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Engineering Manager

  • Manage, mentor and lead a growing team of software engineers

  • Help the teams :

    • handle the technical evolutions on the product, coordinating with the product manager and iteratively evolve the roadmap
    • define and decide how to achieve product and technological vision and objectives
    • grow as professionals by pairing whenever needed on projects so they can manage according to their capabilities and grow
    • continuously improve product and processes.
    • Improve development standards
    • find pragmatic solutions, reach the right tradeoffs and reduce complexity to help them deliver and increase leverage for the organization

  • Guide architectural decisions and help refine processes to help the product grow at the right pace and in the right direction

  • Challenge and Ensure code quality, scalability and robustness

  • Work closely with the Product and User Experience Organisation and embrace lean and agile product development practices and data-driven decision making.

  • Work closely with the CTO and CPO to render teams autonomous so as to increase the pace of value delivery

    • CTO focuses on building a technical vision (what product guidelines do we want to follow ? Is the product feasible ? If not how can we make it nonetheless ? etc)
      • scope = tech stack, architectural guidelines, technical vision and strategy
    • Engineering manager focuses on how do we deliver the product ? How do we ensure quality ? How can we always become better ? etc
      • scope = best practices, processes, methodology, team workings, team needs, product organisation
    • Both can come to contribute directly to the sprints if needed, help team members if needed, onboard people if needed, according to what teams request

  • Know when and how to settle a discussion and make the appropriate decision when needed within the teams

  • Proposed starting process (Squad orga)

    • Define + prioritise the big problems to solve (one at a time)
    • Let's work in 2 week sprints
      • Sprint planning right after team's (30 min)
        • List actions to take in the following 2 weeks
      • 3 standups per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 5min)
        • focus on done + blockers + next
      • Demo / Retro (15min + 30min)
        • how do we improve our process


  • Be an active part of and coordinate recruitment of new hires and help retain and engage/empower best talents
  • Support individuals in their career development and personal growth
  • Create a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, lead by example and help people fulfil their potential
  • Focus on learning, applying, and extending best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on providing developer delight and speed of delivery for the teams

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