VP Engineering

Tylko is a Warsaw-based D2C furniture company operating across 28 markets, combining a proprietary 3D configurator with on-demand manufacturing. We're ~200 people and a dynamically growing business heading into the next phase of scale.

Tylko sits at an unusual intersection: the customer experience of a fast D2C brand, the product complexity of an innovative configurator with effectively infinite variants, and the operational reality of an on-demand manufacturing network. We're profitable and growing, and our peak days put more sessions through the configurator than most furniture brands see in a quarter.

Our technology team of ~40 engineers is in the middle of a major transformation: replatforming our e-commerce stack, migrating core business systems including ERP, and embedding AI deeply across the entire engineering workflow. Reporting directly to the CPTO, the VP Engineering joins at the most consequential moment in Tylko's technical history - owning the architecture decisions that will define how we scale for the next decade.

In this role, you will operate at the system level — designing how engineering works, not just what it builds.

You will drive the development of Tylko's proprietary IP:

• the configurator engine,

• the real-time rendering pipeline,

• and the fully automated, just-in-time production network that turns a customer's design into a manufactured product at scale.

You will empower our "Product Engineers" to deliver world-class solutions where deep technical architecture meets business-driven innovation.

AI is reshaping how we design, review, and ship software at Tylko, and we're leaning into it hard.

The company runs on Claude, agents are first-class assignees in Linear, and our engineers work AI-native by default — past the experimentation phase, into daily practice.

What we need now is the next gear: turning what works in pockets into standards, alignment, and acceleration across the entire tech org. Because tech sits at the heart of how the whole company adopts AI, this role also helps drive that broader journey beyond engineering.

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  Multiple years leading engineering at high-growth e-commerce or B2C scale-up environments, with hands-on experience scaling systems and teams through rapid business growth

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  Strong technical foundation across backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms - with the credibility to lead and make decisions across the full engineering stack

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  Ability to make smart decisions quickly and move on - comfortable with incomplete information, low attachment to being right, high attachment to moving forward

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  Actively curious engineer who stays close to emerging tools and AI-assisted development workflows - leading with credibility, not just authority

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  Proven ability to attract and hire senior engineering talent - both as a direct skill (you've personally closed strong candidates) and as a system-builder (you've shaped how teams hire, calibrate, and onboard). The Warsaw senior engineering market is competitive; this role wins or loses on the strength of the people you bring in.

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  Proven track record in leading major technical transformations or replatforming projects

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