data provided by our SportsAPI. All the features are created by using new technologies and best practices around the process of software development. 

What role will you take on a team? 

We are currently looking for experienced talents who would like to join our R&D group and work with us to solve complex problems in a simple way!  

Your role as EM requires quality engineering experience and great management skills to guide and coach the individuals in your engineers' teams and help them grow and develop proper skills.  

You will spend your time mostly on the following: 

- process management and technological improvements (~70%) 

- people management work (~20%) 

- recruitment and administrative tasks (~10%) 

Your responsibilities: 

• Actively foster healthy teams 
• Provide personal support, onboarding and regular 1:1 meetings 
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve team efficiency and product quality 
• Take an active part in creating a technological development roadmap 
• Perform technical analysis and feasibility studies for proposed product features 
• Ensure technical feasibility of product features and drive architectural decisions 
• Determine processes and metrics to ensure products are market-ready 
• Bridge the gap between product vision and engineering execution 
• Cost tracking and management skills 
• Cooperate with Product, IT, Architecture, DevOps and CTO 

Our expectations: 

• Have 5+ years of experience building modern web applications in a commercial environment (software development background) 
• Have 2+ years of experience in managing team and individuals: performance evaluation, facilitating meetings, guiding career paths as Team / Tech Lead or Engineering Manager 
• Knowledge and good understanding of sport rules 
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle and delivering 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL / NoSQL queries) 
• Experience in building APIs for high-availability and scalability products 
• Experience with architecture and software design patterns 
• Experience in identifying people’s needs and talents 
• Have well-balanced results and people orientation 
• Have strong interpersonal skills and fluent in English (B2 at least) 
• Ability to create an organization that understands how to balance technical debt vs. business goals 
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility 

Would be your advantage: 

• Languages including PHP or TypeScript 
• Experience with AMQP (RabbitMq), Postman, Redis, cache services 
• Understanding of service-to-service dependencies in architecture 
• Ability to identify and mitigate coupling, performance bottlenecks, and failure propagation risks 

How do we work? 

We work in self-organizing Scrum teams. Test writing and code refactoring are our daily bread.  

We are taking care of the technological debt and the quality of the code.  

We plan our Sprint goals every 2 weeks and use OKRs every quarter of planning.  

We speak both Polish (internally) and English (with our partners). 

We work in hybrid mode with flexible hours, from home or the office in Katowice (no dress code). 

Team & working conditions: 

• Annual performance bonus 
• Private medical care 
• Life insurance 
• Lunch cards 
• Sport cards 
• Professional training & courses + English language courses 
• Integration events, family picnics 
• Additional days off for birthdays, volunteer work 
• Employee referral program 
• Fruits / coffee / tea / drinks 
• Fun office activities in our leisure zone such as table football, play station, board games, darts 
• Welcome pack 
• All the equipment you need (Macbook, extra monitor, headphones), you only have to bring your talent! 

Recruitment process: 

The entire process will take up to 2.5 hours: 

• Screening - phone call (30 min) 
• Interview with HR Manager and Hiring Manager – on-site meeting (60 min) 
• Final interview with Hiring Manager and CTO – on-site meeting (60 min)