Embedded Software Engineering Manager

VIOTAS

Embedded Software Engineering Manager leading a team to develop solutions for renewable energy optimization. Overseeing software delivery and enhancing engineering practices in a collaborative environment.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeKraków • 🇵🇱 PolandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, support, and develop a team of Embedded Software Engineers, including workload planning, mentoring, onboarding, performance review, and capability development.
Own day-to-day software delivery operation for the team, including Kanban flow, backlog refinement, priority alignment, and progress tracking.
Coordinate embedded software releases, ensuring that scope, quality, release notes, known risks, and deployment dependencies are clearly managed before release.
Foster a practical AI-assisted development environment where tools such as coding assistants, automation, and documentation support are used responsibly to improve engineering productivity and quality.
Work closely with Hardware, Manufacturing, Field Operations, Cloud, and other stakeholders to ensure embedded software delivery is aligned with product, operational, and customer needs.
Translate business and product priorities into clear engineering work items including acceptance criteria.
Improve engineering transparency by maintaining clear reporting on delivery progress, risks, blockers, resource constraints, technical debt, and release readiness.
Support technical decision-making by facilitating design reviews, implementation planning, defect triage, and root-cause investigation.
Drive continuous improvement in embedded software development practices, including code review discipline, documentation, test coverage, CI/CD usage, release governance, and maintainability.
Ensure software development activities are appropriately documented and traceable across requirements, implementation, verification, and release evidence.
Identify delivery, quality, and technical, risks early, escalate where required, and coordinate mitigation plans with the Head of Embedded Systems and relevant stakeholders.
Support recruitment, onboarding, skills development, and long-term capability planning for the Embedded Software Engineering Team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering management experience.
Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and deliver complex software work.
Strong understanding of software and product lifecycle.
Practical experience managing engineering backlogs.
Ability to work effectively across hardware, software, manufacturing, field operations, and business stakeholders.
Sufficient technical depth to understand embedded software architecture, interfaces, debugging challenges, integration risks, and release quality concerns.
Experience supporting release management, defect triage, incident follow-up, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
Ability to mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, support professional development, and create a collaborative engineering culture.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to prioritisation, and risk management.
Experience improving engineering practices, such as CI/CD adoption, automated testing, documentation quality, code review process, development workflows, or engineering metrics.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

embedded software developmentsoftware engineering managementrelease managementdefect triageroot-cause analysisCI/CDautomated testingcode reviewbacklog managementengineering metrics

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationanalytical skillsproblem-solvingplanningcoordinationprioritizationrisk managementcontinuous improvement