Engineering Manager - Verticals

Quick Facts

• Role: Engineering Manager (Verticals)

• Collaboration: Product Manager, UX, analytics, and partner engineering teams

• Focus: Category-specific shopping experiences; discovery-to-production delivery and continuous improvement

Description

Lead an engineering team to build and evolve shopping experiences tailored to different categories. Partner with Product, UX, analytics, and partners to translate customer needs into reliable solutions, guiding technical decisions from early discovery through production and learning loops.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and support growth

• Recruit, onboard, and build the team’s engineering capabilities

• Collaborate with Product, UX, and analytics to shape achievable product plans

• Guide technical decisions balancing delivery speed, reliability, performance, and maintainability

• Support delivery from discovery to production by managing uncertainty, risks, and learning from releases

• Coordinate with partner engineering teams on responsibilities, integration boundaries, and dependencies

• Build sustainable engineering practices (testing, observability, operational ownership, incident learning)

• Measure progress via customer outcomes and engineering health

Requirements

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams including coaching, recruitment, and performance management

• Strong software engineering background for architecture, system design, and trade-offs

• Product-oriented mindset focused on customer problem discovery

• Ability to lead across user-facing applications and backend services

• Comfortable working with uncertainty and turning questions into testable plans

• Ability to use data, customer feedback, and experiments to validate assumptions

• Strong cross-team collaboration; make dependencies and constraints explicit

• Fluent in Polish and good command of English

Benefits

• Flexible working hours in a hybrid model (4/1) with 30 days occasional remote work

• Annual bonus based on performance and company results

• Long-term discretionary incentive plan via Allegro.eu restricted stock units

• Well-located offices and excellent work tools

• MacBook Pro or Dell with Windows and required accessories

• Cafeteria benefits (medical, sports, lunch, insurance, vouchers)

• Paid English classes related to job needs

• Training budget, hackathons, and an internal learning platform

• Additional day off for volunteering

• Social events and community activities