Engineering Manager - Verticals

Allegro Ltd.; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Bonus program

RSU incentives

Well-located offices

Laptop provided

Fringe benefits plan

English classes

Training budget

Volunteer day

Social events

Job summary

Allegro Ltd. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a category-focused shopping experience team. You will partner with Product, UX and analytics to translate customer problems into reliable solutions, from discovery through delivery and continuous improvement.

You will hire, coach and develop engineers, shaping technical direction and delivery practices in a large marketplace environment. Polish language is essential and English is also used across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams.
• Strong software engineering background.
• Product-oriented mindset and customer focus.
• Ability to lead work spanning user-facing apps and backend services.
• Comfort with uncertainty and change.
• Data-driven decision making using feedback and experiments.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and dependencies.
• Fluent in Polish and good command of English.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop an engineering team with clear expectations and growth opportunities.
• Identify and build team capabilities through recruitment and onboarding.
• Partner with Product, UX and analytics to understand customer needs and shape product plans.
• Guide technical decisions across customer experiences and supporting services.
• Support delivery from discovery to production and manage risks.
• Coordinate work with partner engineering teams and define boundaries.
• Establish testing, observability and incident learning practices.
• Evaluate progress by customer outcomes and engineering health.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Product-minded

Full-stack ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Data-driven

Cross-team collaboration

Polish & English

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Consul

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Job description

Buying groceries, choosing a laptop and finding the right car part are different shopping challenges. We want the experience on Allegro to reflect those differences, combining the breadth of our marketplace with guidance and features tailored to each category.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help build and lead an engineering team developing these category-specific shopping experiences. Working closely with a Product Manager, UX, analytics and partner teams, you will help turn customer problems into reliable solutions - from early discovery through delivery and continuous improvement.

Here’s why you should join us:

• Visible customer impact. Help customers find relevant products, understand their options and make more confident purchase decisions.
• Shape the team. Take an active role in hiring, onboarding and developing engineers, while establishing engineering practices that support the team’s work.
• Influence the product, not just delivery. Bring engineering judgment into discovery, test assumptions and help choose solutions that balance customer value, technical complexity and long-term maintainability.
• Build within a large marketplace. Develop category-specific capabilities while working with teams responsible for shared Allegro services and experiences.

Important things for you:

• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) — working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Depending on your annual assessment and the company's results we offer:
  • Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.
  • Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).
• Our team is based in Poznań and Warsaw.

In your daily work, you will handle the following tasks:

• Lead, coach and develop an engineering team, providing clear expectations, regular feedback and opportunities for growth.
• Help build the team’s capabilities through recruitment, onboarding and thoughtful development of its skills.
• Partner with Product, UX and analytics to understand customer needs, explore opportunities and shape achievable product plans.
• Guide technical decisions across customer-facing experiences and supporting services, balancing delivery speed, reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Support delivery from discovery to production, helping the team break down uncertainty, manage risks and learn from released solutions.
• Coordinate work with partner engineering teams, agreeing responsibilities, integration boundaries and dependencies.
• Build sustainable engineering practices, including testing, observability, operational ownership and incident learning.
• Evaluate progress through customer outcomes and engineering health, rather than treating the number of shipped features as the only measure of success.

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching, feedback, recruitment and performance management.
• Bring a strong software engineering background and can help engineers reason through architecture, system design and technical trade-offs.
• Have a product-oriented mindset and want to understand the customer problem before committing to a solution.
• Can lead work spanning user-facing applications and backend services, collaborating with specialists without needing to be the expert in every technology.
• Are comfortable working with uncertainty, helping a team move from an open question to a testable approach and an achievable delivery plan.
• Use data, customer feedback and experiments to challenge assumptions and assess whether solutions work.
• Collaborate effectively across teams, making dependencies and constraints explicit and building shared ownership of outcomes.
• Are fluent in Polish and have a good command of English.

What's in it for you:

• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).
• Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.
• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).
• A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.
• 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.
• A training budget, inter-team tourism (see more here), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings.
• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal.
• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

And that's just the beginning! You can read more about the benefits here .

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.
• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.
• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job.
• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).
• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.
• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning.
• You will become part of Allegro Tech - we speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about!