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The company partners with clients, helping them solve complex challenges across investor services and capital markets. Their culture is built on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and empowering individuals to contribute beyond their immediate role.\nAs a Technical Engineering Manager, you will become the technical and people leader for the platform engineering team in Kraków, reporting to a Managing Director in the United States. You will lead the development of the platform’s non-AI foundation: its workflow orchestration engine, data-processing services, APIs, integration framework, PostgreSQL model, and reliability and governance capabilities.\nThis is an architecture-led player-coach position. You will not be expected to spend most of your time implementing regular development tickets. However, you must remain sufficiently close to the technology to lead system design, challenge architectural decisions, review critical solutions, and help engineers resolve the platform’s most difficult technical problems.\nKey takeaways:\nStack: Python or Java, Temporal or Cadence, PostgreSQL, Azure or AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, REST, GraphQL, Terraform, Kafka or equivalent event-streaming technology\nSalary: 35 000-41 000 PLN gross monthly, Contract of Employment (directly with the client)\nWorking model: 3 days per week in the office; eligible parents of children up to four years old may work from the office 2 days per week\nAdditional info: International team meetings approximately once per quarter, potentially involving 1-2 weeks of travel\nLocation: Krakow, Poland\nRecruitment process:\nA call with Motife recruiter \nTechnical discussions,\nOn-site meeting in Krakow,\nFinal leadership conversation\nResponsibilities:\nTechnical and People Leadership\nProvide technical and people leadership to the platform engineering team in Kraków.\nEstablish scalable engineering practices, architectural standards, and decision-making principles.\nMentor engineers, support their professional development, and help build a strong permanent local team.\nPartner with senior technical leadership in the United States on platform direction, priorities, and delivery.\nCreate an environment in which strong engineers can work independently while remaining aligned on architecture and product goals.\nWorkflow and Data Platform Architecture\nLead the architecture of the workflow orchestration layer built around Temporal.\nGuide the design of durable, idempotent, fault-tolerant, and observable data-processing workflows.\nOversee the PostgreSQL data model supporting integration configuration, transformation versioning, execution history, and data lineage.\nShape the architecture of REST and GraphQL APIs, core platform services, customer integrations, and source and destination connectors.\nDefine patterns for retries, replay, recovery, workflow versioning, compensation, and partial-failure handling.\nEnsure reliable integration and clear separation between the deterministic platform layer and the product’s AI capabilities.\nReliability, Security, and Governance\nEstablish platform reliability practices, including SLAs and SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and disaster recovery.\nGuide the implementation of audit trails, immutable logging, access controls, data masking, and encryption.\nEnsure that sensitive financial data is processed securely and remains traceable throughout its lifecycle.\nEnsure the platform remains highly available, performant, secure, and cost-effective as it scales.\nWork with Cloud Engineering on infrastructure requirements, deployment architecture, and security posture.\nProduct Delivery and Collaboration\nWork closely with AI Engineering, Product, Design, QA, and Cloud Engineering across Kraków and the United States.\nTranslate evolving product and customer requirements into pragmatic technical decisions.\nBalance the 2027 pilot timeline with long-term enterprise architecture, reliability, and governance requirements.\nHelp the team operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where requirements and organizational structures continue to evolve.\nProvide technical direction when the team encounters complex architectural or production problems.\nRequirements:\nEngineering and Leadership Experience\nAt least seven years of experience in software, backend, or platform engineering.\nAt least three years of technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.\nExperience leading and developing engineers while remaining closely involved in system design and complex technical decisions.\nA track record of establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical roadmaps.\nExperience building a new product or platform, or leading a significant architectural transformation from an early stage.\nAbility to make pragmatic decisions in an environment with incomplete requirements and changing priorities.\nBackend and Distributed Systems\nStrong engineering background in Python or Java.\nProduction experience with Temporal or Cadence.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.\nPractical experience designing idempotent workflows, retries, compensation mechanisms, replay, and other durable-execution patterns.\nExperience designing REST APIs; GraphQL experience is strongly valued.\nUnderstanding of event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or Kinesis.\nData, Cloud, and Infrastructure\nStrong PostgreSQL experience, including data modeling, schema design, indexing, and query optimization.\nExperience building and operating production systems on Azure or AWS.\nPractical knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.\nFamiliarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.\nExperience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability.\nUnderstanding of high availability, disaster recovery, performance, and scalability.\nAI-Enabled Product Experience\nExperience contributing to an AI-enabled product or working closely with AI or machine-learning engineering teams.\nUnderstanding of how AI components integrate with dependable backend and workflow services.\nAbility to discuss the evaluation, monitoring, governance, and operational risks of AI capabilities in production.\nFamiliarity with LLM integration patterns or agentic frameworks such as LangChain or Agno would be beneficial.\nFinancial Data and Enterprise Governance\nExperience in one or more of the following areas will be particularly valuable:\nFinancial services, payments, investment data, insurance, or another regulated environment\nSensitive financial-data processing\nData integration, transformation, reconciliation, or connector platforms\nData lineage, audit trails, immutable logging, or transformation versioning\nMulti-tenant enterprise SaaS architecture\nEvent sourcing, CQRS, or saga patterns\nEncryption, tokenization, data masking, and role-based access controls\nSystems operating under strict SLAs, business-continuity, and disaster-recovery requirements\nCommunication and Working Model\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work with highly technical engineers and senior international stakeholders.\nAbility to collaborate effectively across Engineering, AI, Product, Design, QA, and Cloud teams.\nWillingness to work from the Kraków office 3 days per week.\nWillingness to travel internationally approximately once per quarter.\nExisting right to work in Poland; visa and work-permit sponsorship is not available.\nWhat we offer:\nDirect cooperation with highly experienced technical and product leaders in Poland and the United States.\nPrivate medical care.\nLife insurance.\nConfidential counselling and support for personal, family, financial, and legal matters.\nProfessional training and support for relevant qualifications.\nA comprehensive wellbeing programme.\nAccess to an online social-benefits platform.\nSocial, sports, and integration events.\nA structured onboarding programme.\nOne Culture Celebration Day and one Community Service Day in addition to the standard annual leave allowance.\nReady to join?\nThis role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys solving difficult, ambiguous problems and wants to help build both a product and an engineering organization from an early stage.\nYou do not need to have followed a conventional career path or meet every preferred qualification. If you bring strong platform-engineering foundations, technical leadership experience, and the ability to operate effectively in a changing product environment, we encourage you to apply.\nMOTIFE is coordinating the recruitment process. 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