Jobs at idealo internet GmbH

Own the strategy and roadmap for idealo’s central AI platform. Prioritize and deliver reusable AI services and APIs involving LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, evaluation, and agentic AI. Define KPIs, improve developer experience, and partner with engineering, security, and stakeholders to ensure reliability, governance, data protection, and cost efficiency.

Leads a 50-person Catalogue engineering organization across seven teams through Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders. Owns delivery, quality, architecture, performance, predictability, automation, and technical strategy. Partners with Product and senior stakeholders to translate business priorities into roadmaps, manage dependencies, and improve engineering outcomes. Drives organizational transformation, AI-enabled engineering, cloud-native practices, and distributed-systems strategy while developing high-performing engineering leadership.

Develop and evolve idealo’s native iOS e-commerce applications using Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI. Collaborate with product owners, UX designers, analysts, Android engineers, and backend teams to deliver and operate products at scale. Contribute throughout the product lifecycle, make pragmatic technical decisions, improve user interfaces, and produce readable, reliable, maintainable, and testable code in an autonomous agile team.

Acquire Italian online retailers, manage the full B2B sales cycle, generate and qualify leads, negotiate commercial agreements, and maintain Salesforce pipeline forecasts. The role requires understanding the Italian e-commerce market, consultative selling, independent pipeline development, and collaboration with onboarding, account management, and marketing teams. The Sales Manager will also represent idealo at relevant Italian e-commerce meetings, conferences, and events.

Owns the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of business-critical systems connecting clickouts, merchant billing, and revenue processes. Designs AWS applications and integrations with Odoo, Salesforce, SAP, and internal systems; manages infrastructure, testing, security, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities. Provides technical direction, drives engineering improvements, translates business needs into scalable solutions, and collaborates with Accounting, Sales, Account Management, and engineering teams.

Lead design and development of cloud-native, event-driven CRM systems. Build reliable data flows, microservices and integrations using AWS, Kafka, Braze and Snowflake. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, improve CI/CD, observability and security, and align technical solutions with business CRM goals.

Lead and coach 3–5 Product Leads/Product Managers for idealo's B2C customer-facing experiences. Own group roadmap and delivery, stay hands-on in parts of the portfolio, resolve cross-product prioritization conflicts, and align product and engineering partners to deliver coherent user experiences.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems and data flows for CRM and user engagement. Collaborate across teams to deliver integrated solutions, own services through their lifecycle, ensure testing/CI/CD and cloud best practices, mentor engineers, and improve monitoring and operational excellence.

Design, build and operate scalable ML infrastructure and pipelines on AWS to deploy, monitor and retrain models for personalization, recommendations, search and ranking. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product teams to ensure availability, observability and continuous improvement of production ML systems.

Own the roadmap for catalog content (images, specs, texts, test reports, FAQs). Build and evolve the CMS and AI content pipeline, prioritize human vs. automated content, validate opportunities through experimentation and analytics, and ensure content drives SEO and localized experiences across international markets.