Engineering Manager - Platform

About IP Fabric

Join a pioneering force in network automation!

At IP Fabric, we enable people to uncover the truth about their networks. Built by network professionals and industry experts, our innovative solutions are transforming how enterprises manage their networks. As a post-Series B company, we're expanding rapidly across Europe, the U.S., and beyond.

About The Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Product Platform team, a group of six backend and DevOps engineers who own the foundations of the IP Fabric product: how it is structured, built, tested, deployed, licensed, and run.

The team is in the middle of meaningful modernisation work. That includes decomposing a monolithic application into clearer boundaries, evolving deployment from a Debian package model toward containers, reworking build and test pipelines, and improving the stability and performance of core services that every other engineering team depends on.

You will lead and grow that team, stay technically close to the work, and partner with Product to build a roadmap that connects platform engineering to business outcomes. A significant part of this role is making sure the wider organisation understands the value the team delivers. Your success is measured by team effectiveness, delivery, and the organisation's trust in the platform team , not by your personal code output.

What You’ll Do

Lead, coach, and support a team of senior backend and DevOps engineers

Build a business-driven platform roadmap in partnership with Product, and communicate it clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders

Make the team's work legible: connect platform initiatives to delivery speed, stability, security, and customer impact

Establish a clear intake model for requests from feature teams, Product, QA, and Support, and hold sensible ownership boundaries

Guide technical decision-making and architectural direction, including deployment modernisation and application decomposition

Create a healthy, predictable delivery environment that accounts for both planned initiatives and interrupt-driven work

Represent platform constraints and dependencies to the teams that build on top of the platform

Hire, onboard, and grow engineers over time

What You'll Need

Experience leading software engineers in a product company

Strong background in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering

Demonstrated ability to define technical direction and justify it to non-engineering stakeholders

Comfortable with architecture, deployment, and performance discussions at a level that earns the respect of senior engineers

Ability to balance technical depth with people leadership

Clear, pragmatic communication style in English, written and spoken

Bonus points if you have

Experience leading a platform, developer experience, or enablement team

Familiarity with Node.js / TypeScript and Python

Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, containers and Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems

Experience with on-prem as well as cloud delivery models

Experience with application modernisation or monolith decomposition

Experience working closely with Product Managers on internal or platform products

Benefits & Perks

25 days of holidays + 5 flexi-days.

Pluxee Flexi Card (up to 16 000 CZK per year).

Anniversary rewards.

Collaboration with diverse, international teams.

A pet-friendly office at IP Pavlova.

Complementary and yummy snacks, coffee, brew and refreshments.

Regular team and company events.

Join us to experience the unique culture of a founder-led startup, where from top to bottom everyone is hands-on and has a chance to make a tangible impact on influential enterprises worldwide. Being part of IP Fabric means being part of a flexible environment that prioritizes work-life balance and growth opportunities.