Mobile Software Engineering Manager

Contract & Working Model

Type of contract: FTE

Working model: Hybrid (3xweek at the office in Kraków)

Our client, a UK-based global innovative company in the area of utility engineering, is expanding its IT structures in a new office in Kraków. They are building 3 mobile teams working on their super smart home app, which is at the forefront of IoT and customer experience. Their app has an App Store and Google Play rating of 4.5 and 4.3 stars respectively, over 1million active users worldwide, and the IoT platform has over 4million connected machines.

About the Role

We are looking for Engineering Managers to lead teams of mobile app engineers. Communication, collaboration, self‑evaluation and a desire to improve are second nature to you, and you value good software engineering practices. You understand the need to deliver quality while delivering efficiently.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with your team to contribute features and improvements to the app, ensuring they are robust, scalable and covered by tests
• Conduct 1:1s with your team members, setting objectives that develop them towards their career goals and evaluating their performance
• Instill a test‑first attitude in our developers; help our test engineers write better code
• Help define and execute a test strategy that ensures we deliver quality software
• Collaborate with your Engineering Manager peers to ensure teams collaborate effectively and the right choices are made
• Work with everyone in the wider team: TPOs, Scrum Masters, cloud developers, UX/UI designers and embedded software engineers
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters on team development and monitor metrics to assess progress
• Work with TPOs and other stakeholders to assess risks and dependencies to aid decision making
• Identify new technologies and tools to help continually improve standards

About you

• You’re interested in how technology can improve the environments people live in
• You’re a collaborative person that believes in the Agile principles and how they can help empowered teams deliver the best software
• You’ve contributed to mobile applications that have delighted their users, as a developer or test engineer
• You’re passionate about learning new things and sharing those things with others
• You know how to get the best work out of people, understanding the role played by motivations and working environment
• You get satisfaction from solving real‑world problems with well‑crafted software

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Private healthcare
• Multi‑cafeteria platform
• Lunch subsidiary
• Internal pension system
• Life insurance