Engineering Manager (Verticals)

Quick Facts

• Role: Engineering Manager (Verticals)

• Focus: Building category-specific shopping experiences

Description

Lead and coach an engineering team developing category-specific shopping experiences for customers, from early discovery through delivery and continuous improvement. Partner closely with Product, UX, analytics, and partner engineering teams to translate customer problems into reliable solutions. Apply engineering judgment to technical decisions and build sustainable engineering practices while measuring success by customer outcomes and engineering health.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers with clear expectations and ongoing feedback

• Recruit, onboard, and develop team capabilities

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

• Guide technical decisions across customer-facing experiences and supporting services

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

• Coordinate integration and dependencies with partner engineering teams

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

• Evaluate progress via customer outcomes and engineering health (not just shipped features)

Requirements

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams (coaching, feedback, recruitment, performance management)

• Strong software engineering background (architecture, system design, technical trade-offs)

• Product-oriented mindset

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

• Comfortable working with uncertainty and transforming open questions into testable approaches

• Data-driven approach using customer feedback and experiments

• Effective cross-team collaboration and dependency management

• Fluent in Polish and good command of English

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid schedule (4/1), with working hours starting between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.; up to 30 days occasional remote work

• Annual bonus tied to performance and company results

• Long-term incentive plan via restricted stock units based on Allegro.eu shares

• Well-equipped offices and modern work tools (MacBook Pro or Dell with Windows)

• Cafeteria fringe benefits (e.g., medical, sports/lunch packages, insurance, vouchers)

• Paid English classes relevant to the job

• Training budget, hackathons, internal learning platform, inter-team initiatives

• Additional volunteering day off

• Social events and community activities

• Developer Experience tooling and platform ecosystem (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, GitHub Actions)