Frontend Software Engineer 1

Main Responsibilities

- Execute well-defined tasks with medium complexity within the scope of team projects.
- Complete tasks based on predefined priority levels.
- Understand the user and their perspective to inform development decisions.
- Use semantic code and learn the basics of accessibility to avoid common barriers for users with disabilities.
- Conduct optional off-hours duty on team products - possible via joint employee's and manager's decision.
- Take responsibility and ownership for developed features.
- Propose and implement solutions to engineering challenges.
- Seek assistance from teammates when needed to overcome technical obstacles.
- Make decisions about code constructs and consult with the team on architectural issues.
- Suggest design process improvements to enhance product quality.
- Identify logical errors in the codebase and propose actionable improvements.
- Define and report technical debt to ensure long-term quality at the code and architecture levels.
- Actively acquire and apply product domain knowledge during development.
- Consider the impact of work on other domains to ensure system-wide consistency.
- Build a solid foundation in the chosen technology stack.
- Learn new technologies and apply the acquired knowledge effectively in projects.
- Meet quality standards including code readability, testing, architecture, stability, and monitoring.
- Focus on mastering and working within a single core technology.
- Occasionally providing constructive feedback.
- Incorporate received feedback into ongoing work and professional development.
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with others using facts and data.
- Engage in self-development and pursue growth within well-defined professional areas.
- Occasionally share knowledge with the team or individual colleagues.

This section outlines only the main responsibilities of your role. Your direct manager is to define the full scope of your tasks.

Your main responsibilities:

Allegro’s development teams boast more than 1700 IT experts with various areas of specialisation, who work together to develop our service. Due to the unique scale and complexity of the problems that we solve each day, we have the opportunity to develop by taking up a wide variety of projects. At Allegro, we create mobile applications, build tools that facilitate posting, presenting and searching for listings, we develop components related to the purchasing process, payments, the billing process and fees as well as dispatching and tracking of parcels. We design content and advertisement management tools and, for the purpose of analytics, we create and maintain data structures to support business teams with information.
Why is it worth working with us:
- We use, among others, Java 17, Kotlin, Coroutines, Scala, Spring, Reactive Programming, Spark, Dataproc, Microservices architecture supporting high request rates on our business data bus. Utilizing extensive Big Data resources on GCP and incorporating Machine Learning into our operational workflows.
- The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as DevDays or Devoxx, and co-create a blog: allegro.tech.
- Microservices – a few thousand microservices and 1.8m rps on our business data bus.
- Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production.
- We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team.
- Our internal ecosystem is based on self-service and widely used tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub or GitHub Actions.
- This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination.
- To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams.
- Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create.
- Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure).
- Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github.
- We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit.
- We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you.

This is the right job for you if:

- You code in Java and/or Kotlin/Scala.
- You expect work that has a deeper meaning (not only tasks "management has commissioned") and want to enjoy its results.
- You want to be proud of the code they create.
- You eagerly accept comments and share knowledge during code reviews.
- You can look for effective solutions to the requirements set by users.
- You want to constantly develop and update their knowledge.
- You know English at B2 level.

What we offer: