Engineering Manager

SpotOn

Engineering Manager leading the Express POS Checkout & Payments Experience team at SpotOn. Focus on enhancing checkout processes for independent restaurants with modern technology.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeKraków • 🇵🇱 PolandJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidDistributed SystemsKafka

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture across distributed time zones, optimizing for asynchronous communication and aligned execution.
Own engineering execution for all checkout flows, including card and cash payments, split payments, tipping, discounts, gift cards, refunds, voids, receipts, offline flows, and related order/payment data.
Partner with Product and Design to define and deliver customer-centered checkout experiences for restaurant operators, staff, and guests.
Collaborate with the Financial Services team to integrate with and influence SpotOn’s internal Payments SDK.
Drive improvements in key product and operational metrics, including end-to-end checkout time, checkout success rate, crash-free sessions, payment accuracy, support case frequency, and incident frequency.
Create strong engineering practices for quality, testing, observability, incident readiness, and production support in an environment where engineers own outcomes end-to-end.
Serve in SpotOn’s Engineering Manager incident commander rotation and actively support checkout and payment-related incidents within the application.
Build clear plans, manage delivery risks, communicate status proactively, and ensure stakeholders have the context needed to make informed decisions.
Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, career development, and thoughtful delegation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience directly managing software engineers, with demonstrated success coaching, mentoring, evaluating, and developing technical talent.
A proven track record as a senior or staff-level engineer prior to transitioning into management, with a deep understanding of production software systems.
Deep experience with native Android application development.
Familiarity with modern backend services and distributed systems; experience or exposure to Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and Kafka is a strong plus.
Proven success leading product-focused engineering teams across distributed locations and time zones (specifically working between the US and Europe).
Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture, review designs, ask the right questions, and help teams make pragmatic tradeoffs without needing to be the primary hands-on coder.
Experience improving reliability, performance, and operational quality through metrics, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Ability to collaborate deeply with Product and Design to turn ambiguous customer and business problems into clear engineering plans.
A strong bias toward action, balanced with exceptional judgment around quality, reliability, and customer impact.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Training budget 3500 PLN gross per year.
Access to e-learning platforms (O’Reilly).
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.
New Macbook Pro, 4K monitors or whatever tools you need.
Flexible working hours.
New, modern, bright and comfortable office space in the city centre.
Access to the company’s library.
Great working atmosphere.
Chill out room with a PlayStation and games.
Free snacks and beverages in a kitchen.
Company parties and social activities.
Employee referral program.
Relocation Package within Poland.
Parking space in the underground garage.

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Hard Skills & Tools

native Android application developmentbackend servicesdistributed systemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureKafkaengineering executioncheckout flowspayment accuracyincident responsecontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

coachingmentoringevaluatingdeveloping technical talenttechnical judgmentcollaborationcommunicationproactive status updatesrisk managementaction bias