Are you passionate about building strong engineering teams, scaling delivery processes, and helping technology serve a meaningful mission?

At Qomon, we’re looking for a Head of Engineering to partner with our CTO and take ownership of engineering execution, technical guidance, and team enablement.

We are a growing B-Corp startup with a mission-driven product used in 70+ countries by citizen-led organizations, campaigns, and NGOs. You’ll be joining a small, ambitious, and transparent team that values ownership, pragmatism, and building things that matter.

This is a key role: your job will be to scale the team and delivery processes, so the CTO can focus on broader company strategy and cross-functional impact.

The role is based in our Bordeaux office, where most of the tech team and our CTO are located.

Your mission

You will be in charge of enabling a high-performing engineering team. Your scope includes:

• Engineering execution & delivery: ensuring consistent, on-time shipping of high-quality features, especially through tight collaboration with Product Designers and the Leadership Team. Keeping track of roadmap advancement, and reprioritizing when needed

• Developer enablement: improving onboarding, documentation, tooling, and productivity

• Operational leadership: owning engineering processes (planning, reporting, incident handling, etc.)

• Technical debt strategy: coordinating prioritization and execution across teams

• Cross-team alignment: collaborating closely with Customer Support, Sales, Marketing and Operations

• People mentorship: supporting technical leads and helping engineers grow

• Engineering metrics & visibility: defining clear goals, feedback loops, and progress tracking

Who you are

• 💪 Hands-on engineering leader – You lead with clarity, unblock teams, and know how to ship at scale without micromanaging.

  🧠 System thinker – You bring structure to complexity, balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.

  🎯 Execution-focused – You’re pragmatic and know how to prioritize what moves the business forward. You know how to take shortcuts and tradeoffs when needed.

  🤝 Collaborative & trusted partner – You work closely with Product Designers, Customer Success, Marketing, Sales and Operations, and enjoy building alignment across teams. You’re able to clarify complex topics to non-technical stakeholders to enable alignement and fast decision making.

  🌱 Team enabler – You care about coaching, mentoring, and helping others grow.

  ❤️ Purpose-driven – You’re excited by our mission and want to use your engineering leadership skills to support changemakers.

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including 3+ years in an engineering leadership role (ie. lead, staff engineer)

• Proven experience mentoring engineering teams in a startup or scale-up environment

• Proven experience working with Product teams, owning roadmap execution in Agile environments

• Previous experience in a SaaS environment is a strong plus

Skills

• Strong background in software engineering fundamentals; ability to challenge and support technical decisions

• Track record of implementing and scaling engineering processes (planning, metrics, quality, etc.)

• Comfortable balancing short-term delivery and long-term architecture needs

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, product-led company

• English fluency is required (our team is French-American; French is a plus but not mandatory)

The backend stack

Here is a bit of name-dropping regarding our stack in the backend: Golang, Python, Microservices, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, KrakenD, Redis, RabbitMq, Metabase & Dagster.

More infra related: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Monitoring (Telegraf + Influxdb + Grafana, Zabbix)

The infra stack is shared, extended & owned by all the tech team (Backend, Frontend & Data).

Benefits 🎁

• 🏡 Based in our Darwin office (Bordeaux), with flexible remote work policy.

• 🧠 A key leadership role with real ownership & decision-making power.

• 🌎 Work in an international team and in a fascinating sector (nonprofit & politics) within a B-corp.

• ♟️ Opportunity to play a key/strategic role in a young company and the possibility of receiving BSPCE (Stock Options).

• 🚀 Competitive salary.

• 👩‍⚕️ Quality health insurance with Alan (Alan Blue).

• 💡 A strong focus on both individual and collective training, aimed at fostering growth and continual professional development for everyone.

• 🌍 Regular team offsites & strong team culture.

Subject to changes.

1. A brief 20/30 minutes screening call with the COO to understand your motivation and the role & answer questions you may have about Qomon

2. 1 hour interview: Qomon demo + code base / architecture tour + discussion on some code you wrote + backend oriented discussion with other backend members

3. A 1 hour interview with our CTO to delve into the details of the position and address any questions

4. A 30-minutes interview with our COO to understand our company culture and values

5. A final interview with our CEO