Engineering Team Manager (Go/Python) - TP&O

We offer a contract of employment, tax-deductible cost 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

Are you passionate about building innovative solutions that directly impact millions of users? Our Network department is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge tools and platforms that enhance the customer experience at Allegro. By creating and maintaining a modern IT network infrastructure that spans trust and security, communications, and automation, we empower our teams and customers to deliver exceptional service.

As a manager in the Pluton team, you'll steer the ship of our WAF & reverse-proxy advancements. We develop and maintain key tools within anti-bot protection and HTTP acceleration, enabling our customers and merchants to seamlessly access Allegro.Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining Web Application Firewall solution, as well as managing the lifecycle of reverse proxy layers based on both Varnish Cache and Nginx. Take this opportunity to innovate and elevate the Allegro customer journey with us.

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 experience in leading teams working with the use of ‘agile’ methodologies

• Have the ability to manage and build relationships in a team of skilled engineers

• Have good prioritization skills, are familiar and not afraid with making difficult decisions in the name of product and company

• Can listen, motivate and provide constructive feedback as well as select adequate development activities for their team

• Are experts in software development, operational excellence and modern system architecture

• Are fluent in Go/Python technologies and want to learn new ones 

• Collaborate closely with infrastructure teams to align on services they run (e.g., Consul, Service Mesh, Varnish, databases

• Value engineering best practices: advocate for clean code, code review, TDD, and CI/CD to ensure the quality and maintainability

• 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 English languages on at least B2 level

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 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

Why is it worth working with us?

• 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

• Once a year you can take advantage of the option to go on a Team Tourism

This may also be of interest to you:

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

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