Manager, Engineering (Java/Kotlin) - Merchant Experience

Location:

Warszawa, PL, 00-841

Company: Allegro sp. z o.o.

Team: Technology

Contract Type: Employee

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, office located in Warsaw in Fabryka Norblina

About the role
Join the Merchant Experience team! Help us build tools which empower Allegro Partners to grow. Your team is working in the Partner Onboarding area. You will work with them on processes which allow automatic joining to the Platform. Expect a lot of Domain Driven Design and challenging but rewarding work on system architecture.

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.

What will you do?

Lead the development team (5–7 members) and represent it within the organisation — ensuring accurate, scalable, and reliable delivery predictions
Provide technical leadership — mentoring, code reviews, championing high code quality
Guide your team through the design and implementation of key systems (languages: Kotlin/Java, stacks: Spring Boot, MongoDB, React, Google Cloud Platform)
Collaborate with supporting teams — data science, data engineering, analytics, UX, operations
Ensure people on your team have the necessary skills to deliver on the business requirements set in front of your team and help them grow as software engineers.

Who are we looking for?

Experience in leading a team (Java/Kotlin) 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 Domain Driven Design in practice
Familiarity with GCP

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 equipment 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

Why is it worth working with us:

We work with cutting-edge technologies to enhance our partners experience of the platform, optimizing the ever changing processes and adhering to evolving regulatory requirements
Depending on the team's needs, we use the latest versions of Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Go, Python, Spring, Spark, TensorFlow, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React
Our IT team includes over 1700 members who actively share their knowledge at various conferences and co-create a blog: allegro.tech
We operate with several thousand microservices, handling 1.8m+ rps on our business data bus
Big Data – managing several petabytes of data and leveraging Machine Learning in production environments
We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, and Pair Programming, depending on the team
Our internal ecosystem is founded on self-service and widely used tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, or GitHub Actions. From day one, you will be able to develop software using any language, architecture, and scale, limited only by your creativity and imagination
To match the scale, we build entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development while ensuring the best Developer Experience for our teams
Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand without needing management’s consent. You are responsible for what you create
Our deployment environment includes a combination of private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
We have over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on GitHub
We organize the Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and make guest appearances at various tech communities
We prioritize continuous development. We organize hackathons and internal conferences like the annual Allegro Tech Meeting. Our employees regularly attend events in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), with each team having its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you