Associate Engineering Manager

About the company

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver — whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items — over $200 billion worth — to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes.

Your tasks

About the role As an Engineering Manager, you will have a significant impact on your team's operations. You will continuously enhance tools and processes for people management while collaborating with engineering managers to define new workflows and implement improvements. This is a hybrid role located in Zielona Gora. The salary range for this role is up to 18k PLN gross per month

• What will you be doing?
• Managing a multi-member team.
• Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans.
• Active involvement in technical tasks, including hands-on coding and software development.
• Ensuring code quality and functionality through the production phase.
• Upholding the quality of processes, projects, and systems agreed upon by the team.
• Defining service features and components under the team's responsibility.
• Continuously improving both personal and team performance by suggesting and helping implement new processes and engineering best practices.
• Effectively communicating progress, achievements, and areas for improvement to team members and management.
• Serving as a trusted technical authority in one or more areas, providing guidance and engineering advice to the team.
• Leading discussions on team architecture and design strategies.
• Mentoring less experienced developers.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define the team’s action plans and manage competing priorities.
• Monitoring team engagement and well-being indicators.
• Proactively identifying and resolving potential performance challenges within the team.
• Supporting the development and career growth of team members.
• Participating in recruitment processes.
• Advocating for business and technical decisions made by the company within the team.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• As a trusted technical authority, you will become the primary point of contact for all engineering-related matters.

Extensive experience in designing, building, and deploying solutions in AWS with an unwavering focus on quality.

• Comprehensive expertise in designing and delivering low-latency, high-throughput API systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
• As a programming polyglot, you excel in delivering software systems while leveraging Agile, Lean, and DevOps methodologies, effectively leading project execution.
• Writing automated tests (unit, integration, etc.), pairing, enhancing code quality, and continuous integration are embedded in your professional DNA.
• Proven experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, framework, or development platform.
• Experienced in developing CI/CD solutions and cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
• You believe that neglecting Continuous Delivery is a missed opportunity to learn and deliver value to clients.
• Passionate about full team ownership, encompassing the entire product lifecycle and its components, including code, infrastructure, and after-hours support.
• Embracing a new programming language or technology is an opportunity you eagerly pursue.
• Skilled at balancing the demands of delivering high-quality products while meeting challenging deadlines and committed to fulfilling your responsibilities.
• Your actions consistently demonstrate that collaboration is the best path to delivering outstanding products.

Must have: .NET, C#, AWS

Nice to have: TypeScript, Java