Machine Learning Research Team Leader

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About the project

Your responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Managing a team of 6 engineers
• Technical Delivery: Overseeing requirements engineering, code reviews, automated testing, and robust monitoring (SLA/SLO) for real-time advertising systems.
• Data & ML Strategy: Taking ownership of the evolution of attribution logic and data processing efficiency.
• Operational Excellence: Maintaining high SLA and low latency for online pipelines processing massive volumes of ad-related data (clicks/views) in real-time.
• Stakeholder Management: Translating complex business needs into actionable technical backlogs and managing executive expectations.
• Strategic Ownership: Managing infrastructure costs (GCP) effectively and addressing legacy components within the Ads Data/ML domain.

Our requirements

• Have experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers (MLEs/DEs), fostering their professional growth and high engagement.
• Possess a broad technical background in the full software and ML lifecycle - from system design to deployment and production support.
• Are experienced in efficient ETL/ELT pipeline design and ensuring data integrity and high availability.
• Have a passion for bridging Data Engineering workflows with ML requirements, specifically regarding Feature Store integration and model serving infrastructure.
• Can act as a key partner for Product Management, aligning technical roadmaps with business priorities.
• Are skilled in managing technical debt while balancing the delivery of new features in high-scale environments.
• Know English at B2 level or higher.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.
• Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).
• Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.
• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).
• A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.
• 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.
• A training budget, inter-team tourism, hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings.
• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal.
• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

Benefits

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.
• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things.
• You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.
• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier.
• We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job.
• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).
• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.
• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning.
• You will become part of Allegro Tech - We speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting.
• We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about!