Engineering Squad Lead (Payments)

Engineering Squad Lead(Payments)
(Hybrid/Kraków 1 day per week in the office)

WereKingfisher a team made up of over74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama B&Q Screwfix BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.Thatsrightwerebig but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. Andthatswhere you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from allwalks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity genderexpressionor sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our officelocatedin Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encouragenew ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• 25000 - 31000 PLN grossper month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family

• Medicoversports card (Fit&Morepackage)

• Life insurance financed by the employer

• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day

• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere

• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role

• Wellbeing programme for employees

• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow

• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office

• Language courses accounting courses access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification

• Employee referral programme

About the role

As an Engineering Squad Lead you willbe responsible forsupporting and developing team members while ensuring the consistent and effective delivery of team outcomes. Working in close partnership with Product Owners you will strengthen collaboration within the team ensure alignment with wider businessobjectives and contribute to ongoing improvements in ways of working.

You will actively mentor and support engineers through regular feedback and coaching using your technicalexpertiseand leadership skills to maximise the teams effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a line manager for team members supporting their professional development career progression and overall wellbeing through regular feedback coaching and performance conversations.

• Plan coordinate and oversee the delivery of team commitments ensuring alignment with agreed customer product and engineering outcomes.

• Take ownership of driving continuous improvement in team performance effectiveness and operational efficiency by refining ways of working and delivery practices.

• Provide ongoing coaching guidance and constructive feedback to help team members develop their technical and professional capabilities.

• Collaborate closely with Chapter Leaders to share updates on delivery progress support capability building and enable both individual and team-wide development.

• Leverage strong software engineeringexpertisealongside effective leadership skills to shape the teams impact andmaintainhigh engineering standards.

• Establish clear goals and ensure alignment with wider organisationalobjectivesmonitoringprogress and addressing risks to support continuous delivery and improvement.

• Extensive experience in software development with a background in web technologies (backend or frontend) and/or quality engineering.

• Strong understanding of the IT industry including emerging technologies trends and their relevance to retail or similar sectors.

• Proven experience leading and motivating teams in large complex and fast-paced matrix environments.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to build relationships across the organisation.

• Excellent communication collaboration and leadership skills.

• Ability to solve complex problems work effectively in ambiguous situations and deliver practical solutions.

• Passion for people leadership including coaching mentoring and talent development.

• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and high-performing team culture.

• Understanding of modern QA methodologies.

• Solid understanding of infrastructure concepts and experience working with automation and test frameworks.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)