Engineering Manager - Backend (Transcend)

About the role

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a team of talented engineers, driving the delivery of high-quality software solutions that create measurable value—especially under time constraints. You’ll be responsible for technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

You’ll work in close partnership with Product Managers to shape and refine requirements, ensuring that business needs are clearly understood and translated into actionable technical solutions. This collaboration is key to aligning priorities, managing scope, and delivering features that truly matter to our customers and partners.

You’ll also need the ability to operate in a customer-facing environment building trust, understanding partner needs, and translating feedback into meaningful product and engineering outcomes.

This role demands startup-like agility: the ability to pivot quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and deliver value in an environment where speed and adaptability are key to success.

You’ll also play a key role in building relationships with our retail partners, which may include occasional travel and flexible working hours to accommodate different time zones.

What is in it for you

Hybrid working

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.

Benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities

• MacBook as your tool for work

• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy

• Referral Bonus

• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance

• Private healthcare (LuxMed)

• Cafeteria & Multisport

• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days

• Relocation Help

• IP Tax Deductible Costs

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you!

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

You will be responsible for

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions

• Design secure, performant, and maintainable system architectures and APIs

• Guide the team in writing clean, efficient, and testable code

• Oversee testing and quality assurance to ensure reliability and performance

• Manage deployments, monitor system health, and optimize performance

• Provide production support and participate in on-call rotations

• Conduct regular 1:1s, coach team members, and support career development

• Build high-performing teams that consistently deliver value within tight timeframes

• Represent your team in cross-functional technical discussions

• Define and prioritize features for services owned by your team

• Continuously improve engineering practices and team processes

• Act as a bridge between engineering and external stakeholders, ensuring technical solutions align with customer expectations and business goals

You will need

• Thrives in a fast-moving, startup-like environment where priorities shift and speed matters

• Comfortable working directly with customers and external partners to understand needs and deliver tailored solutions

• Ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proactive, value-driven mindset with strong problem-solving abilities

• Experience mentoring and developing engineersTrack record of owning projects end-to-end and providing technical leadership

• Strong system design and architecture skills

• Practical experience with cloud platforms (Azure or similar)

• Experience in high-scale environments (e.g., e-commerce, millions of API calls)

• Fluent English with excellent communication skills

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams (approx. 8 people)

About us

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 colleagues. 

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it. 

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and India. 

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco: 

• We develop our own products 

• We make an impact; large scale of operation 

• Accountability and respect are given to us 

• We cooperate and support each other 

• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here 

• We can develop and learn new things