R&D Manager

About the role

We are looking for an experienced R&D Manager to lead a software engineering team delivering mission-critical telco products used by mobile operators worldwide. The role combines people leadership, technical ownership, delivery management, quality focus, and cross‑functional coordination. You will manage a team of software engineers working on complex telecom platforms, ensure predictable delivery, drive engineering excellence, and contribute to product evolution in a cloud‑native environment.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Own planning and execution of R&D activities within the assigned product area.
• Ensure delivery of features, fixes, technical improvements, and customer commitments.
• Manage priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and delivery milestones.
• Work closely with Product Management, Architecture, QA, Support, Program Management, and Operations.
• Support technical decision‑making together with architects and senior engineers.
• Drive improvements in product quality, test coverage, automation, CI/CD, and release readiness.
• Promote engineering excellence, maintainability, scalability, security, and operational stability.
• Reduce technical debt, repeated defects, and field issues through structured root‑cause analysis.
• Support modernization toward cloud‑native, containerized, and Kubernetes‑based deployments.

Required profile

• Proven experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or R&D management.
• 3+ years in a team lead or engineering manager role.
• Experience leading development teams in a complex product environment.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, release management, and quality processes.
• Ability to manage priorities across roadmap, maintenance, customer issues, and technical debt.
• Strong communication skills in English; fluent in Czech.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery.
• Candidate should be EU citizen or permanent resident in the EU.