Manager, Engineering (Java / Kotlin) - Consumer

About the role

Join the Recommendation team! You will have a chance to build tools for recommendations on Allegro - one of the most visible products on the platform. Your team work closely with the Machine Learning team, creating the best experience for customers. High performance, engineering best practices and great atmosphere in the team guaranteed!

We are looking for a leader who is still close to technology. In this role, you will spend around 20-50% of your time on technical work (coding, code reviews, architecture), with the remaining time focused on team development and business collaboration.

Important things for you

• Contract of employment, tax-deductible costs
• Depending on your annual assessment and the company's results we offer:
  • Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.
  • Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).
• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Our team is based in Warsaw.

What will you do?

• Lead the development team (5-7 members) – ensuring accurate, scalable, and reliable delivery predictions
• Technical leadership – mentoring, code reviews, ensuring high code quality
• Design and implementation of key systems (languages: Scala, Java/Kotlin, Python, stacks: Spring Boot, Apache Pekko, Apache Spark, Google Cloud Platform)
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams - data science, data engineering, analytics, UX, operations
• Ensuring high quality - clean code, code review, TDD, CI/CD to ensure the quality and maintainability

Who are we looking for?

• Experience in leading a team (Java/Kotlin and/or Scala) as a Tech Lead or Team Leader
• Still actively coding and eager to maintain technical expertise
• Strong knowledge of engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, scalable architecture)
• Experience with high-traffic distributed systems and data engineering
• Ability to bridge technical and business perspectives
• Proficiency in English (B2+)
  
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with ML
• Familiarity with GCP data engineering tools: BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc

What's in it for you:

• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).

• A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.

• 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.

• A training budget, inter-team tourism (see more here), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings. 

• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal. 

• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

And that's just the beginning! You can read more about the benefits here.

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.

• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.

• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job. 

• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).

• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.

• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning. 

• You will become part of Allegro Tech - We speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about! 

Send us your CV and… see you at Allegro!