Software Engineering Manager (Backend Chapter Lead)

Skywise is a leading flight operations specialist, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus. The company provides comprehensive ground and onboard solutions designed to increase productivity for aircraft operators worldwide, combining deep industry know-how with an agile development culture to drive innovation in operational efficiency and sustainable aviation.

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in backend development using C# / .NET with understanding of distributed systems, software performance, databases, concurrency, and data structures.
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, REST APIs, ASP.NET Web API, and AWS cloud-native principles.
• Ability to understand and review scalable systems design handling complex business logic.
• 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including performance management, hiring, and handling difficult conversations.
• Exceptional communication skills to translate complex technical concepts into business value and bridge technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have:

• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., AWS, GitLab), Infrastructure as Code, Docker.
• Experience with Matrix/SAFe organizations, ability to influence without authority, and navigate complex matrix structures.
• Aviation domain knowledge, specifically Operations Control (OCC), Flight Planning, or Crew Management, with experience building mission-critical software requiring high availability and safety.

• Define and maintain the backend technical vision, ensuring alignment with the broader architectural roadmap.
• Lead the "Community of Practice" for backend engineering, enforcing coding and testing standards, security best practices, code review guidelines, and testing protocols.
• Actively participate in architectural reviews, balancing feature delivery with long-term technical health, advocating for reduction of technical debt and modernization of legacy systems.
• Champion a "You Build It, You Run It" culture, driving initiatives to improve high availability, observability (logging, tracing, metrics), and reliability of backend services.
• Drive performance reviews and career development conversations; mentor engineers from Junior to Senior levels.
• Collaborate with ART Trio (PM/SA/RTE) to ensure appropriate resource allocation based on skills, business needs, and growth goals.
• Foster an inclusive environment promoting psychological safety where engineers feel safe to take risks, voice dissent, and innovate.

This job offer is for a position based at the Skywise office in Gdańsk, Poland.

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