Engineering Manager

• Kraków
• Hybrid

Job Description

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity improving engineering effectiveness and helping engineers deliver with confidence Do you care about backend full-stack and DevOps capability as much as you care about people leadership If so wed love to hear from you.

As a part of our vision to enrich peoples lives through stories we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind Podmes product experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our backend full-stack and DevOps this role you will help create the clarity capability and delivery conditions behind reliable and scalable product development.

This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media and to work with teams that combine quality engineering product thinking and care for the listener experience.

ABOUT PODME:

Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350000 paying subscribers were available in Sweden Norway and Finland and part of Schibsted Media since 2021.

Our vision is to enrich peoples lives through stories which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy meaning and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives.

Were a friendly and passionate team of 80 people here to make listening effortless inspiring and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media the largest media group in Scandinavia we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity reliability and sustainable delivery.

WHY JOIN PODME:

At Podme we believe in the power of audio stories to inform entertain and inspire. Backed by Schibsted one of the Nordics leading media groups were on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden Norway and Finland.

• Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base.
• Lead the backend full-stack and DevOps specialty behind key product capabilities while strengthening engineering standards and ways of working across teams and locations.
• Work closely with product technology and business stakeholders on problems that affect core user and business flows.
• Hybrid setup based in Krakow with collaboration across Poland Sweden and Bosnia
• Travel to Stockholm approximately 2-3 times per year
• Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme
• Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks

Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience.

Your next great challenge starts here.

Apply now and lets build something great together.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Lead support and develop a distributed group of backend full-stack and DevOps engineers through coaching feedback growth planning and clear role expectations.
• Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support.
• Maintain visibility of capability ownership staffing needs consultant dependency and succession risks.
• Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with Product Managers System Architect and other functions to enable effective delivery and quality outcomes.
• Surface technical debt reliability risks infrastructure constraints and operational needs early to enable informed decisions.
• Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability observability security performance and operational excellence.
• Improve deployment confidence production ownership and incident learning while reducing reliance on unclear ownership or key individuals.

ABOUT YOU

You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support backend platform full-stack and DevOps trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work.

• Experience leading coaching mentoring or developing engineers.
• Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus.
• Understanding of modern software delivery practices.
• Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy.
• Ability to explain engineering trade-offs risks and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Clear communication and relationship-building skills.
• Cost-conscious approach to staffing tooling infrastructure and technical decisions.
• Professional-level Polish and English communication skills.

We know strong engineering leaders can come from different paths. If this role and mission resonate with you wed be glad to hear from you.

Nice to have:

• Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants.
• Experience with subscription media audio video or consumer products.
• Experience with platform reliability infrastructure-as-code observability incident learning or developer experience.
• Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering experimentation capability or engineering productivity improvements.

We work in a hybrid way and would like to catch up with you at our vibrant and colourful office in Kraków 2 days per week. This allows for collaboration and meaningful connections with the team. If youre not the working-from-home kind of person you are of course welcome in our office every day!