We are looking for our next Senior Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our development team!

Are you passionate about people, delivery, and building high-performing teams? Do you love empowering others and being the bridge between vision and execution in a highly technical environment? This is your next challenge.

Based in Nice, you will lead a team of 7 talented developers (2 front-end, 4 back-end, 1 technical project manager). Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll be instrumental in transforming our roadmap into real, impactful results through effective execution and team leadership.

Key missions & responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 7 developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture
• Translate high-level technical architecture (co-designed with the CTO) into actionable tasks and oversee backlog grooming and prioritization in coordination with Product
• Own feature development from Technical Specification to Production operation
• Monitor delivery timelines, define and track team performance metrics, and proactively remove obstacles to keep projects on track
• Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and supporting professional growth
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups), ensuring high-quality software delivery through best practices
• Track and communicate progress, represent the team in company meetings, and ensure engineering work aligns with business and product goals
• Organize team-building activities
• Handle escalations and production incidents with calm and clarity
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the bodyguard product and technology landscape to enhance decision-making
• Be an occasional contributor to development and code review
• Organize the biannual team-building activity

A typical day

• Run daily stand-up with your team (front, back, project manager)
• Identify any technical or organizational bottlenecks and remediate them
• Assist to a Product feature functional specification kickoff
• Participate in the technical specification of a feature with selected members of the team
• Challenge high-level specifications for new features with the CTO
• Prepare / Facilitate team retrospectives and implement improvements to team organization/processes
• Organize 1:1s with engineers, and provide feedback
• Represent the team in company strategy meetings or technical customer/prospect calls
• Track progress and share updates about project advancement or delays
• Peer programming sessions with team members

Bodyguard Technical Mindset:

• Product and tech teams work hand-in-hand, sharing daily meetings and full visibility over priorities and challenges
• We believe that engineers should own every aspect of their work - from technical specification to production deployment and monitoring - ensuring end-to-end responsibility and impact for each feature
• Our development lifecycle is fast and iterative: we deploy software to production multiple times a day
• We value engineers who are curious in all areas of software engineering : be it backend, frontend, infrastructure, machine learning,, LLM or data
• At Bodyguard, we believe in a hands-on approach at every level of the company, including the CTO and top management
• Bodyguard is an AI company and an LLM early adopter. We have been running high-volume features powered by LLM for more than 2 years. We look at LLM with an educated engineering eye, understanding what it could bring to our product or internal processes, but also its limits

Bodyguard Technical Environment

• Golang (40%) / TypeScript (40%) / Python (10%)
• gRPC (80%) / GraphQL (15%) / REST (5%)
• PostgreSQL / ClickHouse
• Terraform
• Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes
• Linear / Notion / Grafana / Prometheus / Slack
• Next.JS / React / Tailwind

Required experience and skills

• Proven experience managing software engineering teams (ideally 5+ people)
• Advanced backend software engineering skills. Comfortable with SLA-critical, high-load applications
• Ability to translate technical and product vision into actionable plans
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong leadership, coaching, and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to context switch across different topics
• Experience working closely with the Product team
• Comfortable with distributed, or hybrid teams
• Fluent in French and English (mandatory)

Recruitment process

• Meet with HR
• Meet with the CTO and an Engineering manager
• Cultural fit
• Meet the team you will be working with