Engineering Manager
PLG Group: GoOut & Ticketportal
Praha · Kraj Praha · Česká republika
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đź©·About us
At PLG Group, we connect people with culture: from concerts, theatre, and festivals to art exhibitions and live events across Czechia and Slovakia.
We started out as GoOut back in 2011, driven by a simple idea: to make it easier for people to discover and experience culture. Over the years, we’ve grown together with the local scene, and in 2023, we became part of the PLG Group, one of Europe’s leading live-event platforms.
Since then, our group has expanded to include Ticketstream and Ticketportal, bringing together the strongest local brands under one roof. Thanks to that, we can keep doing what we love — supporting culture — but now with even better tools, technology, and reach to improve the experience for organisers and visitors alike.
What hasn’t changed? Our mindset. We still work in a creative, open, and no-BS way, close to the artists, promoters, and audiences who make culture happen every day.
đź’šYour role
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead our mobile engineering team while staying hands-on as a developer. This is primarily a people- and team-leadership role, with hands-on coding as a smaller, complementary part of your week. You'll have the space to take ownership of the team, contribute to our architecture, and make a meaningful impact as an active contributor to the codebase — working alongside a seasoned technical lead on the team who shares ownership of architecture decisions with you. We're looking for a senior engineer who can mentor the team, contribute to our React Native/Expo architecture, and push forward what our multi-tenant SaaS product can do.
What you’ll do:
Lead and mentor the development team: set technical direction, review work, refine tasks, and remove blockers so the team ships high-quality, maintainable code.
Contribute to the architecture: collaborate with the team's technical lead on decisions for scalability, security, and maintainability, including the multi-instance / white-label setup that lets us scale one codebase across many client deployments.
Stay hands-on: contribute code to the React Native/Expo app, implement UI from Figma designs, integrate our internal REST API, Firebase, and external APIs such as Regula, and help maintain custom build clients (EAS Build) for each SaaS instance.
Run the engineering side of delivery: manage workflows; partner with the Product Owner on timelines, and priorities.
Secure what the team needs: research and propose the tools, headcount, or investments the team needs to do its best work, and advocate for the team across departments.
Our stack:
Mobile: React Native, Expo SDK, custom build clients
Language: JavaScript and TypeScript - comfortable moving between both, and gradually typing existing code
Infrastructure & services: Firebase, REST API, push notifications, Regula
Design: Figma
Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Prisma ORM, Firebase
Who we're looking for:
Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills, with the judgment to balance hands-on coding with people management.
Solid experience with React Native and the Expo ecosystem, and comfortable working across JavaScript and TypeScript.
Hands-on experience integrating REST APIs and Firebase (auth, database, push notifications).
Experience with custom Expo dev clients, or a willingness to learn them - Expo Go alone isn’t enough for our setup.
The analytical mindset to write code that’s reusable and configurable across multiple independent SaaS instances.
Nice to have:
Full-stack range: Node.js, Express.js, and Prisma ORM, so you can design and build your own API endpoints.
Experience integrating identity/document-verification tools (Regula).
Experience automating builds for multiple apps (CI/CD, EAS submit).
Strategic thinking and data-analytics experience.
Experience with Agile/Scrum or similar collaborative workflows.
🩶Benefits & Why You’ll Love Working Here
Hybrid work after the probation period – usually 3 days in the office, up to 2 days home office (we trust teams to agree on what works)
All benefits below from day one for HPP employees
25 days of holiday
MultiSport card – you pay 330 CZK, we cover the rest
Edenred Flexi benefits – 10,560 CZK/year for culture, leisure, health or education
Meal vouchers – 124 CZK per working day, paid monthly with your salary
FreshPoint fridge with yummy ready-to-eat meals for the better price
Fully stocked kitchen – fruit, snacks, great coffee, toasties and plenty of alternative milks
Modern office in the centre of Prague – right by the main train station, co-working spaces included, and yes… the rooftop with breathtaking sunset views of Prague Castle
Free or discounted tickets to selected events on our platforms (we have a Slack channel for this!)
Coursera Plus for learning and your growth
Possibility of joining English classes
Company MacBook
Team life – monthly breakfasts with leaders, summer BBQs, offsites, sports, Xmas parties… and room for your ideas (seriously!)
Open, no-bullshit communication and a high-trust culture
Recruitment process
Apply: Send your CV in English with a few sentences on why you’d like to join us.
Get to know each other: a casual call with Deborah from People Team about your motivation and experience.
Interview with Hiring Manager: Conversation about the role, daily agenda, and expectations.
Meet the rest of the team.
Job offer – If it’s a match, we’ll be happy to welcome you to the team!