Senior Domain Engineering Manager - Source and Supply

More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

Job Description

As Senior Domain Engineering Manager reporting directly to the Engineering Director, you lead two critical domains comprising seven product teams within our Source and Supply department. Leveraging your extensive experience in delivering software products and leading high-performing teams across distributed locations (Europe & India), you will partner closely with Engineering Managers to optimize team effectiveness and foster a productive engineering culture aligned with our strategic business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute engineering strategy and roadmap for your domains in close collaboration with Product Management and Architecture leadership.

• Ensure scalability, resilience, maintainability of applications within your domains aligned with company-wide technology standards.

• Own the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) processes within your domains; continuously improve engineering practices including Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps culture.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Directly manage Engineering Managers; mentor them on leadership skills including effective team building, performance management, coaching practices.

• Foster an open culture emphasizing transparency, growth mindset, continuous learning; actively provide constructive feedback.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Take accountability for timely delivery of domain commitments meeting quality standards.

• Manage domain budgets effectively; oversee vendor relationships including contract negotiations and performance assessments.

• Oversee capacity planning to ensure efficient resource allocation across distributed teams.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Foster effective cross-domain communication between internal tech platform providers and product teams.

• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Director to align departmental engineering strategy with overall business objectives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years industry experience in software engineering roles; minimum 3+ years managing multiple engineering teams/managers directly.

• Proven expertise in retail/e-commerce domains preferably such as Inbound Logistics, Inventory Management, Order Management Systems.

• Demonstrated ability managing geographically distributed teams.

• Strong system architecture/design skills with proven record of building robust and cost-effective system architectures.

• Strong track record delivering complex software projects on-time/budget within Agile environments.

• Solid understanding of modern engineering practices: Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps culture adoption.

• Strong stakeholder management skills; proven ability collaborating effectively cross-functionally at senior levels.

• Familiarity or hands-on experience with key technologies/platforms advantageous: AWS Cloud services; Java backend development; React frontend frameworks;

• Nice to have experience: ERP solutions such as SAP; Order Management platforms such as IBM Sterling OMS.

Why Join Us?

This role offers significant strategic impact—shaping critical retail technology domains at scale—and clear opportunities for career progression. You will join a collaborative global team committed to innovation and continuous improvement in a supportive culture emphasizing transparency and professional growth.

Additional Information:

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup: 60% in-office, 40% remote, collaborating with colleagues across locations.

Our benefits

20% discount in our zooplus shop

Internal and external training

Team events

#LI-Hybrid

Two extra vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December

Private medical care and life insurance

Multicafeteria system including Multisport card

Want to know more? Learn more about zooplus here, and check out our LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get a glimpse into the zooplus culture.

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

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