We are Heureka Group, the largest e-commerce platform operating in nine markets of Central and Eastern Europe. More than 20 million users come to us for advice every month, and we are among the top comparators and shopping advisors in all the countries where we operate.

What you will do

You will build and lead a small development team of 3 engineers - helping them grow and develop themselves. You will cooperate with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, SEO, and Marketing specialists daily. The team works hybrid - 3 days in the office.

As the name suggests, the Traffic Acquisition team is responsible for Traffic Acquisition. Their main mission is pretty obvious then - to increase Heureka's most important channel - traffic. This can be done either through paid traffic or by improving SEO strategy. Traffic is king!

Your time as a team lead will be divided into three areas

  • Leadership & People management 
  • Engineering
  • Product

The expected ratio among L/E/P is approximately 20/70/10 and it might change over time as the team grows. Engineering (coding, tech. discovery, setting right engineering processes) will take the most of your time. Thus we are looking for a Leader with a strong passion for Engineering.

Leadership activities include, for example

  • Leading an empowered team of 2-3 Engineers. You will be helping them grow and develop themselves. Our Career Journey framework will guide your way in this area.
  • You will be part of the so-called Team Lead Circle
  • Closely cooperating with Tech Heads, Team Leads, Tech Leads and Product Managers of other teams.
  • Together with the Product Manager, Scrum-Master and other Stakeholders, you will be coming up with the Team Goals and taking responsibility for the delivery.
  • You will be responsible for the hiring process of your team.
  • You are the team budget owner

Tech stack is

  • Python
  • We have some microservices in Golang, but it doesn't matter if you don't know about it. We can teach you on that
  • NoSQL database (such as MongoDB or Redis)
  • GIT
  • Knowledge of tools like: GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes and Grafana will help you
  • We run most of the microservices in GCP

What you can expect from us

  • Full support of your leader including individual sessions
  • Buddy for trial period
  • Responsibility for your Team budget
  • Improvement days - 10% of your time for personal development
  • Possibility to choose a mentor

What’s it like to be a Heurecian in R&D

  • Be part of a distributed engineering teams
  • Meet with Microservice/ Micro Frontend architecture, GCP, Asynchronous communication
  • Write tests - E2E, unit tests
  • Contribute to DevOps/FinOps culture
  • Participate in building sustainable product
  • Working mostly on Greenfield projects
  • We are practically agile, typically using some version of Scrum (two weeks sprints, standups, planning, retrospective, groomings or Kanban and also OKR framework

And why you would love to be a Heurecian

  • Opportunity to participate in the development of a product that is currently used by three million unique users per month in two countries. There will be unique technical challenges that you just can't get anywhere else. Opportunity to be part of One Platform vision
  • Great company culture and open mindset
  • Daily feedback
  • Opportunity to learn a lot from the huge shared know-how we have in Heureka
  • Support you in improving your skills

Heureka Group a.s.