Engineering Team Manager (Java/Kotlin) - Delivery Experience

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 requires 3 days a week in the Warsaw office 

At Delivery Experience, we build the technology we need to make Allegro deliveries easy, cheap, quick, and reliable.

We take care of the critical services along the Allegro purchase pathway and parcel delivery. We build tools that support this and enable the development of logistics infrastructure. Our key services are responsible, among others, for:

• support the purchase on the platform in respect of estimating delivery time and selecting the most convenient delivery method
• providing tools for Merchants regarding parcel dispatch
• monitoring the delivery, integrations with carriers and financial operations
• carrying out the post purchase processes, i.e. returns

Delivery Experience is one of the fastest-growing areas where we implement new, complex and ambitious projects aiming to build strong logistic solutions on Polish and International markets.

We are growing and expanding our product portfolio, which is why we are on the lookout for a Team Leader who wants to jump on board to implement those projects with us. At Allegro, you will:

• create efficient and stable solutions unique on a European scale,
• manage the work of interdisciplinary teams consisting of the best engineers in Poland,
• enjoy great autonomy as you work alongside your team to create architecture and monitor results in the production environment.

We are looking for people who:

• ​​Can and want to take care and responsibility for their team’s development, have excellent communication skills, and value the "servant leadership" approach
• Have the ability to manage and build relationships in a team
• Are familiar with making difficult decisions
• Can listen, motivate and provide constructive feedback as well as select adequate development activities for their team
• Are experts in software development and system architecture
• Are fluent in JVM technologies and want to learn new ones
• 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
• Want to be proud of the code they create. They eagerly accept comments and share knowledge during code reviews
• Enjoy constant developing and updating their knowledge
• Know Polish and English languages on at least B2 level

What we offer:

• Annual bonus up to 20% of the annual salary gross (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

• 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 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)

Why is it worth working with us?

• We use, depending on teams and their needs, the latest versions of Java, Kotlin, Spring, Reactive Programming, Spark, Scala, Groovy, Python, Hadoop, GCP, Mongo, k8s, Jupyter
• Microservices - we are seriously into microservices (1500+), and run them at scale (1.8m + rps per DC on our 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, GitHub Actions or Bamboo. This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture, and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination 
• We actively participate in the life of the biggest user groups in Poland centered around technologies we use at work (Java, Python, Devops). We organize training sessions, workshops, and presentations in Poznan, Warsaw, Torun, and Krakow
• 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 two private Data Centers (10 000 servers) and the Public Cloud (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
• Over 100 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

Apply to Allegro and see why it is #dobrzetubyć (#goodtobehere)