VP Engineering

Job Description

We’re looking for our VP Engineering whose main missions will be to :

A bit of context:

• Current teams: Tech (Engineering, Architecture, SRE, QA, IT & Security), Product (PM, Design, Data)

• Current Engineering team: ~40 people (backend, fullstack, frontend, EM)

• Current Tech & Product team: ~80 people (6 stream-aligned squads)

Our stack:

• Backend: Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/RoR (historic), RabbitMq, PostgreSQL, Redis

• Frontend: React JS (check welcome-ui, our beloved design system)

• Infrastructure: AWS (w/ K8S)

• Tools from the day-to-day: Github, Circle CI, Sentry, Datadog, Jira, Notion, Slack, Zoom

• You may find more information on our Tech Blog, on our Twitter account or, of course, on our beloved company profile

Reporting to the CTO, your main missions will include:

• Structure the engineering organisation and processes that enables global best performance

• Develop standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent

• Management of the whole engineering team (at first, your direct reports will include engineering managers and principal engineers)

• Empower engineering managers and upcoming directors by supporting them to reach their full potential as managers, and make sure they help engineers learning and growing in their job

• Anticipate technical risks in the short, medium and long term. Identify the tech debts that could block the business & set up action plan to avoid such scenarios.

• Work closely with the CTO, Tech & Product leadership to create and maintain overall technology roadmap & long term plan

• Create and develop teams with clear technical vision and leadership for existing and future products

• Continuously monitor new technologies and evaluate their potential use with engineering leaders and architectes

• Hiring! Work with our recruitment team to build an amazing hiring process, attract, hire and retain the best engineers

• Participate to spread our engineering culture within & outside the company and help improving our tech employer branding

Preferred experience

• You have a proven experience in managing a large engineering team (50+ engineers) through middle managers, both onsite and remotely (internal or external)

• You have a strong interest in working in an environment where managers support their teams to do great work, through removing impediments, finding improvements, and facilitating effective decision making

• You demonstrate effective communication skills: assertive and straightforward. Both in french and English.

• You have a proven ability to influence teams across an organization to achieve a common objective.

• You have successfully delivered products and services that scaled over time

• You handle projects ambiguity, complexity and interdependencies in an organized, prioritized and structured way

• You can easily strike a balance between quality, speed, and vision

• You have a strong experience working with agile development teams