Senior Technical Domain Lead

The role

You will own the technical direction, architecture, and strategic direction for a core domain. You will lead cross-team design discussions and embed AI and agentic practices into the stack and developer workflows.

What you will do

• Own the long-term technical vision, architecture, and strategic direction of your domain.
• Lead cross-team design discussions, architectural reviews, and delivery of major technical initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Engineers, and Product Owners to turn business goals into sound technical strategy.
• Drive high standards for security, scalability, and performance.
• Champion agentic-first development practices to help engineers ship faster.
• Make the engineers around you better through pairing, design reviews, and raising the bar.
• Support multiple engineering teams by unblocking complex issues and setting clear technical standards.
• Provide input into group-wide engineering strategy, technology selection, and platform direction.
• Act as the point of escalation for the most complex technical decisions in your domain.

Required qualifications

• Designed and scaled large, mission-critical systems that serve real users at scale.
• Made architectural decisions that teams are still benefiting from years later.
• Can explain a complex trade-off to senior engineers and leave with alignment.
• Deep expertise in a specific technical domain (e.g., payments, logistics, customer experience, AI/ML).
• Mentored senior engineers and helped them grow.
• Excited about using AI to fundamentally change how engineering teams work.
• Proficiency in Java and React.

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to open-source projects or presenting at technical conferences.
• Familiarity with multiple programming paradigms and technology stacks.
• Exposure to cross-regional or multi-country technology operations.

Benefits

• Strong fixed salary
• Free lunch every day
• Fresh fruit & veggies in the office
• Real flexibility three days in the office, 2 days at the Home Office
• Unlimited paid vacation based on trust
• Peer credits to use in our internal cafeteria
• Free Xtra membership
• 10% cashback on everything you buy on Rohlik.cz
• Company sports challenges
• Subsidised Multisport card

About the company

Rohlik Group is building the future of online grocery, delivering 25,000 SKUs in under three hours across multiple European markets. The company is engineering the shift to agentic-first development.