Job Title

Python Engineering Manager

Job Description

• Shaping: As a Tech Lead in one of our domains, you’ll work with stakeholders from tech and business to translate requirements into scalable and resilient solutions.
• Leadership: You help the team plan, prioritize, and make the right trade-offs. Ensuring business goals are achieved while also realizing your long-term technical vision.
• Expertise: You provide in-depth tech expertise for your product and act as a point of contact for other teams wishing to use and cooperate with your product.
• Collaboration: You are able to communicate your views both when specifying new features with stakeholders and while providing technical mentorship to your colleagues.
• Mentorship: You build and evaluate team members through regular development conversations, personalized coaching, and mentorship to foster growth and achieve career goals.
• Ownership: You build it - you run it - you love it: you will be responsible for managing a sustainable support model for your product.
• Our Tech: Python 3.10/3.11/3.12, SimPy, many Python libraries across various domains, RabbitMQ, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, TeamCity, Microservices

Restrictions

• No telecommuting
• No Agencies Please

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• You have at least 7 years of experience and a profound understanding of back-end development including Python.
• You have at least 2 years of experience in leading projects and/or teams.
• You have solid problem-solving skills and enjoy complex challenges.
• You have great English skills (no Dutch required) and are able to structure your thoughts and express them clearly verbally and in writing.
• Bonus points: Prior experience in simulation-related topics

About the Company

When you join Picnic, you’re joining the shopping revolution, delivering groceries to millions of people across Europe, and we’re growing fast. Think super fresh products and personal service, but in a modern, sustainable way. The tech team at Picnic is at the core of Picnic. From deep learning models to forecast orders to delivery algorithms to warehouse logistics: we’ve built it all from the ground up. You’ll thrive here if you’re a problem solver with a pro-active mindset who’s not afraid to be challenged daily.

Picnic operates more than 40 product tech teams that each provide an integral part of our customers' experience - from the point they start the app until the moment they hold their groceries in their hands.

As Tech Lead, you will be leading our Python Warehouse Simulation team to empower them to build simulations of some of the biggest automated warehouses in Europe, as well as models of new warehousing and automation concepts that will enable us to expand as never before. Together with the Product Owner, you will evaluate initiatives and drive roadmap discussions. You will be responsible for the delivery of projects and for developing the skills and strengths of the people working in your team. As a Tech Lead, you’ll lead by example, not by title.

Contact Info

• Contact: Frankie
• E-mail contact: francesca.prina@teampicnic.com
• Web: https://grnh.se/gehim4lu1us