Team Leader - Data&AI

Job Description

A hybrid work model that incorporates solutions developed by the leader and the team.

As part of the Data & AI area, we implement projects based on the practical "data science" and "artificial intelligence" applications of an unprecedented scale in Poland. Data & AI is a group of over 100 experienced BigData engineers organized into over a dozen teams with various specializations. Some of them build dedicated tools for creating and launching BigData processes or implementing ML models for the entire organization. Others work closer to the client and are responsible for the implementation of the search engine, creating recommendations, building a buyer profile or developing an experimental platform. There are also research teams in the area whose aim is to find solutions to non-trivial problems requiring the use of machine learning.

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience in managing a technical team, able to set and implement goals
• Have very good communication skills and like working with people
• Have experience (at least 5 years) in the area of working with technology
• Know good engineering practices in terms of code quality management, CICD pipeline, GitHub versioning
• Are experienced in the field of system architecture, data processing, software development
• Know English at the level of min. B2

What we offer:

• A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
• Annual bonus up to 20% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results)
• 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
• Laptop with m1 processor, 32GB RAM, SSD - a 16” or 14” MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs), two monitors and all other gadgets that you should need
• Working in a team 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 team’s 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

In your daily work you will handle the following tasks:

• Giving direction in the development of a product consisting of an administration and management panel (Angular + Java/Kotlin), an event processing process (Scala + Spark) and a data quality module (Python + Spark)
• Managing a team of 6 experienced engineers who build this product from the beginning: providing professional development, technical mentoring and career management
• Deciding on priorities for action, analyzing business value and risks
• Responsibility for maintaining and supporting the product according to the agreed SLA and QoS
• Leading the process of technology selection and architecture decisions together with the team
• Active role in creating and implementing the tool at Allegro Group (six markets)

Why is it worth working with us?

• We are working on an innovative product with high decision-making autonomy regarding the technology stack, in the Google Cloud ecosystem
  We offer the possibility of technical development while managing the team and managerial development
  Possibility of horizontal cooperation with the Data & AI organization as well as the possibility of working with business units
• The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as Devoxx, Geecon, Confitura and co-create a blog: allegro.tech
• We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team
• 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 be of interest to you: 

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

Booklet → https://allegro.tech/booklet.pdf

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