With over 25 years’ experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we’re trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that’s something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That’s the power of plus.
Job Description
As an Engineering Manager, you work with the Product Team (around 6 Software Engineers and a Product Owner). Product Teams are grouped in a business domain called Customer Lifecycle & Engagement. Building on your experience in delivering software products and leading people, you coach your team on how to improve effectiveness. You also support individuals in defining their personal development strategy and help them execute it.
Main responsibilities
- Take ownership of the successful delivery of the Product Team’s commitments by setting clear goals and expectations.
- Maintain a high standard of technical excellence by promoting best practices and staying aligned with industry trends.
- Create an inspiring environment with open communication and strong collaboration across the whole zooplus organization.
- Ensure teams are aligned with zooplus business and technology strategy, operating model, and engineering guidelines.
- Contribute to the development of strategic guidelines, as well as organizational and technical frameworks and processes.
- Act as an agile driver and coach for the software delivery process.
- Grow and develop motivated and qualified team members to meet business and technology expectations.
- Actively participate in recruitment and retention to ensure a strong and balanced Product Team.
- Collaborate with the Domain Engineering Manager to define product technology strategy and optimize costs.
- Partner closely with the Product Owner to maximize the value delivered through technology.
- Contribute hands-on to the products owned by the team when needed.
Qualifications
- At least 8 years of experience in Software Development.
- Strong software engineering and system design fundamentals with hands-on experience.
- Proven experience in people management and leading engineering teams.
- Strong expertise in agile methodologies and practices.
- Experience working in internationally distributed teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java/Kotlin as primary languages, with Python as an important secondary language.
- Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Knowledge of synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns.
- Experience with designing systems for processing large volumes of data.
- Experience with application monitoring and observability.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
- Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle).
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases.
Additional Information
Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.
Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.
At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.
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zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
