Engineering Lead

Role

An Engineering Lead will establish and lead the Warsaw engineering hub for an AI-native platform serving aerospace, defense, and industrial supply-chain operations.

They will build and manage a full-stack engineering team, set technical direction, maintain delivery standards, and remain close enough to the code and architecture to make high-quality engineering decisions.

This is a full-time, on-site role requiring five days per week in Warsaw and occasional international travel.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and develop a Warsaw-based engineering team of approximately 10 engineers.
• Own hiring plans, technical interviews, onboarding, performance management, and team development.
• Lead delivery of full-stack SaaS products used internationally across operationally complex supply-chain workflows.
• Define and maintain engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, security, and deployment.
• Work hands-on with TypeScript, Svelte, PostgreSQL, APIs, and distributed SaaS systems when technical decisions or delivery risks require direct intervention.
• Partner with founders and product stakeholders to convert business requirements into sequenced technical plans and shipped outcomes.
• Establish delivery processes that provide clear ownership, predictable execution, and early visibility into technical risks.
• Review system designs and major pull requests, ensuring solutions are maintainable, secure, testable, and appropriate for production scale.
• Drive effective use of AI coding tools across the team, including defining practical standards for adoption, review, testing, and responsible use.
• Coordinate with international teams and stakeholders, including up to one week of international travel per quarter.

Required experience

• 10+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering people-management experience.
• Experience directly leading an engineering team of approximately 10 people.
• Proven ownership of internationally deployed SaaS products in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and modern full-stack web development.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and production API development.
• Experience setting engineering standards across architecture, testing, code review, deployment, and operational reliability.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Willingness to work on-site in Warsaw five days per week.
• Willingness to relocate to Warsaw if not already based there.

Technical environment

• TypeScript.
• Svelte or an equivalent modern frontend framework.
• PostgreSQL or another production relational database.
• Full-stack SaaS architecture.
• Internationally deployed applications.
• AI coding tools integrated into engineering workflows.

Success measures

• A Warsaw engineering team is hired, onboarded, and operating with clear ownership.
• The team delivers production SaaS functionality against agreed priorities and timelines.
• Engineering standards are consistently applied across code review, testing, architecture, deployment, and incident response.
• Product reliability, maintainability, and delivery predictability improve as the Warsaw hub scales.
• AI coding tools improve engineering throughput without reducing code quality, security, or review standards.
• Technical decisions support international customers and operationally complex workflows.