Quick Summary
Company Description
AUTODOC is Europe's largest and fastest-growing auto parts ecommerce platform. Operating across 27 countries with approximately 5,000 employees, AUTODOC generated over €1.3 billion in revenue in 2023. We serve more than 7.4 million active customers, providing 5.8 million vehicle parts and accessories for car, truck, and motorcycle brands.
Join our team of curious minds, adventurous experts, and tech-savvy professionals as we continue to drive innovation and achieve new milestones.
Job Description
As a Software Engineering Manager at Autodoc, you will join the Corporate IT Software Engineering Organization, dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions and enhancing supply chain systems. This role involves leading a team responsible for the development, deployment, monitoring, and operation of critical warehouse services.
You will guide the evolution of Autodoc’s platform towards a scalable microservice architecture, ensuring high reliability, strong performance, and improved business efficiency. This position combines technical leadership with people management, focusing on mentoring engineers, promoting engineering best practices, and ensuring the successful delivery of backend services within the warehouse environment. You will also champion modern engineering practices and AI-powered development tools to accelerate delivery, boost productivity, and maintain high-quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement. Support career growth and skill development within the team.
- Technical Leadership & Architecture: Guide the design and evolution of scalable backend systems and microservices that support warehouse operations.
- Delivery & Execution: Ensure timely and reliable software delivery by coordinating development activities and managing priorities using agile and project planning methodologies.
- Platform Modernization: Drive the migration of existing platforms to a modern microservices architecture, leveraging technologies such as PHP, Node.js, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Engineering Excellence: Promote and implement best practices including test-driven development (TDD), automated testing, code reviews, and SOLID-based software design principles.
- Operational Reliability: Maintain service stability through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes, utilizing tools like New Relic and Grafana.
- Developer Productivity & AI Adoption: Advocate for and implement AI-powered development tools to enhance code quality, efficiency, and overall development workflows.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 2+ years of experience leading and mentoring engineers in a technical team environment.
- Proven experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and foster professional development.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, essential for guiding teams and working cross-functionally.
- Ability to engage in negotiations, manage stakeholder expectations, and consistently deliver on commitments.
- Highly motivated and detail-oriented individual.
- Strong knowledge of the PHP ecosystem, Node.js, JavaScript, and backend development practices.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, including managing large data volumes.
- Proven technical leadership skills, capable of breaking down functional requirements into clear technical specifications.
- Experience with message queues, specifically RabbitMQ.
- Experience working with cloud environments and containerized architectures (Google Cloud Platform, Docker).
- Solid understanding of architecture and design principles, including SOLID, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and service-oriented design.
- Knowledge of API design and integration (REST, SOAP).
- Experience implementing quality assurance practices such as automated testing and test-driven development.
- Experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g., coding assistants, AI-based debugging, or documentation tools) to improve engineering productivity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- English proficiency: Intermediate (B1) or higher.
Will be as a plus:
- Experience with PHP 7+ and frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or FuelPHP.
- Experience working in high-scale e-commerce or logistics environments.
Additional Information
What do we offer?
- Competitive salaries based on your professional experience.
- Opportunity to work in a fast-growing international company with stable employment.
- Annual vacation of 25 working days, plus an additional day off on your birthday.
- Day off on Municipality day and Carnaval.
- Meal Allowance (8 euros per working day).
- Fidelidade Healthcare Plan: Comprehensive health coverage with the option to include your partner and children at discounted rates.
- Mental Wellbeing Program through the OpenUp platform.
- AUTODOC corporate discount for purchasing car parts at special rates for personal use.
- Exclusive retail discounts via our ‘Benefits at Work’ portal.
- Learning & Development: Access to over 650 courses on soft and hard skills on our e-learning platform.
- Free English and German language classes (after probation period).
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
Join us today and let’s create a success story together!