Allegro is hiring a

Principal Software Engineer - Consumer Experience

Warsaw, Poland
Full-Time

Important things for you:

  • Contract of employment, tax-deductible cost

  • 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

  • A hybrid work model requires 3 days a week in the Warsaw office 

 

In your daily work you will handle the following tasks:

  • Autonomously initiate company-wide efforts and lead cross-domain projects in the Marketing and Advertising areas.

  • Support key technological decisions for the Marketing Area, co-determining the direction of its development.

  • Spot and exploit synergies between technical solutions used by teams inside the Marketing Area and within other areas.

  • Building technology partnerships with vendors and integrating externally built projects into the Allegro technology ecosystem.

  • Mentor for engineering teams, support and develop technical talents, foster a high-performance engineering culture and knowledge sharing.

  • Raise technological standards, code quality, and best practices across both the Marketing Area and the entire Allegro platform.

  • Be an advocate for the best development practices such as clean code, automation, reusability, modularity, design patterns and TDD.

We are looking for people who:

  • Excellent problem-solving mindset, with the ability to handle complex challenges effectively.

  • The ability to take a broad view of a problem while being able to focus on its key issues.

  • Expertise in designing and developing microservice architectures involving multiple teams and domains.

  • Experience with designing scalable cloud applications and distributed systems including high-volume & high-availability projects.

  • Have a knowledge of GCP or other public cloud environments like Azure or AWS.

  • Excellent communication skills. Ability to explain complex technical issues to non-tech stakeholders.

  • At least 10 years of professional experience in software development using JVM technologies.

  • Experience in internet marketing (ads, performance marketing) is a plus.

What we offer

  • We have 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 with teams 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 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

  • We use, among others, Java 17, Kotlin, Coroutines, Scala, Spring, Reactive Programming, Spark, Dataproc, Microservices architecture supporting high request rates on our business data bus. Utilizing extensive Big Data resources on GCP and incorporating Machine Learning into our operational workflows.

  • The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as DevDays or Devoxx, and co-create a blog: allegro.tech

  • Microservices – a few thousand microservices and 1.8m+ rps on our business data bus

  • Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production

  • We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team

  • Our internal ecosystem is based on self-service and widely used tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub or GitHub Actions. This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination. 

  • To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams

  • Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create

  • Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)

  • Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github

  • We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit

  • We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you

 

This may also interest you

 

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

 

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