Engineering Manager - Backend (Profile team)

Tesco Poland  •  Kraków  •  Hybrid  •  Full-Time  •  Permanent  •  Apply by 30-Sep-2025 About the role

We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to lead one of our Profile teams. This is a great opportunity to grow your leadership career while working on diverse and high-impact challenges across customer data and communications.

Your first area of focus will be driving the delivery of a new system for auditing customer data and automating critical legal requirements. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and product teams in both the UK and Poland, helping shape our approach to data governance, legal compliance, wider architecture and ways of working.

 

What is in it for you

Salary

UoP: 31 000 - 40 000 PLN gross/month

Hybrid working

We always welcome conversations about flexible working, so feel free to talk to us during your application about how we can support you. We value connecting, collaborating, and innovating with our colleagues in person. 

At Tesco Technology, we work in a hybrid model. This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as we currently meet in the office 3 days a week.

Benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• MacBook as your tool for work
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
• Referral Bonus
• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Private healthcare (LuxMed)
• Cafeteria & Multisport
• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days
• Relocation Help
• IP Tax Deductible Costs

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

You will be responsible for

• Leading and developing high-performing engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, and clear growth opportunities.
• Driving technical strategy, ensuring the right trade-offs to deliver quality products aligned with business goals.
• Creating and maintaining a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Ensuring effective delivery by embedding the right processes, standards, and practices across teams.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver meaningful customer outcomes.

You will need

Technical Skills:

• Experience in delivering Java 8+ (or any other JVM language) based software solutions using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Kotlin, etc

• Proficiency with test suites like Junit, Mockito, and Wire mock

• Experience and familiarity with Public Cloud platforms such as Azure

• Strong knowledge of software and architectural design patterns

• Comfortable with DevOps practices involving configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, IaaC, deployment patterns, etc