Location: Warsaw, Poland Departments: Development
About Us:
At Sauce Labs, we empower the world's top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us!
The Role:
Sauce Labs is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead, empower, and support engineering teams working on our Identity and Access Management platform, Billing, and Sauce Connect. If you consider yourself a thoughtful, kind, and supportive person, this might be a good fit for you. You must be eager to learn, enjoy exploring, and work closely with a team.
You'll be managing cross-functional engineering teams (up to 10 engineers) with a focus on building and enhancing these critical platform components. You'll collaborate closely with the product team to align on priorities and expectations, while maintaining transparent communication with all stakeholders.
Engineering management at Sauce is all about empowering people. You'll be responsible for helping engineers grow their careers, guiding them into the right challenges, and supporting their professional development. You'll also help teams improve their delivery processes and coordinate larger engineering projects. Experience in people management, improving agile SDLC processes, and project management is essential.
As an Engineering Manager, you don't need to be an expert in programming, networking, and identity and access management systems, but you should have a solid conceptual understanding of each area. This will allow you to actively participate in technical discussions, challenge decisions, and roll up your sleeves to help unblock your teams, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
Responsibilities:
People Leadership & Development: * Build strong relationships with individual engineers, providing regular feedback, mentorship, and support for their career growth. * Proactively identify and remove obstacles, ensuring your team has the resources and clarity needed to succeed. * Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture that encourages collaboration and continuous learning.
Process Improvement & Ownership: * Drive the success of your teams by continuously improving the efficiency and predictability of the development process. * Champion and implement agile and lean principles within your teams to optimize workflows and delivery. * Actively identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, ensuring smooth collaboration across engineering.
Technical Leadership & Hands-On Contribution: * Actively participate in technical design reviews, architectural discussions, and code reviews, providing constructive feedback and guiding sound engineering decisions. * Dive into technical challenges alongside your team, helping to troubleshoot complex issues, prototype solutions, or even contribute code when necessary to unblock critical paths or demonstrate best practices. * Provide strong conceptual and practical guidance to your teams in areas like programming, networking, and identity and access management. * Contribute to the strategic direction and architectural discussions related to your team's domains, ensuring alignment with overall platform goals.
Project Planning & Execution: * Plan, oversee, and drive the execution of complex engineering projects within the scope of your teams (Identity & Access Management, Billing, Sauce Connect). * Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate product roadmaps into actionable engineering plans and ensure alignment on priorities. * Maintain transparent communication on project status, risks, and timelines with all relevant stakeholders.
Required Skills:
- 1 - 2 years of Leadership experience in highly technical teams.
- 5 - 8 years of hands-on technical expertise in building robust APIs using modern programming languages, with a strong focus on observability and security principles. Experience with billing systems and Identity and Access Management platforms is a significant plus.
- Practical experience in mentoring and coaching individual contributors to support their professional development.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrable project and time management skills, with a track record of planning and executing engineering initiatives.
- Practical experience in introducing and improving agile principles in a software development environment.
- Solid practical understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and modern development practices.
- Strong conceptual understanding of programming principles, networking fundamentals, and authentication mechanisms, leveraging this knowledge to actively participate in technical discussions and problem-solving related to building secure, observable, and efficiently deployed software solutions.
This Saucer role is based in our Warsaw, Poland office. We are a hybrid workplace that recognizes the importance of flexibility while valuing in-person collaboration and relationship building. As a result, Saucers located near an office location must be able and willing to come into the office.
