Engineering Manager

Job Description

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about backend, full-stack, and DevOps capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind Podme’s product experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our backend, full-stack, and DevOps engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind reliable and scalable product development.

This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience.

ABOUT PODME:

Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021.

Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives.

We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.

WHY JOIN PODME:

At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

• Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base.
• Lead the backend, full-stack, and DevOps specialty behind key product capabilities, while strengthening engineering standards and ways of working across teams and locations.
• Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core user and business flows.
• Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia
• Travel to Stockholm approximately 2-3 times per year
• Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme
• Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks

Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience.

Your next great challenge starts here.

Apply now and let’s build something great together.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of backend, full-stack, and DevOps engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations.
• Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support.
• Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks.
• Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with Product Managers, System Architect, and other functions to enable effective delivery and quality outcomes.
• Surface technical debt, reliability risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions.
• Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
• Improve deployment confidence, production ownership, and incident learning while reducing reliance on unclear ownership or key individuals.

ABOUT YOU

You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support backend, platform, full-stack, and DevOps trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work.

• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers.
• Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus.
• Understanding of modern software delivery practices.
• Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy.
• Ability to explain engineering trade-offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Clear communication and relationship-building skills.
• Cost-conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions.
• Professional-level Polish and English communication skills.

We know strong engineering leaders can come from different paths. If this role and mission resonate with you, we’d be glad to hear from you.

Nice to have:

• Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants.
• Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, or consumer products.
• Experience with platform reliability, infrastructure-as-code, observability, incident learning, or developer experience.
• Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements.

We work in a hybrid way and would like to catch up with you at our vibrant and colourful office in Kraków 2 days per week. This allows for collaboration and meaningful connections with the team. If you’re not the working-from-home kind of person, you are of course welcome in our office every day!