Engineering Manager – Menu, Web & Android (KrakówGdańsk)

• Named the #1 Restaurant POS by G2(Fall 2025) based on ratings from real users
• Rated thetop-rated point-of-sale(POS) for restaurants bars retail and small businesses by Capterra users
• AwardedGreat Places to Workand Built InsBest Workplacesfor multiple years running

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our Menu engineering teams in building a cuttingedge Point of Sale (POS) platform for restaurants that need fast efficient frontofhouse and kitchen workflows.

The Menu area is at the heart of the hospitality experience: it powers how restaurants model their offerings (menus items modifiers availability and configurations) across all channels instore POS online ordering kitchen and thirdparty integrations. You will own teams working across backend frontend and Android to deliver a reliable flexible and performant menu platform.

The ideal candidate has a strong technical background across backend and frontend with exposure to mobile (Android preferred) experience with microservice architecture and modern web development frameworks. This role is critical for driving product development in the Menu domain ensuring highquality resilient deliverables and fostering a culture of innovation ownership and continuous improvement.

On a daily basis you will:

• Own the Menu domain across the SpotOn POS ecosystem leading and mentoring engineering teams responsible for Menu structure availability logic configuration and propagation of menu data and support orders.
• Lead Frontend Android Backend engineers in the Menu area ensuring strong collaboration and shared domain understanding across platforms.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Support to shape the Menu product vision and roadmap balancing scalability usability and operational needs of restaurants.
• Manage the full software development lifecycle for your teams from discovery and planning through deployment and rollout strategies (feature flags phased rollouts) to ongoing maintenance.
• Foster a culture focused on:
• Code quality testing and observability (unit integration endtoend tests monitoring alerts).
• Clear ownership and accountability for services and features in production.
• Continuous learning and improvement.
• Participate in and guide architectural decisions for:
• Microservices and APIs.
• Crossplatform domain modeling (shared contracts / schemas for Web and Android).
• Performance and reliability at scale (large menus multilocation brands hightraffic periods).
• Implement and optimize development and release processes ensuring:
• Efficient delivery of product features.
• High reliability through CI/CD automated testing and robust rollout / rollback practices.
• Partner with other teams (ordering payments kitchen integrations and more) to ensure Menu is a reliable platform for downstream experiences.
• Recruit develop and retain top engineering talent; build highperforming autonomous teams with clear missions and metrics.
• Drive datadriven decision making by defining and tracking key engineering and product metrics (latency error rates configuration propagation time menu publish success adoption etc.).
• Ensure strong collaboration with support and operations teams using feedback and incident trends to guide product and technical priorities.

What skills are we searching for

• 8 years of software development experience with solid backend fundamentals (distributed systems APIs data modeling).
• 3 years of experience managing software engineering teams (7 people) ideally across multiple platforms (web and/or mobile).
• Willing to come into our Kraków or Gdańsk office 2-3 times per week.
• Experience leading distributed teams and collaborating across US and European time zones with strong async communication and planning skills.
• Demonstrated experience in microservices architecture and API design including versioning backward compatibility and service observability.
• Handson experience or close partnership with mobile development preferably Android (Kotlin); familiarity with web and mobile release cycles and constraints.
• Proficiency with at least one of the following: Golang React Kotlin.
• Extensive experience with backend technologies and microservices including:
• Designing and owning services with clear SLOs
• Working with message queues caches and relational or NoSQL databases.
• Strong knowledge of frontend technologies including JavaScript TypeScript and HTML; experience with React is a strong plus.
• Experience building web and/or mobile applications ideally with offlinetolerant or realtime capabilities.
• Track record of successfully delivering complex crossteam software projects on time and with high quality.
• Proven ability to:
• Set clear goals metrics and expectations for teams.
• Coach and grow engineers and tech leads.
• Navigate tradeoffs between product scope quality and timelines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering product design and customerfacing teams.
• You arent just aware of AI; you leverage it. We are looking for a leader who uses the latest AI tools to optimize their own work and strongly encourages their team to do the same to stay ahead of the curve.
• Strong problemsolving skills and a datadriven approach to decisions.
• Familiarity with AWS and modern CI/CD pipelines (build test deploy and observability tools).
• Knowledge of agile methodologies with experience operating in a multiteam environment (e.g. scaled agile quarterly planning crossteam dependencies).
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field; Masters degree in a relevant field is a plus.
• Experience in hospitality retail or other hightransaction operational domains is a plus.

Heres a bit about what we have to offer:

• Training budget 3500 PLN gross per year.
• Access to e-learning platforms.
• Fully paid private healthcare in LuxMed.
• Access to the Worksmile platform with a monthly top-up.
• Subsidized access to breakfast and lunch through the vending machine in Kraków office and lunches in Gdańsk office once a week.
• Group English classes with a native speaker.
• A laptop and essential work equipment provided by the company.
• New modern bright and comfortable office space in the city centre.
• A lot of free parking spots around the office.
• Access to the companys library.
• Great working atmosphere.
• Chill out room with a PlayStation and games.
• Free snacks and beverages in the kitchen.
• Company parties and social activities.
• Employee referral program.
• Relocation Package within Poland.

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