The future looks like you
At C&A we’re embracing the digital transformation taking place across the retail sector, whilst ensuring we don’t lose sight of our heritage.
“Let’s build the future together - the best is yet to come”
Our Digital & Consumer domain is one of eight tech domains within C&A and shaped around 150 IT- and Design-peers. We are developing creative and innovative in-house digital solutions for our three customer-centric platforms: our iOS and Android applications, as well as the C&A web shop.The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing and leading high-performing teams, has a strong technical background, and the ability to deliver innovative solutions.
Your responsibilities
- Leading, coaching, and developing one or more cross-functional engineering teams to drive goals and objectives
- Establishing and maintaining a positive and productive work environment that fosters teamwork, creativity, and collaboration
- Fostering engineering excellence within your team(s) and identifying training opportunities and career development strategies
- Building engineering capabilities within the team to ensure engineering best practices
- Pairing with the Digital Product Manager and Product Designer on the steering of the team’s roadmap
- Managing Engineers, as well as hiring and retaining talents
- Staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and evaluating their potential impact on the company's products and services
What you bring
- Relevant experience as Engineering Manager or with a similar technical leadership role (minimum five years for a Senior role)
- Leading with humility, and empathy as well as experience with mentorship and the ability to effectively delegate
- Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear, and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Ability to split large features into smaller deliverables to deliver value as early as possible
- Strong technical and functional analysis also in Capacity Management
- Great passion for technology and software development
Nice to have:
- Experience in designing and implementing microservices in a large ecosystem(Spring Boot)
- Experience with our technological stack (Elm, React, SCSS)
- Experience with message brokers and DBs (RabbitMQ, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
What we offer
This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you’ll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision. As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe’s most recognizable retail brands, you will also enjoy:
- Countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy
- A flexible hybrid work environment
- An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores
- An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment
- A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture
C&A fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board that is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization where everyone can become their best self.
We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply.
Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply and help us build an inclusive community.
C&A fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board that is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization where everyone can become their best self.
We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply.
Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply and help us build an inclusive community.