Senior Engineering Manager – Data & Search Platform

We're a recruitment agency partnering with a global technology company building a leading AI-powered work platform used by teams worldwide. On their behalf we're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the group that owns the data retrieval and search platform.

The role is based in Warsaw — a growing engineering hub working on large-scale product and infrastructure challenges. Hybrid model: 3 days a week from the office, 2 days from home.

You'll work in a modern, AI-assisted engineering environment: AI-powered IDEs, customisable agent rules, prompt engineering tooling and AI-infused CI/CD pipelines.

The group's mission is critical: guarantee that all data stored in the platform is available for consumption in a single place. With billions of changes a month, data must be processed seamlessly and made searchable by end users, products and AI agents. The group advances data retrieval for all data types with strict freshness, latency and quality guarantees across:

• Write path — hyper-scale throughput and data integrity
• Event delivery — data delivery at ultra-low latency
• Search — query result quality, retrieval latency and freshness
• Activity log — real-time access to tens of billions of data changes

As Senior Engineering Manager you will:

• Own the mission and outcomes of the group
• Work with critical stakeholders across the organisation to keep rapidly evolving products moving with the highest sense of urgency
• Deeply understand and continuously improve data retrieval capabilities for real-world use cases and consumption models
• Work with the Group Tech Lead to define technical strategy and translate it into actionable scopes of work for each team
• Manage and develop Team Leaders, supporting their growth and ensuring cross-team alignment
• Understand the platform's architecture, usage patterns and product context deeply, and identify the next set of problems worth solving

• Total target monthly compensation: 73,000–80,000 PLN — base salary + bonus target + Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Bonus and RSU grants are discretionary and depend on individual and company performance.
• Employment contract (B2B is not an option)
• Hybrid work: 3 days a week from the Warsaw office, 2 days from home
• Free breakfast and lunch in the office from Monday to Wednesday
• Comprehensive private medical care, life insurance and a Multisport card
• Mental health support, including access to a mindfulness app
• Discounts on partner products and services
• Regular team get-togethers and events, plus gifts for birthdays and work anniversaries
• A dedicated learning & development team: workshops, new skills and AI tooling
• An equity incentive programme (for eligible roles)

Recruitment process

20–30 min intro call with the Talent Acquisition Partner → technical stages: system design and end-to-end interviews (1 h each) → final stages on-site in Warsaw: Management Interview and HR Interview (approx. 1 h each) → offer

• Strong distributed systems understanding, with a deep background in application and infrastructure optimisation
• Familiarity with large-scale, production-grade data processing challenges
• Senior engineering management experience — you've managed Team Leaders and Senior Technical Leaders and know how to develop people who run complex technical domains
• A problem-solver who understands reality: the system, organisational constraints, and engineering-creative approaches that actually ship
• Experience owning end-to-end complex architecture delivery — defining what needs to be built and why, not just running organisational ceremonies