Manager, Engineering

Join the Vento product team as an Engineering Manager.

Vento is an internal system for managing the lifecycle of clickstream event contracts. It provides a centralized framework for defining, validating, monitoring, routing, and consuming event data. By ensuring schema compatibility, Vento streamlines collaboration between data producers and consumers, making event-driven architecture reliable and easy to maintain. It also provides a foundation for the data and AI ecosystem.

Quick Facts

• Location: Warsaw or Poznań
• Hybrid work model: 4/1
• Flexible start time between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
• 30 days of occasional remote work

Responsibilities

• Coach, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary team of 5–6 engineers, ensuring well-being and professional growth.
• Maintain a holistic view of the technical architecture and align engineering solutions with business context and platform goals.
• Support and guide the team in using AI-assisted coding and AI-based user support.
• Collaborate with business consumers in Marketing, Loyalty, and Sales, as well as technical stakeholders, Data Assets teams, and the Data Platform Product Manager.
• Lead creation of the Vento vision with the team, users, and stakeholders; apply product-management practices to maximize company value.
• Support the team’s on-call rotation framework to ensure 24/7 stability of the event-processing pipeline.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineering teams and a strong hands-on engineering background.
• Technical orientation across Big Data (Python, Scala, Spark), backend (Java/Kotlin), and frontend (Angular) environments.
• Willingness to drive core team deliverables and contribute to company-wide initiatives, task forces, or working groups.
• Proactive approach to identifying and escalating issues, bottlenecks, and risks.
• Native or fluent Polish and English at a minimum B2 level.
• Openness to join a 24/7 on-call rotation, including weekend and night standby.

What We Offer

• Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on restricted stock units in Allegro.eu shares.
• Annual bonus based on individual performance and company results.
• Well-located offices with equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, green terraces, and professional work equipment.
• Choice of a 16-inch or 14-inch MacBook Pro, or a Dell Windows laptop, with necessary accessories.
• Cafeteria-plan benefits, including medical, sports, lunch packages, insurance, and purchase vouchers.
• Employer-funded English classes related to the role.
• Training budget, inter-team tourism, hackathons, and an internal learning platform.
• An additional day off for volunteering.
• Social events.

Working Environment

• Work with experienced specialists in a team focused on knowledge sharing.
• Autonomy in team organization, continuous development, and technology selection.
• Internal self-service ecosystem using Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Modern AI tools for automating repetitive work and supporting development of new and existing services.
• Opportunity to build solutions used by millions of customers.
• Engineering environment with more than 1,000 microservices, the Hermes open-source data bus handling 300K+ requests per second, a service mesh handling 1M+ requests per second, tens of petabytes of data, and production machine learning.
• Opportunities to participate in industry conferences, technology communities, blogs, podcasts, guilds, and internal technical events.