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Engineering Director - Fullremote - F/M/N

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Fully-remote
Experience: > 10 years
Education: Master's Degree

Swile
Swile

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Have a look at the Innovation department
At Swile, the Innovation department (80 tech) is divided into 14 feature teams spread over our 4 Tribes 🦾
Swile Card (Employees benefits; gifts, cards, meal vouchers, mobility… )
Swile App (Praise, insights, messaging…)
Affiliates (our affiliate partners; restaurants / GMS brands / marketplace / e-commerce site, etc.)
Core (our cross-functional teams; security, finance, payment, engineering efficiency, platform, etc.)

Our technology is mainly made up of web developers experienced in Ruby / Ruby-on-Rails (40%) and JS Node & React (60%) technologies and frameworks, full swift iOS mobile side and full Kotlin Android.

The Swile platform is made up of several web applications and micro-services, each of which has its own database and API. Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS and described in Terraform. We are currently migrating all our servers to Kubernetes ⚙️. Joining Swile means working on a service with very high potential, which is deployed internationally (LATAM), and which involves real technical challenges: scalability, user traffic, B2B2C, payment… 🚀

We are looking for our last Tribe Director! in Full remote !

Your team: You will be leading the Swile App tribe, and manage the managers of 3 feature teams: “Insight”, “Cohesion”, and “Internal Communications”, each composed of 5 to 7 developers of complementary skills (front-end, back-end, full-stack, mobile, etc.), in full remote.

Your role: Coordinate the teams of your tribe to ensure alignment and efficiency, manage and grow your team’s managers, work together with other tribe directors, the CTO, and business teams to continuously improve our processes and communication, and embody and nurture our company and engineering values. ; +80% management, mentoring, roadmap, priorities, communication, transversal…

Your mission🔥:

  • Communicate the company vision and priorities to help the team prioritize efficiently, and translate the high-level strategic vision into a clear and actionable roadmap with your teams.
  • Build or contribute to programs or policies to nurture company culture and values, and make sure engineering guidelines are known and enforced.
  • Work with peers to solve problems across teams or tribes, detecting and removing deficient organizations and processes, proposing innovative processes and/or organizational changes, aligning teams across the whole company.
  • Develop your managers’ leadership and people skills, support them in getting a broader vision, organizing their team and processes efficiently, and making the right decisions. Work with them to spot and address issues early.
  • Actively participate in hiring the best engineering talents for the company, inspiring people to join and stay.
  • On occasions, contributes to architectural decisions with a focus on the product and business needs now and in the future, asking the right questions to help the team get to the right decision.

Preferred experience

  • good tech background and passionate about one of our stack Javascript (Node, React), Ruby or Mobile
  • constantly looking out for new tools, taking initiative and proposing improvements, passion for growing, developing and guiding people
  • “doer”, even when the product is not perfect, we deliver and we iterate!
  • experienced: ideally 10 years of minimum experience to adapt to our pace easily, follow the roadmap and work with remote teams, Paris or Montpellier
  • good knowledge of our daily tools: Slack, Google Suite, Notion, Git…
  • gladly welcoming, and regularly giving feedback to your team and to other Swilers
  • interest in working in an environment where leaders support their teams to do great work, through removing impediments, finding improvements, and facilitating effective decision making

Recruitment process

Video screen: 20-30 minutes (Tech Recruiter x candidate)

Hiring manager interview: 1 hour (evalution of soft/hardskills, teamfit, background, team/job informations) with Tribe Director

Tech case: 1h Architecture test with 2 developers

Swil’interview: 45 minutes / During this stage all our Swilers can be called upon and contribute to the assessment of the skills of our candidates (focus on culture and values). The interviewers will be able to meet the candidates without cognitive bias and have constructive feedback on their interpersonal skills and know-how. Involving all of our employees in the success of our recruitments is an integral part of our culture and our values

Management Interview: 1hour / focus on leadership, management skills

Final Round: 45 minutes / CTO or CEO

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