Development Manager - Product Teams

As Development Manager, you will lead one or two fully remote, cross-functional software development teams responsible for building and evolving OrbusInfinity, our flagship enterprise SaaS product. You will provide clear people leadership and delivery accountability, helping the teams focus on the work that matters most for our customers and the product.

This is a hands-off leadership role: Technical Leads within the teams will own day-to-day technical decisions and help maintain technical standards and best practices. Your focus will be on coaching, guiding and enabling the teams to succeed.

You will help the teams turn product goals into well-designed, maintainable software and deliver value to customers. You will work closely with Product and Engineering colleagues to create an environment of shared ownership, effective collaboration and continuous improvement.

Your focus will be on ensuring that the teams operate within clear, effective delivery processes. You will ensure responsibilities are understood, agreed workflows are followed and engineering best practices are applied consistently, working with Technical Leads, Product Managers and other relevant roles to address process gaps and improve ways of working. Day-to-day backlog and delivery management will remain with the appropriate roles.

You will be a strategic, people-first leader who earns the respect of skilled engineers not by doing their job, but by enabling them to do it brilliantly. This role is suited to an experienced Development Manager with several years of experience leading software development teams. You will bring previous hands-on experience as a software engineer or in another technical engineering role, together with enough technical understanding to ask the right questions, support sound decisions and lead the teams effectively. You will not be expected to be the hands-on technical owner.

You will lead between 6 and 12 direct reports and work closely with Product, Engineering and senior technical leadership. The role is fully remote, based in Poland, with quarterly (max) in-person events bringing together teams from across all regions. You will be employed on a permanent contract (umowa o pracę) with our Polish entity.

Our engineering environment

OrbusInfinity runs natively in Microsoft Azure. Our technology landscape includes modern C#/.NET, React, TypeScript, Cosmos DB, SQL, containers and Kubernetes, with a micro-frontend and microservice architecture deployed continuously to highly available, multi-region infrastructure.

We use Scrum for day-to-day development. Our engineering practices include automated CI/CD, shift-left testing and a focus on maintainable, high-quality code. Dedicated teams support build and release processes through Azure DevOps, Git and Azure.

Why this role matters

Your leadership will help one or two product development teams focus on the work that matters most, while enabling the wider engineering organisation to deliver and evolve OrbusInfinity with greater confidence.

What You Will Do

Lead and develop the teams

· Lead, coach and develop one or two software development teams, supporting performance, engagement and career development.

· Set clear expectations and support the growth of experienced technical professionals.

· Hold regular one-to-ones and ensure direct reports have meaningful development plans.

· Lead performance reviews, provide regular feedback and support career development for direct reports.

· Lead hiring, onboarding and team capability development as required.

· Create an environment in which technical professionals can work with appropriate autonomy and accountability.

Enable effective planning and delivery

· Support clear prioritisation and roadmap planning by ensuring the relevant roles are aligned on outcomes, dependencies and responsibilities.

· Help translate strategic goals into clear priorities, outcomes and delivery expectations.

· Ensure the appropriate roles maintain visibility of commitments, progress, risks and dependencies.

· Help identify organisational blockers and escalate issues when decisions or support are needed.

· Ensure cross-team dependencies and delivery risks have clear owners and are addressed early.

· Work closely with Product Managers, Development Managers and senior Engineering leaders to coordinate priorities.

· Ensure agreed delivery processes are understood and followed throughout the software development lifecycle, from planning and design through delivery and continuous improvement.

· Work with Product Managers to understand roadmap goals, identify the technical runway needed to support them and make dependencies visible.

Contribute to strategy and continuous improvement

· Contribute to Product and Technology strategy, department-level initiatives and improvements to engineering standards.

· Use team health, delivery and quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities and track progress.

· Support changes to team shape, responsibilities and ways of working as the organisation evolves.

Support technical excellence and reliability

· Provide thoughtful challenge on technical proposals, trade-offs and delivery approaches.

· Support the connection between technical decisions, product goals and wider engineering needs.

· Support consistent engineering standards, quality and technical decision-making.

· Encourage attention to maintainability, reliability and continuous improvement.

Enable effective engineering delivery

· Help the teams build, test, release and operate software effectively, working with relevant technical specialists where needed.

· Support practical ways of working, tooling and collaboration that help engineers deliver with confidence.

· Promote engineering quality, reliability and a culture of continuous improvement.

· Ensure delivery and operational risks are visible, have clear owners and are followed through to completion.

· Foster shared ownership and continuous delivery excellence across the Engineering department.

Work across Engineering

· Represent the teams in relevant product and engineering forums.

· Support knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.

· Contribute to improvements in engineering standards, processes and ways of working.

· Build trusted relationships with Product, Engineering and senior technical stakeholders.

· Connect people across teams and departments to find the best path to success.

· Work closely with Technical Leads, Product Managers, other Development Managers and relevant technical specialists to resolve blockers, manage dependencies and improve ways of working.

What You Will Bring

Essential

· Several years’ experience as a Development Manager or equivalent, leading software development teams.

· Experience leading, coaching and developing software engineers.

· Experience working with cross-functional, agile teams and guiding delivery through the full software development lifecycle.

· Previous hands-on experience as a software engineer or in another technical engineering role.

· Experience working with our technology stack or a closely related one, including modern C#/.NET, React, TypeScript and cloud-native technologies.

· Good understanding of software development practices, technical delivery and engineering quality.

· Experience owning or managing priorities, roadmaps, dependencies and delivery risks.

· The ability to work effectively with technical specialists and support teams in making sound engineering decisions.

· Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Experience working with distributed or international teams.

· Fluency in English, as the working language of the team and wider organisation.

Nice to Have

· Familiarity with cloud, CI/CD or modern software delivery practices.

· Experience working in a SaaS product company.

· Experience partnering with Product Managers on roadmap planning and technical runway.

· Experience leading or coordinating work across multiple software development teams.

· Experience with multi-regional or high-availability infrastructure.

· Experience with production incident management and operational improvement.

· Experience hiring and building software development teams.

· Experience contributing to technical strategy, architecture, reliability or production operations.

· Experience working with agile delivery methods such as Scrum or Kanban.

A note on experience

We are interested in the capabilities that will help you succeed, not a perfect match with every tool or background listed above. Strong people leadership, delivery judgement and a solid technical foundation matter most. Specific product, cloud and engineering practices can be learned where the underlying judgement and curiosity are present.