Company Description
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of e Commerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

Job Description
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join a team in our Pricing and Promotions domain, within the Engineering & Operation organization, to support the Team and enable people growth.
As an Engineering Manager, reporting to Domain Engineering Manager, you are committed to driving efficient product delivery on time & within budget, and guiding the professional growth of your team members, while actively contributing to shaping a robust technical direction for our products. Your goal is to foster excellence, support career development, ensure processes are followed and contribute to the overall success of our organization.
You are working closely with the Product Owner and Domain Architect, and you own vital aspects of your team’s member success.
In close collaboration with other teams, this team defines, implements, deploys, and operates software products to deliver market intelligence information to internal stakeholders, so that we can use this to provide optimally-priced products in our shops to more than 9 million customers!
As our Software Engineering Manager, you embrace the following responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Strategy: Contributing to defining the product vision and strategy, considering people, process, product, and capacity aspects.
  

• Product Delivery: Being accountable for the deliverables of the product teams, adhering to timelines and commitments made, ensuring scalability and resilience of existing applications and contributing to the overall company goals and strategy. You take ownership of ensuring the successful delivery of our Product Team's commitments, by setting clear goals and expectations.
  

• Capacity Planning: Ensuring the team has the necessary resources and skills by evaluating workload and identifying potential bottlenecks for successful project delivery. You actively participate in the recruitment and retention process, ensuring a healthy composition of the Product Team.
  

• Technical excellence: Being an enabler, your responsibility is to empower the team, unlocking their potential and facilitating their progress towards set goals, while proactively identifying and removing any technical impediments or obstacles that hinder their productivity. You have a strong commitment to maintaining a high standard of technical excellence by emphasizing best practices and industry trends.
  
• People Growth: Taking responsibility for the growth of the team members to meet business & tech expectations by managing performance and providing coaching on the job as well for individual development. Fostering excellence and supporting career development is one of your crucial goals.
  
• Process Management: Creating a productive, agile environment, aligning with other Teams, and ensuring company policies and product/tech processes are well-coordinated. Emphasizing the value of continuous improvement by promoting architectural best practices and nurturing individual growth. You support your team as an agile driver & coach of the software delivery process and ensure that your team are in line with zooplus's business and technology strategy, operating models, and guidelines.
  
• Budget Management: Monitoring and optimizing budget costs related to product expenses, such as AWS, licenses, externals, training budget, and personnel costs.
  
• Contributing to our codebase: Time permitting, you’d be expected to contribute to the codebase and review team’s code.
  

Joining zooplus, you leverage and contribute to our Agile and Dev Ops culture, and these are a few aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to a positive and fulfilling experience:

• We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting, and valuing everyone’s opinion.
  

• We learn from each other and share knowledge, through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.
  

• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products and improving all the infrastructure we need. We also would like to have a colleague who likes to be cross-functional.
  

• We are committed to delivering high-quality products and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a Dev Ops mindset are crucial to achieving this goal.
  

• Our teams value a friendly and collaborative environment, and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame; we work together to build and maintain the systems.
  

• We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.
  

Qualifications

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  Strong software engineering & design fundamentals with extensive former hands-on design & development experience (8+ years within software development practices out of which at least 3+ years as a technical and/or team leader)
  

• Strong communication, people management and team leadership skills
  

• An extensive and recent contribution to process, Agile and Lean fundamentals
  

• Experience in e-commerce business
  

• Extensive experience and exposure to software tooling and practices (wiki and ticketing - ideally Atlassian, ci/cd, release cycle, automation, monitoring, support, and operation)
  

• Knowledge of Node.js, Type Script, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3, and Postgre SQL
  

• Practical experience in backend development
  

• Knowledge and experience on JVM-based languages is a bonus
  

Additional Information
For this position, an annual gross salary from 70,000 - 80,000 EURO is envisaged for employment in Austria (38.5 hours/week); In addition, we may offer an overpayment in line with the market depending on qualifications and experience.

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely.
Our benefits:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
#LI-Hybrid✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
Free public transport ticket for Vienna
️ Various supported sport and fitness activities
Want to know more? Learn more about zooplus here, and check out our Linked In, Instagram, Tik Tok and You Tube to get a glimpse into the zooplus culture.
zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.