Head of Software Engineering

Whyhirewrong — Poland · Posted ~3 hours ago

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Skills

Engineering leadership Software engineering management Engineering strategy Technical standards Modernization Distributed team management Manager-of-managers experience

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A senior technology leadership position responsible for overseeing a large engineering organization, defining engineering direction, improving technical standards, and leading teams through business growth and transformation.

Highlights

Executive engineering leadership role with responsibility for shaping technology strategy, leading a large engineering organization, and driving modernization initiatives.

Description

About A venture-backed enterprise B2B SaaS company in the property / real estate technology space. Fast-growing, acquisition-driven business with a multi-entity structure across Europe. Well-funded, profitable, and scaling. The Role We're looking for a Head of Software Engineering to own the entire platform engineering function. You'll lead a distributed org of 50+ engineers across several European locations, reporting directly to the CTPO. This isn't a hands-on IC role or a single-team tech lead position. It's a whole-org ownership role for someone who has personally led large, distributed engineering organizations as a manager-of-managers and driven engineering strategy, standards, and modernization at scale. What You'll Do Lead and grow the software engineering organization (~50+ engineers, scaling) across multiple European sites Set engineering strategy, technical standards, and modernization roadmap for the entire platform Drive post-acquisition integration: technical due diligence, onboarding, and integration of acquired engineering teams Lead platform harmonization and modernization of legacy applications across a multi-brand group Partner with product, commercial, and enterprise stakeholders to deliver on business objectives Build a high-trust, high-velocity engineering culture across geographies What We're Looking For Required Current or recent Head / Director of Software Engineering, VP Engineering, or equivalent at an enterprise B2B SaaS company Proven leadership of distributed engineering teams across geographies - manager-of-managers scope, ~40-120+ engineers Broad modern-stack understanding across backend, frontend, and mobile Strong enterprise-stakeholder communication skills Fluent English (C1+) Based in or near Krakow, Poland, or clearly relocatable Strongly Valued Experience with M&A integration: technical due diligence and onboarding of acquired engineering teams Platform harmonization / modernization of legacy applications Multi-brand or post-acquisition platform consolidation PropTech, CAFM, property, industrial, or ERP domain knowledge Experience owning the whole engineering org at a mid-market/scale-up SaaS company Why Join High-impact role at a well-funded, profitable, scaling SaaS business with a clear growth trajectory Own engineering for the entire platform - not a slice of a 10k-person mega-corp Work on real technical challenges: multi-entity platform consolidation, M&A integration, modernization at scale Enterprise-grade clients with complex, meaningful use cases Hybrid setup in Krakow with a strong, growing team across Europe