Software Engineering Manager

We are Exponea, an internationally renowned e-commerce cloud – a customer‑centric platform, combining advanced data analytics and omni‑channel campaign execution. We help our clients maximize profits and optimize marketing spend by targeting the right customers with the right content at the right time.

We are currently expanding our 60 people team and are looking for a new colleague to join as an Engineering Manager managing part of the team with specific focus on one of the core components of Exponea. Could you be who we’re looking for?

What you might like about this role:
- You will be working with the best in class engineers delivering industry leader product
- Besides your team(s), you will be working together with other software engineering managers, VP of Engineering and CPO
- There is no other company in CEE region working with real-time data on such a scale in SaaS vertical
- We are considered by Google as one of the most advanced users of their technologies and platform and you’ll be building on it
- Moving to the latest technology is in our DNA pushing us to constant improvement, it will be your decision what is the next best upgrade
- You are part of product prioritization with ability to influence future product roadmap

Tasks and responsibilities
- Ensure the team works well – is motivated, coherent and sees purpose in what they do
- Ensure the team delivers on company objectives and reach expectations of internal and external customers of Exponea. This can be achieved by, but not only:
a. Right allocation and management of time of your people
b. Involving right people in decision making process
c. Balancing technical vs. business requirements and needs
d. Managing on-duty services
e. Communicate both into the team and into the organisation
- Execute Performance management and People development in the team.
a. Balancing needs of individual, team (tech, team setup) and company (business)
b. Staffing, hiring, compensation proposals

You will be challenged when you join with projects like:
- Sharing the knowledge of most senior engineers across the team in easily replicable way
- Joining prioritization committee and ensuring the best balance of technical projects aligned with business goals and requirements
- Staffing the team to align capacities with growing needs of the company

Our tech stack & scale:
We deliver experiences at scale:
- More than 2 billion customer profiles updates per day
- More than 15 billion of behavioral events processed monthly
- More than 50 billion data points analysed regularly every day and used to trigger personalized experiences for billions of visitors worldwide

These experiences are build on top of:
- Our own in-memory database IMF built in C++
- Combination of Google stack like Kubernetes, Bigtable, BigQuery, DataFlow etc.
- Databases like MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Development languages Python and GO

More things you might like about Exponea:
- A great deal of freedom and trust. At Exponea we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. We are interested in results from day one. The freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility.
- Learning, personal development and professional growth.
- Entrepreneurship and leadership lessons. You will gather valuable know-how for your own business. Our CEO Peter Irikovský’s goal is to support our people in starting their own successful businesses. Easier done with the money and know-how you will have obtained here.
- Flexible working hours. Remote work and home office are possible.
- Reward based on your commitment and capabilities.
- An easy-to-access downtown office.
- Coaching sessions with our communication and talent development expert, Ivo Večeřa.
- Free lunches in Exponea Foodie Club restaurants.
- Friendly atmosphere and motivated colleagues who like what they do.

What we expect of the candidate

Must have
- Experience of leading technology teams and projects (ideally B2B).
- Technology background (ideally as a developer)
- Motivation and willingness to get your hands dirty with projects with high level of uncertainty
- Hands on experience with technologies mentioned above, either via managing a team working with them or using them directly.
- Independence, self-organization, ability to navigate ambiguous situations.
- Fluency in English to be able to lead English speaking team.

Nice to have
- Work experience in B2B SaaS in online retail/e-commerce analytics, marketing.
- Work experience in engineering team in retail/commerce companies