Manager, Engineering (Tech Platform Design)

About the Team:

We offer a contract of employment and a hybrid work model (3 days a week in the office).

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

 

Allegro’s development teams consist of over 1700 IT experts with various areas of specialization who collaborate to enhance our service. Due to the unique scale and complexity of the challenges we tackle each day, we have the opportunity to advance by engaging in a wide range of projects. We’re seeking a manager for our “Design System” development team, which every frontend developer at Allegro utilizes. Significant changes are ahead in how Allegro appears and behaves for users, so if you’re interested in creating scalable UI code and leveraging AI in design and development processes, join us!

Your main responsibilities:

- Drive the development of Development Environments: You’ll have the opportunity to work on a unique product with high complexity, scale and impact on Allegro development teams.
- 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 skilled and collaborative team that values knowledge sharing and continuous learning. You'll have access to training resources, mentorship, and opportunities to develop your skills in a variety of areas, from programming and infrastructure to cloud technologies and DevOps practices.
- Solve Unique Challenges at Scale: Allegro's complex and dynamic infrastructure presents unique monitoring challenges. You'll have the opportunity to tackle these challenges head-on, developing creative solutions that can be applied at scale. You'll also gain valuable experience working with a wide range of technologies and systems.
- You will have the opportunity to work in a team of experienced engineers and specialists who are happy to share their knowledge (at internal events and publicly at Allegro Tech)
- We promote Open Source. We develop some of our projects on Allegro Tech · GitHub
- As a team, we take responsibility for all aspects of the development and maintenance of our systems and for their adoption within the organization

This is the right job for you if:

- You have a strong programming foundation: You're proficient in Java and/or Kotlin and you can apply your coding skills to develop custom solutions, automate tasks, and integrate with existing systems.
- You have database skills: You're comfortable working with various databases like Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis, and you can use this knowledge to monitor database performance and health.
- You have basic Ops skills: You have basic skills in Puppet and writing scripts (bash, Python, Go) and can apply it in practice to automate hosts management and monitoring.
- You value engineering best practices: You advocate for clean code, code review, TDD, and CI/CD to ensure the quality and maintainability.
- You thrive in a collaborative environment: You're a team player with strong communication skills and a positive attitude. You're eager to share your knowledge and learn from others. You are comfortable collaborating closely with other teams and exploring new technologies.).

What we offer:

- A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms).
- Annual bonus up to 10% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results).
- 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 M1 processor and, 32GB 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).
- If you want to learn more, check it out
This may also be of interest to you:
Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/
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