Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~8–10 systems and backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and high code quality
• Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer of the Bidding Platform focusing on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security
• Define the team's evolving scope as the platform grows, with room to shape areas of interest
• Delegate ownership of platform areas (monitoring, deployment, security) to senior engineers and support them
• Deliver team's capabilities as self-service platforms with clear usage contracts
• Base decisions on data, running experiments and gathering evidence before deciding
• Participate in IT-wide capacity planning for platform scaling
• Own the framework for dispatching on-call alarms and drive elimination of noisy alarms without personal duty rotation

Requirements

• 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Team Lead / Engineering Manager), including leading project teams
• Strong previous hands-on background in distributed systems and systems engineering - deployment, monitoring, databases, and load balancing within large-scale infrastructure
• Comprehensive understanding of complex IT systems spanning hardware, software, and algorithms
• Knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems
• Critical performance analysis skills - from theoretical estimation to production optimization
• Strong programming background and the ability to dive deep into code reviews when needed
• Experience building platform capabilities as products for other engineering teams - defining clear usage contracts and best practices, and driving cross-team technical rollouts by enabling and guiding those teams
• Comfortable owning a technical area end-to-end and communicating across teams
• Self-directed, proactive approach
• C1-level English and Polish fluency

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Benefits