Engineering Lead

Role

An Engineering Lead will establish and lead the Warsaw engineering hub for an AI-native platform serving aerospace, defense, and industrial supply-chain operations.

They will build and manage a full-stack engineering team, set technical direction, maintain delivery standards, and remain close enough to the code and architecture to make high-quality engineering decisions.

This is a full-time, on-site role requiring five days per week in Warsaw and occasional international travel.

Responsibilities

•Build, manage, and develop a Warsaw-based engineering team of approximately 10 engineers.

•Own hiring plans, technical interviews, onboarding, performance management, and team development.

•Lead delivery of full-stack SaaS products used internationally across operationally complex supply-chain workflows.

•Define and maintain engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, security, and deployment.

•Work hands-on with TypeScript, Svelte, PostgreSQL, APIs, and distributed SaaS systems when technical decisions or delivery risks require direct intervention.

•Partner with founders and product stakeholders to convert business requirements into sequenced technical plans and shipped outcomes.

•Establish delivery processes that provide clear ownership, predictable execution, and early visibility into technical risks.

•Review system designs and major pull requests, ensuring solutions are maintainable, secure, testable, and appropriate for production scale.

•Drive effective use of AI coding tools across the team, including defining practical standards for adoption, review, testing, and responsible use.

•Coordinate with international teams and stakeholders, including up to one week of international travel per quarter.

Required experience

•10+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.

•5+ years of engineering people-management experience.

•Experience directly leading an engineering team of approximately 10 people.

•Proven ownership of internationally deployed SaaS products in production.

•Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and modern full-stack web development.

•Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and production API development.

•Experience setting engineering standards across architecture, testing, code review, deployment, and operational reliability.

•Professional fluency in English.

•Willingness to work on-site in Warsaw five days per week.

•Willingness to relocate to Warsaw if not already based there.

Technical environment

•TypeScript.

•Svelte or an equivalent modern frontend framework.

•PostgreSQL or another production relational database.

•Full-stack SaaS architecture.

•Internationally deployed applications.

•AI coding tools integrated into engineering workflows.

Success measures

•A Warsaw engineering team is hired, onboarded, and operating with clear ownership.

•The team delivers production SaaS functionality against agreed priorities and timelines.

•Engineering standards are consistently applied across code review, testing, architecture, deployment, and incident response.

•Product reliability, maintainability, and delivery predictability improve as the Warsaw hub scales.

•AI coding tools improve engineering throughput without reducing code quality, security, or review standards.

•Technical decisions support international customers and operationally complex workflows.