The Role
Lead and mentor a software engineering team while driving prioritization, predictable delivery, technical quality, cloud deployment, CI/CD, security, observability, and hands-on architecture and coding. Champion AI-first engineering and agentic workflows, collaborate with product and design teams, improve engineering productivity, and support hiring and organizational growth across distributed teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
ActiveCampaign's engineering team is growing rapidly and we are looking for experienced Engineering Manager to join our Kraków Hub. Our ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a high-growth environment with rapidly evolving needs, and is ready to lead teams through a significant AI-first transformation. We're looking for driven and curious engineering leaders who combine strong people management with technical depth, and who are open to embracing new technologies and ways of working. Our Kraków Hub houses multiple engineering teams — Forms, Integrations, Ecommerce, Agency, CRM, Mobile, CampaignsUI, and Content — working across different product pillars with a shared focus on building agentic workflows into all core functionalities across the ActiveCampaign platform. Our engineering managers are people with varying technical backgrounds and interests who are heavily involved in the technical details of their team. As managers, our main focus is keeping our teams efficient, well-prioritized, and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, collaborative, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.
What your day could consist of:
- Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
- Drive strict prioritization and delivery management — ensuring your team is focused on high-impact work and delivering predictably
- Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, inclusivity, innovation, learning, respect and transparency while holding a high bar for craftsmanship
- Share knowledge with team members via mentoring, code reviews, design doc reviews, technical talks, and timely feedback
- Maintain rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Contribute to and execute on the organization's vision and standards around security, quality, observability, and clean code
- Support legacy and modern services and applications in the public cloud and deploy them through CI/CD practices
- Demonstrate problem solving and technical innovation by staying hands-on — contributing to architecture decisions, reviewing code, and writing code when needed
- Champion AI-first engineering practices — driving adoption of AI tooling and agentic development workflows within your team
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, other Engineering Managers, and cross-functional teams to ensure we're building great products
- Partner with other engineering teams to identify and evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity
- Work closely with the ActiveCampaign People Team to hire high-caliber candidates from diverse backgrounds
- Maintain flexible working hours with at least a few hours of daily overlap with Chicago timezone (US Central), including availability for afternoon meetings to facilitate cross-site collaboration
What we're looking for:
- Required:
- 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Strong software development background with experience building and deploying scalable applications in the cloud using CI/CD practices
- Production experience in PHP; Python or Java is a plus
- Solid database experience with SQL, NoSQL, and event streaming technologies
- Proven ability to drive prioritization, delivery cadence, and execution rigor across a team
- Quality-first mindset with experience solving challenging technical problems at scale
- Strong communication skills and customer focus
- Fluent in English (B2 minimum)
- Willingness to work flexible hours with regular afternoon availability to overlap with US Central timezone
- Nice to have:
- Experience leading teams through AI/ML adoption or integrating agentic workflows into engineering practices
- Experience with organizational scaling — growing teams, establishing processes, and navigating rapid change
- Track record of cross-timezone collaboration in distributed engineering organizations
About ActiveCampaign:
ActiveCampaign is the autonomous marketing platform that gives growing businesses the intelligence to market like a much larger team. Powered by Active Intelligence, ActiveCampaign turns each business’ own data into campaigns, automations, and customer experiences that get smarter over time. Learn more at activecampaign.com.
As a global multicultural company, we are proud of our inclusive culture which embraces diverse voices, backgrounds, and perspectives. We don’t just celebrate our differences, we believe our diversity is what empowers our innovation and success. You can find out more about our DEI initiatives here.
Perks and Benefits:
At ActiveCampaign, we prioritize employees’ well-being and professional growth by cultivating a culture centered on collaboration and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll not only have the opportunity to make a significant impact, but also enjoy a range of benefits tailored to support your personal and career development.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
-Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Top-tier benefits package that includes medical and dental benefits paid 100% by ActiveCampaign for you and 50% for your dependents, and reimbursements on vision expenses. In addition, employees receive complimentary access to telehealth services, and a free subscription to Calm.
-Growth & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning, professional development programs, and career growth opportunities in a fast-growing organization.
-Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge and take the time you need to maintain work-life balance.
-Total Rewards: Pension scheme with matching up to 1.5% of your contribution, MultiSport Plus card to support your active lifestyle, home office stipend to cover your commuter or work from home expenses, and a four-week paid sabbatical with bonus after five years.
-Collaborative Culture: Work alongside brilliant, passionate colleagues in an environment that values innovation, teamwork, and mutual support.
ActiveCampaign is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, pay, grow, and promote no matter of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, political opinion, national origin, social origin, parentage, workers union membership, economic status, religion, age, health condition, disability or any other grounds protected by law.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to foster a diverse inclusive environment by supporting each other, building a strong sense of belonging, and creating opportunities for mentorship and professional growth for their members.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
- Strong software development background building and deploying scalable cloud applications using CI/CD practices
- Production experience with PHP
- Database experience with SQL, NoSQL, and event streaming technologies
- Ability to drive prioritization, delivery cadence, and execution rigor across a team
- Experience solving challenging technical problems at scale with a quality-first mindset
- Strong communication skills and customer focus
- Fluent English at B2 minimum
- Willingness to work flexible hours with regular afternoon availability overlapping US Central Time
- Python or Java experience
- Experience leading AI/ML adoption or integrating agentic workflows into engineering practices
- Experience scaling organizations, growing teams, establishing processes, and navigating rapid change
- Experience collaborating across time zones in distributed engineering organizations
ActiveCampaign Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ActiveCampaign and has not been reviewed or approved by ActiveCampaign.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental‑health support, and telemedicine, with an option noted for a fully covered HDHP. Wellbeing resources like an EAP and Calm subscription complement core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Open/unlimited PTO, Volunteer Time Off, and a paid sabbatical after five years indicate a wide range of time‑off options. Hybrid/remote flexibility and work‑from‑home support reinforce the usability of these policies.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted at hire broadly, positioning ownership as a standard element of total compensation. This signals accessible participation in company value creation alongside salary and benefits.
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The Company
What We Do
ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must-have platform for intelligent marketing automation. Customers from over 170 countries depend on ActiveCampaign’s mix of pre-built automations and integrations (including Facebook, Google, WordPress, Salesforce, Shopify, and Square) to power personalized marketing, transactional emails, and one-to-one CRM interactions throughout the customer lifecycle. ActiveCampaign holds the highest customer satisfaction rating among Marketing Automation, E-Commerce Personalization, Landing Page Builders, and CRM solutions on G2.com and is one of only a handful of software solutions with over 10,000 positive reviews. ActiveCampaign has also been named the Top Rated Email Marketing Software on TrustRadius. Learn more and start your free trial at ActiveCampaign.com.
Why Work With Us
We are focused on our employees, our customers, and even our customer's customers. Ideas are valued over titles, contributions are valued over appearances, helping a co-worker is more important than outshining them. We are passionate about diversity and inclusion, believing everyone has a voice and can make a difference.
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