Team Leader (Java/Kotlin) – Merchant Experience & Ads

Job Description

A hybrid work model that incorporates solutions developed by the leader and the team

About the team/About the job

In the Ads department, we are responsible for creating solutions that facilitate advertising for our advertisers and enhance the return on investment in advertising. This, in turn, allows sellers to grow their businesses in Poland and other markets within the Allegro group. We take pride in the fact that the products we have built are experiencing a 40% YoY growth. Therefore, we are looking for new team members to help us build solutions and architecture to support such dynamic expansion. We are currently seeking an experienced Engineering Team Manager to lead a team of several engineers (Backend and Frontend). You will be working on automated campaigns often in collaboration with ML teams. Together with the team, you will oversee all aspects of product development, from ideation (in collaboration with Product Managers) through development, ending with deployment and maintenance of operational solutions. We are continuously working to expand the capabilities of our solutions in line with Allegro’s expansion. Currently, the team is distributed across three cities, with the majority of members residing in Poznań and Warsaw.

We are looking for people who

• ​​Want to take care about merchant domain and take responsibility for their team’s development, have excellent communication skills, and value the “servant leadership” approach as we are
• Have the ability to manage and build relationships in a team of skilled engineers
• Can listen, motivate and provide constructive feedback as well as select adequate development activities for their team
• Have good prioritization skill, are familiar and not afraid with making difficult decisions in the name of product and company
• Have the ability to convince others when discussing business and technical solutions inline with the best market practices
• Are experts in software development, operational excellence and modern system architecture
• Are fluent in JVM technologies and want to learn new ones
• Have ambitions to use cloud technologies and Kubernetes
• Have experience in leading teams working with the use of “agile” methodologies
• Can look for effective solutions to the requirements of our users
• Are able to work closely with the business (can reconcile technical and business issues)
• Can present the necessary technical work in the context of business risks
• Expect work that has a deeper meaning (not only the “management has commissioned”) and wants to enjoy its results, are looking for mastery
• Want to be proud of the technical solutions their team creates. They eagerly share knowledge during code reviews
• Enjoy constant developing and updating their knowledge necessary to stay on top in the constantly changing product environment
• Know English languages on at least B2 level

The following are also a plus

Having hand on experience in working with

• highly complex system using microservice architecture 
• event driven, high volume, real-time system

would be a great advantage.

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 (depending on your annual assessment and the company’s results)
• Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares
• 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
• Laptop with m1 processor, 32GB RAM, SSD – a 16” or 14” MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs), two monitors and all other gadgets that you should 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

Your main responsibilities

• building high available complex software architectures,
• building the team of engineers to efficiently deliver business value through technical work, 
• developing team’s members by taking into account individual preferences and needs to achieve mastery and autonomy while fulfilling the purpose of employee and the organization
• being a partner to Product Manager in the product development journey and project  
• reporting team initiatives progress and risks to the senior management chain
• driving cross-team initiatives and collaboration to develop development and organizational processes 
• budgeting reporting (headcount allocation to business initiatives; integration, training, recognition budget usage and plan)

Why is it worth working with us

• We use, depending on teams and their needs, the latest versions of Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Go, Python, Spring, Spark, Mesos, TensorFlow, JavaScript/TypeScript, React
• The IT team is made up of over 2000 highly skilled specialists who create the biggest marketplace platform in Poland and CEE (we are among the TOP 15 marketplaces in the world)
• Architecture – 1500+ microservices and 1.8M+ RPS per DC 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 (10000 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), 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 may also be of interest to you

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

Booklet → https://jobs.allegro.eu/job-areas/tech-data/ 

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