Director of Engineering

Summary

Join Knowde, a global software company transforming the chemical industry, as a Regional Director of Engineering. You will manage growing engineering teams, scale platform capabilities, and collaborate with C-level executives to define and deliver on the product and engineering roadmap. This key role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership, including attracting, recruiting, and developing top talent. You will shape the company's technological strategy, contribute to technical designs, and serve as a trusted advisor to clients. The ideal candidate is a positive, inspiring leader with a strong engineering background and experience managing distributed teams in a B2B SaaS environment. Knowde offers flexible working hours and the opportunity to work on innovative projects.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably working on advanced B2B products - e-commerce, product catalogs, search, marketing automation, collaboration and marketplaces
• 2+ years of management experience
• Strong technical roots and a skill base that intersects well with Knowde’s tech stack & development tools: Ruby/Rails, Python, React, Kubernetes, AWS, Atlassian tools, etc
• Working understanding of data privacy and industry compliance
• Ability to take initiatives from requirements to deployment
• Ability to design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs

Responsibilities

• Manage a set of growing engineering teams
• Help scale our platform capabilities and business across the globe
• Collaborate closely with our C-level suite as we define our product and engineering roadmap
• Manage delivery against that roadmap through your use of good engineering process, leadership and leveraging your past experience
• Help shape the company’s technological strategy
• Cultivate the technical environment
• Lead, guide and develop our engineering teams
• Attract, recruit and maintain top talent
• Motivate and coach the team
• Manage performance and conduct
• Facilitate growth of the talent that needs nurturing
• Drive new product engineering and scaling existing solutions as part of a collaborative, cross-domain product/engineering team
• Lead engineering teams and allocate them to specific projects
• Advocate for your team’s position, even if it means making tough decisions
• Contribute to technical designs and improvements
• Meet clients and serve as a trusted advisor
• Draft potential solutions, on the spot
• Ship features quickly without sacrificing code quality
• Implement cutting-edge technologies and write state-of-the-art code

Benefits

• Location: Rzeszów, Łódź, Białystok, or remotely from Poland
• Periodic visits in the office might be necessary
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a strong team of engineers
• Real and visible influence on the company growth, direction and future