Engineering Team Manager (Java/Kotlin) - Consumer Technology Experience

Job Description

Important things for you:

• Contract of employment, tax-deductible cost

• Additionally, depending on your annual assessment and the company's results:

  • Annual bonus up to 20% of the annual salary gross 

  • Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares

• A hybrid work model requires 3 days a week in the Warsaw office located in Fabryka Norblina

In the Consumer area, we pursue the best possible customer experience, starting from main site visits, through browsing, searching and comparing listings, to the purchasing process and post-purchase services on all platforms (web, mobile web, iOS and Android). We are responsible for external traffic that involves thousand of requests per second. We have hundreds of millions of records in our database, microservice architecture on the back-end, and micro-frontends.

We conduct dozens of experiments, test hundreds of variants, analyse results and draw conclusions that we convert into specific tasks. We systematically take care of the fast and smooth operations of our sites. We monitor and solve issues related to efficiency, developing an optimum code to provide clients with the best user experience at Allegro.

We have nearly 30 teams made up of engineers that have various skills. We also cooperate with designers, researchers and analysts.

Team Manager in Allegro is a person who leads the development team, with whom he creates new, ambitious and complex projects. As a Manager, you connect two worlds, technological one (architecture design, writing code) and the world related to team management and taking care of the development of team members.

We are looking for people who:

• Are experts in software development and architecture

• Are able and willing to take care of the team, have excellent communication skills and value the approach of 'servant leadership'

• Have ability to manage and built relationship in a team Are not afraid of taking tough decisions

• Are able to listen, motivate, providing constructive feedback and choose adequate development efforts for their team

• Have experience in leading teams working in agile methodologies

• Are able to work closely with business, are able to combine technical and business issues

• Are advanced in JVM technologies and are willing to learn new Expect work that has a deeper meaning (not just "management commissioned"), and want to enjoy the results

• Want to be proud of the code they create

• Are willing to accept feedback and share knowledge during code reviews

• Are able to look for effective solutions to user requirements

• Want to keep growing and updating their knowledge

• Know English languages on at least B2 level

Additionally, we offer:

• Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)

• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job

• 16" or 14" MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon processor and, 36GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need 

• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things

• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)

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• Why is it worth working with us?

• Drive the development of Customer Experience: You’ll have the opportunity to work on  unique products with high complexity, scale and impact on Allegro Customer Experience.

• Make a Real-World Impact: Your work will directly impact the reliability and performance of Allegro, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for millions of users. You'll be a guardian of uptime, ensuring that Allegro's systems run smoothly 24/7.

• Grow and Learn in a Supportive Environment: You'll be part of a highly skil