Manager, Engineering

Allegro is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Vento product team, which manages the lifecycle of clickstream event contracts. Vento provides a centralized framework for defining, validating, monitoring, routing, and consuming event data, supporting Allegro's data and AI ecosystem. The role is based in Warsaw or Poznan and involves working within Allegro Tech, a team known for its scale and technological ecosystem including microservices, open-source data bus, service mesh, and machine learning.

• Proven experience as an engineering leader with technical background enabling guidance on architectural decisions.
• Broad technical understanding across data ecosystems including Big Data (Python, Scala, Spark), Backend (Java/Kotlin), and Frontend environments.
• Fluency in Polish and English (minimum B2 level).
• Proactive communication of insights, bottlenecks, and risks.
• Willingness to participate in rotating on-call support for system reliability.

People leadership & development:

• Coaching, mentoring, and supporting a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of 5-6 engineers.

Architectural & business alignment:

• Maintaining a holistic view of the platform architecture.
• Ensuring engineering solutions support broader business context and platform goals through shared ownership.

Technical mentorship:

• Guiding and enabling the team to effectively integrate and leverage AI-assisted coding and AI-based user support tools.

Stakeholder partnership:

• Collaborating closely with cross-functional business partners (Marketing, Loyalty, Sales) and technical stakeholders, including Data Assets teams and the Data Platform Product Manager.

Product vision & strategy:

• Co-creating the vision for the Vento product alongside the team, users, and stakeholders.
• Implementing modern product management guidelines to maximize collective value across the company.

System sustainability:

• Supporting and sharing the team's on-call rotation framework to ensure long-term stability and reliability of the event processing pipeline.