ABOUT THE TEAM :
We are looking for a driven Engineering Manager to join our business-critical Schibsted Payment team in the User Foundations organization. User Foundations’ vision is to uphold a Nordic digital ecosystem for users and brands built on trust, transparency, and choice.
Schibsted Payment is a central team that handles payment processing for around 70 Scandinavian companies, including marketplaces, news media brands, and e-commerce. The product portfolio – Payment Suite – includes 2 mission-critical products:
- Payment Gateway – a mature backend payment platform that works 24/7/365 and processes ~15 million payments annually,
- Checkout Experience – a new frontend product, payment UI that makes online shopping frictionless for users.
The Team owns the complete software development lifecycle of Payment Suite products, from design to deployment.
The Team’s tech stack includes but is not limited to:
- Backend services: Java, Kotlin
- User-facing components: TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js
- Tests: Postman, Playwright
- Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, ElasticSearch, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, and many more), Docker, Kubernetes on EKS, IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation
- Code management, CI/CD: GitHub, Spinnaker, Travis (self-hosted enterprise instances)
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will manage a talented, distributed team of software engineers with a well-established remote work culture, have the overall responsibility of the technical vision and roadmap, the quality of the product, and the deliveries of the Engineering team. You will have a significant influence on the strategy by helping define product features, drive the system architecture and spearhead the best practices that enable highly reliable products.
ABOUT YOU:
- You are a true people leader. You understand how to build high-performing teams and stimulate dialogue between Engineering and Product.
- You have a solid technology background and thrive to challenge existing technical solutions , welcome different perspectives – and have the ability to create a clear technical direction with vision for a future state.
- You have a track record of delivering successful products as a Manager , have a strong sense of ownership and take responsibility for the success of a team or teams.
- You are able to keep a good balance of technical depth and interpersonal skills, and hold the ability to keep/have a broader view on how to strategically develop the solution to meet new business needs.
- You have experience in partnering with product teams. You have strong leadership and facilitation skills , as well as the ability to balance engineering and product-related concerns.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are tech-savvy, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to invent novel solutions to challenging problems, we want to work with you!
🔷 ABOUT THE TEAM
You will work closely with other members of the IT department and company stakeholders to ensure that our infrastructure meets the needs of Schibsted’s business and supports our growth strategy.
Schibsted Enterprise Technology – or “E-Tech” as we’re called – is the internal IT company within Schibsted. We deliver IT services, tools, and infrastructure to companies and employees in all parts of the group.
🔷 ABOUT THE ROLE
We seek an experienced Head of Infrastructure to lead its IT department’s infrastructure team.
Your primary responsibilities will be:
- Leading the infrastructure team in designing, implementing, and maintaining our company’s technology infrastructure
- Developing and maintaining technology standards and best practices to ensure that our infrastructure is secure, reliable, and scalable
- Managing the infrastructure budget, including forecasting and reporting on expenditures
- Collaborating with other members of the IT department and company stakeholders to understand business needs and ensure that our infrastructure is aligned with Schibsted’s business needs
- Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations related to IT infrastructure and security
- Developing and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity
- You will be responsible for managing a team of six people who will report directly to you
🔷 ABOUT YOU
We expect you to have:
- +5 years of experience in IT infrastructure management, including experience leading a team
- Strong knowledge of networking, server, storage, and security technologies and best practices
- Experience with cloud services and hybrid infrastructure : The ideal candidate should have a strong background in managing and implementing cloud-based solutions, as well as experience with on-premises and hybrid infrastructure environments. This expertise will be crucial in ensuring that Schibsted’s IT infrastructure remains agile, scalable, and able to support our evolving business needs
- Proven experience in developing and implementing IT infrastructure and security strategies that align with business objectives
- Excellent communication, leadership , and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Ability to work collaboratively with other members of the IT department and company stakeholders
At Schibsted, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.
You may be based in Krakow or Gdańsk. Some travel will be required.
This position reports to Schibsted’s Chief Information Officer.
Are you passionate about developing products and thrive on optimising funnels and user flows? Do you want to help us take the next steps towards strengthening our web presence, and becoming a household brand? Then we have the right job for you!
