Engineering Manager

At Text.com, we're building smarter communication solutions that transform how businesses connect with customers. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and support engineers across 3-4 product teams working on interconnected areas. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with Bartosz, our VP of Engineering, to guide the team in delivering high-quality software while maintaining a collaborative, high-performance culture. You'll balance speed and quality to deliver impactful results.

Here’s what you’ll be up to:

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide engineers across multiple product teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and excellence. You’ll focus on:

• Team performance: Drive improvements in lead time for changes, ensuring high code quality, and minimizing change failure rates.
• Collaboration & development: Mentor your team, actively supporting new members and fostering customer-oriented engineering culture.
• Business impact: Ensure technical changes align with product goals and user needs, collaborating closely with VP of Engineering to define the technical direction.
• Initiative & growth: Lead process improvements, encourage proactive problem-solving, and foster continuous learning within your team.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an experienced leader who has successfully scaled engineering teams at a large product company, ideally in the SaaS space. You should have a track record of actively building a culture of quality, accountability, and high performance. You will be someone who has experience in managing multiple teams and driving impactful technical initiatives. This is a role where you will directly influence the growth and success of the engineering team and collaborate closely with product and leadership teams to align technology with business goals.

Requirements:

• Experience in scaling teams: Strong experience in managing engineering teams at scale, especially in a product-focused environment, ideally SaaS.
• Culture of quality & delivery: Proven experience in establishing and maintaining a culture of quality, ownership, and delivering results consistently.
• Leadership in high-impact projects: Ability to lead complex, high-impact projects from ideation to delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely execution.
• Technical leadership: Deep technical expertise and the ability to make high-level decisions on architecture, performance, and scalability.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work closely with product management, design, and other teams to align engineering efforts with business goals.
• People management: Experience in mentoring and developing engineers, fostering an environment of growth, learning, and accountability.
• Communication skills: Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders at all levels.

Technical Expertise:

• Web technologies: Strong experience with web technologies: backend, frontend or fullstack. Our tech stack includes mainly JavaScript (React, Node.js) and Go, but you don’t need to excel in all of them.
• System design: Expertise in building scalable and reliable systems, with knowledge of microservices and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Quality standards: Ensure high engineering standards in code quality, test coverage, and documentation. Maintain modern software engineering practices across the team.
• Architecture: Lead efforts in designing fault-tolerant systems and optimizing infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.

Leadership & Management:

• Mentorship: Provide actionable feedback to support the growth of junior and mid-level engineers. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Align engineering efforts with product goals. Facilitate effective communication with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Work directly with Bartosz (VP of Engineering) to shape technical direction.
• Ownership & impact: Empower your team to take ownership of their work, encouraging innovation and proactive problem-solving.

The way we work:

We have implemented a hybrid workplace, in which our team in Wrocław and nearby (up to 50 km), follows a 3/2 model: three days in the office to foster creativity, teamwork, and social interaction, and two days working from home.

If you’re based outside of Wrocław, you'll work in the office for three days each month to maintain valuable face-to-face connections, while continuing to contribute significantly to product development remotely.