Engineering Manager

Global travel tech leader for European train ticket reservations, Rail Europe is the one-stop-shop for planning and booking European train travel.

Headquartered in France (Nantes & Paris), we are indeed an international & digital company with subsidiaries in the United States, India, China and Australia. 

Rail Europe is the trusted partner of +15,000 travel professionals in 70 countries.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager based in Paris or Nantes to help lead and support a development team of around 9 developers

You are responsible of your team efficiency (QoS, delivery, RUN) and, as a manager, you will follow up your team members’ evolution. You also participate in some of the software developments tasks.

The team is responsible of the development of an online booking service for train travel throughout Europe: Rail Europe. The mission of the team is to make booking trains anywhere in Europe as easy and affordable as possible, from epic international adventures to everyday local commutes.

The team is working on the B2B website and the underlying back-end system to connect to all the major Train Carriers’ systems in Europe.

Our main technologies are: Java, Spring, Node, Angular, Redis, Elastic Search, CoffeeScript, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

The team is a close-knit, and passionate team and care deeply about building an inclusive, open and supportive work environment.

The primary responsibilities are to serve and lead the Tech Team:

• Help to lead and support the development team through regular group and 1:1 meetings ;

• Support the team, ensuring we communicate and achieve flow, whilst helping us iterate our processes ;

• Partner with PO and other engineering manager to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs and risk ;

• Organize and attend planning and retrospective meetings ;

• Ensure quality standards are upheld ;

• Motivate developers and provide guidance on technical and non-technical challenges ;

• Ensure the team is fully aware of established roadmap delivery dates and work to meet them ;

• Contributing to development tasks such as coding, code reviews and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product ;

• Appreciate the asynchronous communication that accompanies a remote, flexible working team ;

• Help recruit and onboard new team members, from screening to interview stage, working closely with our HR team.

Diploma :

• Master’s Degree (equivalent to Bac +4/5 in France)

Experience :

• Several years experience of hands-on software development ;

• Fluent in French/English and confident communicating and sharing complex information and learnings with both technical and non-technical team members ;

• Understand and acknowledge the importance of honest communication and strong documentation ;

• Demonstrate technical leadership of both people development and projects execution ;

• Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, CI/CD, build processes, testing, and operations ;

• Good understanding of Agile working and facilitation ;

• Experience in the travel industry is a plus.

Soft Skills :

• Good Problem-Solving skills ;

• Decision-making ability ;

• Good communication skills ;

• Empathetic and capable of building strong relationships.

• Qualification call with one of our Talent Managers;
• Interview with Sylvain - Delivery Manager ;
• Interview with Jerome - Chief Product and Technology Officer ; ;
• 2 references.