Manager, Software Engineering at BlackLine · Krakow

Overview

As the founding Engineering Manager for our new Engineering Hub in Krakow, you have one of the most consequential roles in this new chapter of BlackLine's growth. You will be the architect of the team itself — hiring and developing a world-class group of engineers (Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, and a Staff Engineer), and shaping the culture, practices, and career trajectories of everyone in the hub.

You will partner closely with our Staff Engineer and cross-functional product leadership to ensure the team operates with clarity, urgency, and a high engineering bar. You will champion a culture of AI-accelerated development, where tools like Claude and Cursor are woven into the everyday fabric of how we build. This is not just a management role, it is a founding leadership role with an enduring impact on our mission to deliver autonomous finance.

Responsibilities

• Build and Scale the Krakow Engineering Hub: Lead the hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of a high-performing team of Software Engineers, Senior Engineers, and Staff Engineers. Be an ambassador for BlackLine's engineering culture from day one.
• Lead, Coach, and Grow Your Team: Own the career development, performance, and wellbeing of your direct reports. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback, and create growth paths that retain and attract top engineering talent.
• Drive Delivery and Execution: Partner with Product Management to align on priorities, manage engineering capacity, and ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality software on time. Remove blockers, manage risk, and keep commitments.
• Champion AI-Accelerated Development: Cultivate a team mindset and workflow that embraces modern agentic development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude) as force multipliers for velocity and quality — and hold the bar high for what great engineering looks like in this era.
• Shape Engineering Culture and Standards: In partnership with the Staff Engineer, establish and uphold best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, and security across the team. Set the tone for a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Serve as the primary engineering leadership voice in conversations with Product, Design, and senior stakeholders. Translate business goals into actionable engineering plans and communicate engineering realities clearly to non-technical partners.
• Contribute to Strategic Roadmap Planning: Participate in quarterly and annual planning cycles, providing technical and capacity input that shapes the product roadmap and long-term architecture decisions.
• Sustain Enterprise-Grade Quality: Ensure the team's output meets the reliability, performance, and security standards required by a global SaaS platform serving finance and accounting professionals worldwide.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams in a SaaS product environment, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers at multiple seniority levels.
• Strong technical foundation with hands-on engineering experience building production-grade, scalable, and secure applications — ideally in C# or a comparable enterprise stack — sufficient to earn trust with your engineers and make sound architectural trade-offs.
• Experience managing in an AI-augmented engineering environment, or a genuine enthusiasm and aptitude for adopting AI-driven development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude) to raise team velocity and quality.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional delivery, aligning engineering, product, and design stakeholders around shared goals and managing execution with clarity and accountability.
• Strong people management skills, including structured performance management, career development frameworks, and the ability to have direct, compassionate conversations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable representing the team to senior leadership and working effectively across time zones and cultures.
• A high engineering bar: you understand what great looks like in code quality, CI/CD, testing, and observability, and you hold the team to that standard.

Salary Range

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Employee Referral Bonus Amount

$1,500