Tech Leader

• Important:

This position is
only for candidates legally residing in Poland
and operating under a registered sole proprietorship (JDG).

As part of onboarding, we kindly invite new joiners to our Warsaw office on the first day for a short introduction and identity verification.

Please note that applications from outside Poland cannot be considered.

About Us
Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

Project Description
MyPortal is a customer-facing application that supports teachers in their daily workflow by acting as a seamless digital companion to physical educational materials. It serves as the central access point for all digital products a school has licensed, creating an integrated and intuitive experience across different learning methods. Focused on usability, clarity, and time-saving functionality, MyPortal helps teachers access lesson resources, manage digital tasks, and discover new products in one streamlined environment.

We aim to become the trusted digital gateway for all educational tools across our ecosystem—harmonising access and ensuring a consistent, efficient, and personalised experience for every teacher.

Role Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner of one or more products, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Lead the design and evolution of system architecture, including microservices and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap and align it with business goals.
• Guide the engineering team in best practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Mentor and coach senior, medior, and junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, balancing innovation with pragmatism.
• Oversee and improve CI/CD pipelines, DevOps processes, and infrastructure architecture.
• Ensure robust testing, observability, and performance monitoring are in place.
• Take responsibility for critical incidents and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrences.
• Contribute to recruitment, team structure, and long-term engineering vision.

Must-have Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in PHP, with deep expertise in Laravel.
• Proven experience leading teams and guiding technical direction.
• Strong background in architecting complex systems, including microservices and API-first solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of MySQL and database design, optimization, and scaling.
• Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure (S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, EC2, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Advanced understanding of software architecture principles (DDD, CQRS, hexagonal architecture, event-driven systems).
• Strong track record in testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end, automation).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of translating technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead incident response, technical investigations, and long-term remediation.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience with multi-region, high-availability architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (Argo CD, Helm) and container orchestration at scale.
• Experience scaling event-driven architectures and using message queues (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Interest in shaping engineering culture, recruitment, and strategic planning.

Location
100% remote work

Business travel and its frequency
On site Team meetings (1/2 year)

What We Offer
B2B contract for an indefinite period;

Work-life balance and great atmosphere;

Opportunities for professional development through interesting tasks.

As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you are able and encouraged to show your best self. The working environment is result-oriented as well as flexible with a focus on collaboration. We offer you a key position with interesting and challenging tasks and excellent opportunities for professional growth. You will be part of a highly professional and experienced international team in an open and informal setting, where initiative is expected and rewarded.