Head of Engineering Market Insights

What awaits you

With your positive personality, you will not only shape an engineering culture and organization but also actively shape the e-commerce of tomorrow. You will lead different dedicated, cross-functional product teams and, together with them, be responsible for scalable solutions with real impact for our customers and central processes in the company.

• You can expect a lot of creative freedom and the chance to help shape an engineering organization sustainably, from ways of working to technology and architecture decisions to the further development of teams and leaders
• You coach, develop, and empower the Team Leads of your area with humanity, clarity, and tact, so that they lead effective teams independently and specifically develop roles, responsibility, and decision-making spaces
• Together with the Head of Product, you shape product-oriented and agile development processes, maintain focus on business goals, and establish a data-informed way of working
• You work agilely with short iterations and in appropriate forms of Scrum or Kanban
• Yes, we also have enough legacy. That is exactly part of the exciting challenge. Together with the Domain Architect, you navigate confidently through technical trade-offs, make pragmatic decisions, actively shape the future with a lot of implementation capability, and keep the can-do spirit alive in the team
• You are part of the technology leadership team and, together with your peers, shape the strategic direction and technical vision of the entire engineering organization

What you bring with you

You strongly identify with a culture in which

• AI is utilized to the maximum
• Servant leadership, benevolent feedback, and the targeted development of people and organization go together
• Product works closely with Engineering, wants to understand problems in depth, lives true agility, relies on MVPs, short iterations, and fast learning, and makes decisions consistently from a user and business perspective
• Technical full-stack thinking, pair programming, whiteboard sessions, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD with several productive releases per day are normal. Teams take on real end-to-end responsibility in the sense of -You build it, you own it-

We fit well together if you

• are a pioneer in AI Engineering, strongly drive the organization towards more efficiency in AI Engineering, and at the same time ensure that we do not produce AI slop - whether through automated AI reviews in the pipeline, adapted agile processes, or better tooling
• bring experience in domains such as purchasing, product data, pricing, logistics, or ERP or are generally well-versed in the environment of business applications and e-commerce
• not only know the described culture but live it, coach it, and anchor it in the organization and contribute to a strong team culture with appreciative communication, warmth, and a good dose of humor
• are a great coach and role model for the Team Leads and organization
• approach complex topics with perseverance and resilience and are perceived as a motivating lighthouse even in demanding situations
• understand concepts such as DDD, Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Architecture, SOLID, Feature Flags, or Dependency Injection as tools that you establish in a structured manner in the organization. At the same time, you have a solid understanding of distributed systems and DevOps practices
• lead based on data: deployment frequency, lead time, and incident recovery are signals for you, not goals. You understand OKRs as a tool to exert targeted influence
• bring at least 10 years of experience in modern software development, of which at least 2 years in a leadership role
• speak German and English

We probably do not fit so well together if you

• prefer frameworks like SAFe or think in classic project structures and requirement specifications
• have worked predominantly in highly regulated environments and bring little experience in fast, product-oriented organizations with large distributed systems
• feel more comfortable in role models in which infrastructure, backend, frontend, testing, and product thinking are strictly separated from each other
• do not have an infinite hunger for knowledge to constantly learn new things
• are more frustrated than motivated by imperfect systems - spoiler: we are not there yet
• strictly separate work and good mood

Benefits

• Discounts: Attractive discounts in the Brack online shop as well as lunch discounts and staff restaurants in Mägenwil and Willisau.
• Recovery: At least 5 weeks of vacation, additionally there is the possibility to purchase vacation and unpaid leave.
• Development: Internal training in our own Academy as well as financial participation in external further education.
• Family: 18 weeks of paid maternity leave with the possibility of extension and 4 weeks of paid paternity leave.
• Insurance: Extra-mandatory - 100% continued payment of wages as well as full financing of the daily sickness insurance by the employer.
• Mobility: Free parking spaces, financial participation in public transport, and pool vehicles for business appointments.

Are you interested or do you have further questions?

Sercan Ugur is available to help you with questions.

About us

"Together we shape the commerce of tomorrow" Brack.Alltron employs around 1300 employees and generates over a billion in turnover. The company exists because one person had the courage to find new ways and walk them. Our success story shows that through every individual, something big is created together and we love our uniqueness. We set ambitious goals, and it is very important to us that we act responsibly, encourage and challenge each other and have joy