Software Engineering Manager

Location: Poland

At Appfire, we believe that great work happens when people get to choose how they work. After 20 years of creating software that empowers teams to break silos and collaborate seamlessly, we've learned that one size does not fit all. That's why at Appfire, you choose.

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Choose to balance your life without compromise:
Plan your workday around your needs and what matters most to you. Enjoy flexible time off without the hassle of complicated approvals. From day one, we trust you to deliver quality work without sacrificing your personal life, hobbies, loved ones, and well-being.

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Take charge of your professional growth with access to online learning platforms, facilitated training, leadership programs, and internal hackathons. Collaborate with a global team to gain fresh perspectives. When you're ready for a new challenge, our internal mobility program is here to support your journey.

No one knows you better than you do. So join us and customize your experience. Choose how you want to work. Choose Appfire.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced and business-minded Engineering Manager to lead high-performing software engineering teams and shape the future of Appfire's product ecosystem. In this role, you will drive both technical excellence and measurable business impact across products within our Acceleration and Core streams. Your team may contribute to industry-leading solutions such as Big Picture Enterprise - Strategic Management for Jira, 7pace Time tracker for Jira, Advanced Tables for Confluence, Jira Misc Workflow Extensions (JMWE), and other products trusted by thousands of customers worldwide.

This role combines strategic thinking with strong technical leadership and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. We're looking for a leader who:

* Has a proven ability to align engineering strategy with tangible business outcomes, including revenue growth, customer retention, operational efficiency, and cost optimization,

* Demonstrates strong technical judgment and can confidently navigate and communicate pragmatic trade-offs such as speed versus stability, build versus buy, or consistency versus availability,

* Is passionate about influencing across disciplines - partnering effectively with Product, Design, Marketing, Finance, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes,

* Brings a calm, thoughtful, and principled approach to risk management, production incidents, and complex decision-making,

* Excels at building inclusive, high-trust, and collaborative engineering cultures where teams can thrive and grow.

As an Engineering Manager at Appfire, you will play a key role in defining both the short- and long-term direction of our products and engineering organization. You'll be responsible for leading a team of exceptional engineers, guiding technical strategy and architectural decisions, prioritizing work that maximizes customer and business value, and supporting the career growth and development of your team members.

Beyond day-to-day delivery, you will champion continuous improvement across engineering processes, technical health, scalability, and team effectiveness - ensuring your teams remain innovative, resilient, and customer-focused as we continue to grow globally.

Your everyday tasks will include:

* Strategic & Business Alignment:

* Lead the team in delivering customer value.

* Articulate a long-term technical vision for the product.

* Collaborate with Product Management and Design to shape the future of the product.

* Technical & Architectural Leadership:

* Apply technical literacy and judgment to guide the team on system complexity, scalability and reliability.

* Instill habits and practices to manage security, privacy, performance, cost.

* Drive improvements in observability, incidents prevention and response processes.

* Delivery & Operational Excellence:

* Improve delivery predictability, remove friction points from the development process.

* Use operational data to influence future prioritization and drive effective corrective actions.

* Leadership & Team Development:

* Serve as a leader and coach responsible for the development, mentoring, and performance of team members.

* Foster open collaboration and establish/strengthen scalable team processes.

* Practice principled decision-making, encouraging healthy debate and building trust.

Skills and experience you'll need to succeed:

* 7+ years of experience in software development, including 3+ years in a management or technical leadership role (e.g., Team Lead, Engineering Manager).

* Product-oriented mindset, proven ability to connect engineering work to measurable business outcomes (e.g., examples of increased feature adoption, improved…