Summary
In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into high-quality, scalable web and cloud-based web solutions. You will contribute to the technical direction, quality, and delivery of real‑world products while supporting teams through modern engineering and agile practices.Job description
What you’ll be doingPeople Leadership and Engineering Management: You will lead and support engineering managers, drive hiring, onboarding, and long‑term talent development, and coach managers and senior engineers to grow leadership capability across the organization. You will also run performance cycles and actively support career growth through clear expectations, regular feedback, and development planning.
Delivery Ownership: You will own delivery outcomes by ensuring plans and business commitments are met, while balancing speed, quality, and risk in a continuously changing environment. You will remove cross‑team blockers, enable collaboration on shared architecture and features, and establish predictable agile release cycles through active participation in planning, stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
Strategy, Vision, and Long‑Term Planning: You will define and drive the long‑term vision for technical platforms, identifying opportunities for modernization, consolidation, and new platform investments. You will stay close to emerging technologies and engineering practices, translating what matters into pragmatic improvements that raise the bar for reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
Stakeholder and Cross‑Organizational Collaboration: You will act as the primary technology partner for non‑technical teams such as Product Management, Marketing, Security, Legal, Compliance, IT governance, and Infrastructure, aligning priorities with business leaders and translating business needs into scalable technical solutions. You will communicate complex topics clearly to non‑technical audiences, represent engineering in leadership forums, and negotiate scope, timelines, and capacity while providing regular, transparent progress updates.
Governance, Security, and Compliance: You will oversee security practices such as DevSecOps and Secure Development Lifecycle across web and cloud systems, ensuring adherence to internal policies, legal requirements, and GDPR. You will partner with relevant teams to support audits and contribute to incident management to keep our systems safe, resilient, and compliant.
Budget, Capacity, and Vendor Management: You will collaborate on workforce and capacity planning, help justify and manage budgets for platforms and tools, and drive cost efficiency—including cloud cost management—so that investments align with outcomes and scale responsibly.
Culture, Quality, and Ways of Working: You will shape culture and ways of working by defining and enforcing quality standards for code, testing, and operations, and by promoting engineering best practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, documentation, and appropriate control processes. You will build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, and strengthen testing discipline through practices such as load testing and chaos engineering.
What we’re looking forWe’re looking for someone passionate about building practical, high-quality solutions with modern tools and a thoughtful approach.
- 5+ years practical experience with managing .NET, PHP, JavaScript, or DevOps engineering teams is a must
- Experience managing larger teams (more than 10 people) is an advantage.
- 5+ years practical experience with strong technical leadership in modern web and cloud architectures (APIs, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven patterns)
- Strong understanding of best practices in cloud computing, including security, scalability, and cost management
- Proven ability to scale engineering organizations through hiring, org design, succession planning, and coaching managers
- Track record of owning delivery across multiple teams, including roadmap execution, dependency management, and release governance
- Operational excellence mindset with experience in observability, incident response, postmortems, and SLO/SLI-driven reliability
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across Product, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Infrastructure; able to align priorities and negotiate scope
- Ability to balance technical debt with business outcomes, driving sustainable engineering practices, quality standards, and continuous improvement
- Experience with capacity planning and budgeting, including vendor/partner management and cost-efficient platform/tooling investments
Basic wage component (gross): from 4500 EUR
Performance bonus 2 times per year up to 20% of the basic salary paid for the evaluation period (usually 6 months)
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Benefits
Health & well-being- BenefitPlus
- Healthcare (check-ups/annual programs)
- Multisport card
- Travel card "električenka"
- Supplementary pension saving
- Sick days
- Marriage allowance
- Childbirth allowance
- Parental contribution
- ESET family events (Family day, St.Nicholas)
- Refreshments in the office (fruits, coffee, soft drinks)
- Let´s get together breakfast
- Activity room, quiet room
- ESET events (Žranica, Christmas party..), teambuildings
- Loyalty allowance
- Loyalty extra days off
- Loyalty cake
- Loyalty glass award
- Refer a friend
- Christmas presents
- Discounts from external providers
Primary location
BratislavaAdditional locations
Time type
Full timeSkills Required
- 5+ years practical experience with managing engineering teams
- 5+ years practical experience with strong technical leadership in modern web and cloud architectures
- Strong understanding of best practices in cloud computing
- Proven ability to scale engineering organizations through hiring
- Track record of owning delivery across multiple teams
- Operational excellence mindset with experience in observability
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to balance technical debt with business outcomes
- Experience with capacity planning and budgeting
ESET Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ESET and has not been reviewed or approved by ESET.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is viewed as strong, with added days off and vacation/PTO described positively. Policies around PTO appear to contribute meaningfully to overall value.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental benefits are highlighted as supportive, with enhanced parental leave referenced in multiple regions. This area is frequently cited as a standout element of the package.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work options such as hybrid schedules and flexible hours are emphasized and appear to be widely appreciated. Work-from-home flexibility is repeatedly highlighted as a strength.
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