Role Description Become an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager at Bloomreach and lead our Application Platform team. In this role, you will lead a foundation team that provides frameworks and shared backend capabilities for product engineering across Engagement, including: - IAM - Audit log - Billing pipelines - File management - Core application-development building blocks You will partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and application engineering teams to ensure our platform is reliable, secure, scalable, and developer-friendly. Your work will have broad impact across the Bloomreach Engagement product, which runs on Kubernetes in GCP and supports customer-facing capabilities such as: - Authentication - Authorization - Account and project management - Usage dashboards - Platform APIs used by multiple teams This is a full-time role based in one of our Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, Prague) or remote from Central and Eastern Europe. What You’ll Do - Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development. - Set the team’s direction and execution rhythm, balancing roadmap delivery, platform investments, AI adoption, operational excellence, and technical debt reduction. - Drive the team’s operating cadence, including planning, backlog refinement, standups, retrospectives, and other team rituals that improve alignment, execution, and continuous improvement. - Own the delivery of shared application-platform capabilities that other Engagement teams build on. - Partner with product and engineering stakeholders across Engagement to identify leverage points for platform improvements. - Drive strong engineering execution through clear priorities, healthy team rituals, continuous improvement, and pragmatic technical decision-making. - Drive AI adoption within the team and in the platform capabilities APPT provides to others. - Help shape the technical vision for the evolution of the Engagement backend platform. - Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security to ensure platform capabilities are robust in production. - Support healthy cross-team collaboration by providing guidance, standards, and office-hour style support for application teams. - Contribute to incident response, operational follow-through, and long-term improvements in team-owned production services. Qualifications - 6+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management. - Proven experience leading backend or platform-oriented teams in a SaaS environment. - Strong understanding of application-platform or internal-platform work. - Hands-on technical background in modern backend systems and distributed architecture. - Experience working with cloud-native systems in production, ideally including Kubernetes and GCP-based environments. - Familiarity with shared engineering concerns such as authentication, authorization, auditability, developer tooling, CI/CD, and service integration patterns. - Track record of driving adoption of new engineering practices or technologies. - Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills across engineering, product, security, and adjacent platform teams. - Ability to switch comfortably between strategic thinking and day-to-day execution. - Strong ownership mindset, with a focus on building sustainable systems. Nice to Have - Experience leading teams that own shared frameworks, internal developer platforms, or foundational backend services. - Experience with Python or Go ecosystems in large-scale production environments. - Familiarity with IAM systems, billing/usage pipelines, or audit logging. - Experience in multi-team engineering organizations. - Experience contributing to engineering culture, operating models, and cross-team architecture governance. Success in This Role - First 30 days: Build a strong understanding of the team, its ownership boundaries, current roadmap, technical landscape, and key stakeholder relationships. - First 90 days: Establish trust with the team and partners, improve clarity around priorities and delivery. - First 180 days: Deliver measurable improvements in team effectiveness, platform reliability, and developer experience. Benefits - A great deal of freedom and trust. - Defined values and key behaviors embedded in processes. - Flexible working hours. - Virtual-first work environment with several Bloomreach Hubs. - Company events to foster global spirit. - 5 paid days off to volunteer. - People Development Program with workshops and competency maps. - $1,500 professional education budget annually. - Employee Assistance Program with counselors. - Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app. - ‘DisConnect’ days for additional time off each quarter. - Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers. - Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options based on role, seniority, and location. - Participation in the company's success through performance bonus. - Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000. - Celebration of work anniversaries - Bloomversaries!

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