🔷 WHO WE ARE
PodMe was founded in 2017 with a vision to enrich everyday life by taking podcast entertainment to its full potential. We want to help creators fulfil their dreams and create podcasts that spur emotions, educate and mesmerise people who love great stories.Today we operate in Sweden, Finland and Norway, and have more than 200 000 subscribers to our service. Podme has 60+ employees.
Backed by Schibsted News Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen and scale up our Product Development.
🔷 WHAT WE OFFER
At Podme you will find a diverse and talented team, with an inspiring and fun working environment. As a member of the product team you will have great opportunities to impact the business and future of our company. We value the user experience and the listeners’ needs come first.
We offer a hybrid working model, with 2-3 days at office.
🔷 ABOUT THIS POSITION
As a product manager for our web team you will be responsible for the backlog and vision of our web presence. Your primary objective is to ensure that podme.com becomes an authority on the web when interacting or searching for podcasts. Focus is on discovering Podme, and resulting in potential customers becoming account holders. You will report to our CPO.
- The position will be with Schibsted Tech Polska office in Krakow
- You will work hybrid with 2-3 days at office (frequency can be discussed)
- Fluency in Polish and English is required
- Ability to travel to Stockholm occasionally is required
🔷 TOP 5 THINGS YOU WILL DO:
- Manage, maintain and build a roadmap for podme.com
- Drive user acquisition growth and sign ups to our service
- Establish a SEO strategy and execute on said strategy, ensuring a top performing website
- Enable marketing teams with the tools needed to drive campaigns into engaged customers
- Ensure the discoverability and usability of our web, from mobile to desktop
🔷 WHO YOU ARE
- You have proven experience in working with web products
- You know how to utilise experimentation to achieve growth and prove hypotheses
- You have worked as an active ambassador for SEO initiatives and understand the importance of constant improvements
- You are thorough and enjoy using data for insights, ideation and improving your area
- You are good at presenting and have an eye for details
- You think Lean and act Agile
🔷 BONUS SKILLS
- You have worked with streaming services
- Technical experience/knowledge relevant to our tech stack
- You have experience with facilitating ideation workshops and getting people on-board
Welcome to PodMe! Podme’s vision is to enrich people’s everyday lives by taking podcast entertainment to its full potential. We want to help creators make dreams come true and create high-quality podcasts that excite, educate and captivate anyone who loves a good story. Since its inception, Podme has made it possible for many podcast creators to devote more, or all, of their time to creating podcasts and thus enrich the podcast as a form of entertainment.
Our company is growing and we are taking the next steps towards becoming a household brand. With some of the best podcasts in the industry, we now need to double down on our data journey.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer in our team in Krakow!
🔹 Our tech stack in the team
- C#/.net7,
- Azure,
- Kubernetes,
- RabbitMQ,
- SQL,
- BigQuery,
- Microservices.
🔹 As part of your daily work, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain server-side components of our software applications
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code using best practices
- Work closely with the frontend development team to integrate server-side components with the frontend
- Collaborate with product owners and other stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements
- Ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our applications
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the backend systems
- Continuously improve the performance and efficiency of our systems
- Mentor and coach junior developers, helping them grow their skills and advance in their careers
- Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies, industry trends and best practices to continually improve our products and processes
- Respond to incidents if on-call
🔹 Who are we looking for?
- Strong experience in C# and microservices
- Experience with scalable cloud-based systems
- Drive and ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
- A self-starter with excellent spoken/written communication and the ability to work effectively in a team that is forming
- Sense of ownership: business-oriented, ownership mindset (taking ownership all the way from planning to coding and then running it in production)
Please include in your CV link to your Github account where we can see your C# project. Let us see what you are proud of!
🔹 It’s an advantage if you have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Azure, RabbitMQ, building/maintaining SaaS products
- Startup experience
🔹 Our interview process
- Recruiter screening (30 min): an initial call with the tech recruiter. We’ll tell you a bit about us, answer any questions you may have, and learn about your background and what you’re looking to do.
- Technical interview (90 min): system design interview and potentially some computer science fundamentals discussions together with a code review exercise with 2 of our engineers.
- Values interview (45 min): meeting the engineering manager and product manager focusing on your previous experiences as a teammate in various situations.
- Offer extended! If you are interested in talking to more potential coworkers or have additional questions, we will also arrange any additional chats for you.
