Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.

We're all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You'll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.

Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on full-stack Staff Engineer with a strong bias toward action and a drive to create intuitive, user-friendly experiences.

In the Akeneo organisation, each Product Line operates independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO) at VP level. Within each Product Line, multiple Area Single Threaded Owners (Area-STOs) at Director level oversee several Impact Teams. Each Impact Team, led by an Impact Owner, comprises approximately eight engineers, designers and PMs who work autonomously, following their own processes and methodologies.

Akeneo’s products are recognised worldwide for their ease of use by customers, partners, and market analysts. As we scale and enter a new strategic phase in an increasingly competitive market, delivering a seamless, intuitive user experience is more critical than ever. That’s why we’re forming a brand-new team dedicated to simplify the end-to-end experience across our products, and at every stage of the user lifecycle—from discovery to onboarding, adoption to expansion. We want Akeneo to be the most intuitive and indispensable platform for bringing products to life. And we need your help to make it happen.

As a foundational member of this team, you will play a key role in shaping its direction, driving technical excellence, and delivering real value to our users—one impactful step at a time. You will be expected to own, drive and contribute code to projects to ensure their successful impact within a given appetite.

In this role, you will create solutions to complex problems, optimise existing systems and ensure seamless integration across various technologies and platforms. Your leadership and expertise will be instrumental in driving the success of our engineering initiatives and team.Reporting directly to the Single Threaded Owner (STO), who is extremely passionate about delivering this impact, you will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product managers, designers and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities: 

• Technical leadership: Drive technical excellence within the wider engineering team by setting and maintaining best practices and standards, with a focus on front-end engineering (e.g. leading a front-end engineering guild across product lines)
• Technical ownership: Own the team’s ship vehicles such as the Design System and the Free Trial. Ensure solutions scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness and accessibility.
• Problem solving: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and across product lines to understand the users jobs to be done (JTBD), identify and solve challenging technical and UX problems (eg. moving away from product legacy, and contributing to front/back-end decoupling).
• Unified team: Foster a unified team environment by promoting deep customer-centricity, technical collaboration and open communication (e.g. working with teams to workshop options and think creatively about solving problems).
• Mentorship: Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. (e.g. deep-dive retrospectives on staff projects).
• Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our technology stack (e.g. evaluating and prototyping build/buy/partner options).
• Potential for Team Management: As opportunities arise, take on team management responsibilities, such as stepping into an Impact Owner role.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience: You have 8+ years of experience in hands-on full-stack software development and a strong background in building high-quality SaaS experiences that scale. Preferably React, PHP, Go, Python and Typescript.
• Proven track record: You have a history of delivering impact end-to-end as well as taking ownership to turn around projects.
• Technical expertise: You possess in-depth knowledge of software architecture principles and have successfully designed and implemented complex systems that scale, and have experience decoupling large codebases. You have a solid grasp of modern front-end technologies and frameworks and how they integrate with scalable back-end systems.
• Leadership: You have demonstrated leadership in previous roles, guiding teams through technical challenges over time and delivering impact directly as well as indirectly.
• Communication & collaboration: Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, fostering cross-functional alignment and promoting a unified, customer-centric approach to product development.
• Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements with ease.
• Team Leadership Experience: Previous experience leading an engineering team, particularly in environments where technical leadership and direct impact go hand in hand. (e.g. driving team execution, or acting as a technical lead with management responsibilities).

Life at Akeneo

Work Environment

- Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours, and a hybrid setup allowing 3-4 days working from home and option to Work from Anywhere for up to 30 days per year.

• UK: Enjoy 25 days of annual leave.
• France: Enjoy 34 days of annual leave and RTTs.

- Home Office & Commuting Allowance/Benefits:

• UK: Enjoy a £450 budget to enhance your home office and an £80 monthly sustainable transportation allowance for eco-friendly commuting.
• France: Enjoy a €500 budget to enhance your home office. 50% discount on the public transportation pass of your choice or a €45/month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting.

- Meal vouchers (France only): Get your 50% employer-funded Swile card and benefit from €9,5 worth of meal vouchers per working day.

Inclusivity

- Generous Parental Leave:

• UK: Benefit from 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, 4 weeks of paid leave for the second parent, and up to 20 weeks of fully paid shared parental leave. A gradual return to work program is also available.
• France: Benefit from 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, 4 weeks of paid leave for the second parent.

- Community & Support: Engage in 2 paid volunteering days annually and join Employee Resource Groups dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion within the company.

Growth and Development

- Professional Development: Access a £1,000/€1,000 annual budget for personal professional development and take advantage of career paths, internal mobility opportunities, and a "Women in Leadership Programme."
- Comprehensive Onboarding: Start on the right foot with an 8-week onboarding program.

Wellbeing

- Health & Insurance: Receive company-paid private medical insurance for you and eligible dependents.
- Financial Security:

• UK: Benefit from a pension plan and protect your loved ones group income protection and a group life cover.
• France: Protect your loved ones with life insurance covering up to 5 years of your salary, and safeguard your own financial stability with comprehensive income protection.

- Mental Health Support: Access individual and confidential sessions with a mental health practitioner or coach of your choice.

For more information about benefits, don’t hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition team.