Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager, Application Platform

Become an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager at Bloomreach and lead our Application Platform team. In this role, you will lead a foundation team that provides frameworks and shared backend capabilities for product engineering across Engagement, including IAM, audit log, billing pipelines, file management, and core application-development building blocks.

You will partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and application engineering teams to ensure our platform is reliable, secure, scalable, and developer-friendly. Your work will have broad impact across the Bloomreach Engagement product, which runs on Kubernetes in GCP and supports customer-facing capabilities such as authentication, authorization, account and project management, usage dashboards, and platform APIs used by multiple teams.

This is a full-time role based in one of our Central European offices (Bratislava, Brno, Prague) or remote from Central and Eastern Europe.

What Youll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Set the teams direction and execution rhythm, balancing roadmap delivery, platform investments, AI adoption, operational excellence, and technical debt reduction.
• Drive the teams operating cadence, including planning, backlog refinement, standups, retrospectives, and other team rituals that improve alignment, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Own the delivery of shared application-platform capabilities that other Engagement teams build on, including application frameworks, authentication and authorization foundations, audit logging, billing-related pipelines, and internal developer tooling.
• Partner with product and engineering stakeholders across Engagement to identify leverage points where platform improvements can increase delivery speed, consistency, reliability, and developer effectiveness for multiple teams.
• Drive strong engineering execution through clear priorities, healthy team rituals, continuous improvement, and pragmatic technical decision-making.
• Drive AI adoption within the team and in the platform capabilities APPT provides to others, ensuring new solutions improve team effectiveness and developer productivity while maintaining strong security, reliability, and operational stability.
• Help shape the technical vision for the evolution of the Engagement backend platform, especially around shared services, internal APIs, IAM, usage tracking, developer experience, and practical use of AI across engineering.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security to ensure platform capabilities are robust in production and aligned with operational, compliance, and access-control requirements.
• Support healthy cross-team collaboration by providing guidance, standards, and office-hour style support for application teams building on top of platform foundations.
• Contribute to incident response, operational follow-through, and long-term improvements in team-owned production services, including team on-call responsibilities.

What Were Looking For

• 6+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
• Proven experience leading backend or platform-oriented teams in a SaaS environment.
• Strong understanding of application-platform or internal-platform work, where success is measured by the effectiveness, safety, and speed it enables for other engineering teams.
• Hands-on technical background in modern backend systems and distributed architecture, with the ability to engage credibly in design discussions and guide technical trade-offs.
• Experience working with cloud-native systems in production, ideally including Kubernetes and GCP-based environments.
• Familiarity with shared engineering concerns such as authentication, authorization, auditability, developer tooling, CI/CD, and service integration patterns.
• Track record of driving adoption of new engineering practices or technologies, including AI-enabled ways of working, with clear attention to security, reliability, and stability.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills across engineering, product, security, and adjacent platform teams.
• Ability to switch comfortably between strategic thinking and day-to-day execution.
• Strong ownership mindset, with a focus on building sustainable systems, improving team effectiveness, and maintaining healthy team operating models.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading teams that own shared frameworks, internal developer platforms, or foundational backend services.
• Experience with Python or Go ecosystems in large-scale production environments.
• Familiarity with IAM systems, billing/usage pipelines, or audit logging.
• Experience in multi-team engineering organizations where platform teams support a broad internal customer base.
• Experience contributing to engineering culture, operating models, and cross-team architecture governance.

Success in This Role

• First 30 days: Build a strong understanding of the team, its ownership boundaries, current roadmap, technical landscape, and key stakeholder relationships across Engagement.
• First 90 days: Establish trust with the team and partners, improve clarity around priorities and delivery, and identify the highest-impact opportunities to strengthen APPTs role as a force multiplier for Engagement engineering.
• First 180 days: Deliver measurable improvements in team effectiveness, platform reliability, and developer experience, while helping shape a clear longer-term vision for the Application Platform team.

Why Bloomreach

• Work on foundational technology that enables multiple product teams and directly shapes the engineering experience across Engagement.
• Lead in a highly collaborative environment with meaningful technical depth and broad organizational impact.
• Help build the systems behind a product used by more than 1,400 global brands.

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