You are a dynamic Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager with a blend of 8+ years of Software Development and technical people leadership experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative team, where you will have a direct impact on the customer experience.

Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!

What you’ll do:

Lead and mentor engineers across core teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture with clear guidance and support.
Guide architectural and technical decisions, ensuring best practices in development, testing, and deployment while aligning platform strategy with business goals.
Act as the lead on a Scrum team, facilitating agile processes and ensuring alignment with sprint goals and deliverables.
Oversee the design, development, and delivery of web applications using technologies like Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Postgres, and AWS.
Diagnose and resolve technical issues, emphasizing quality and maintainability through comprehensive testing, documentation, and automation.
Help build a cohesive, autonomous team that can make strategic decisions independently and execute efficiently.
Drive the development of an engaging and collaborative office culture that promotes teamwork, inclusion, and innovation.
Contribute to scaling the team by taking an active role in interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new members, ensuring the team has the skills needed to succeed.
Take ownership of team growth by actively participating in interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Allocate roughly 50% of the role to people management (the emphasis is on people management) and 50% to hands-on coding and technical problem-solving.
Act as a liaison between US and Poland teams leverage excellent communication and project management skills
Establish development best practices, promote continuous improvement, prioritize projects for timely delivery, and ensure technical excellence through code reviews and tool implementation.
Foster innovation by generating and supporting ideas for advanced technical solutions that enhance the company’s competitive edge.

What you have:

Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Extras you bring to the table:

Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
Experience with functional/acceptance testing

Why join Polly?

We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
Competitive salaries
Flexible vacation
Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in the innovation hub in Warsaw.

Let’s get to know each other.

Polly has revolutionized the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, actionable data and analytics, and advanced AI/ML to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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