Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead critical engineering teams in Bordeaux. In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop two engineering squads focused on seller journey optimization and third-party marketplace integrations, ensuring reliable delivery and maintaining high engineering standards across both teams
• Partner closely with Product and Design to define priorities, translate business requirements into execution plans, and make strategic trade-offs that balance delivery speed, quality, and technical sustainability
• Drive the technical direction of your scope by challenging architectural choices, ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable, and raising best practices in testing, observability, and incident management
• Develop your people through coaching engineers and tech leads, identifying growth opportunities, conducting performance and career conversations, and contributing to talent acquisition
• Build a strong operating model for your teams by improving ways of working pragmatically, protecting team focus, fostering ownership, and enabling effective collaboration with distributed and international stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

• At least 4 to 5 years of experience managing engineering teams, with a proven track record of leading teams of 5 to 6 engineers or more, ideally across multiple squads
• Demonstrated experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, channel management, feed management, catalog or order management, or a closely related domain
• A solid Java background with the technical depth to challenge architectural decisions, assess technical trade-offs, and manage Java engineering teams with credibility
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in demanding, fast-moving environments while protecting team focus and adapting management approaches to context
• Experience collaborating with international and cross-functional stakeholders across time zones

Essential Skills:

• Engineering leadership: ability to set direction, delegate effectively, and develop people at all levels
• Execution in complexity: capable of managing delivery, priorities, and trade-offs across multiple teams simultaneously
• Technical judgment: able to engage in Java architecture discussions, challenge integration design choices, and guide engineers on complex distributed systems
• Fluent English required: able to lead discussions, challenge decisions, and collaborate autonomously with international partners (approximately 50% of working time will be in English)
• French language proficiency at full professional level

Technical Environment:

• Java (recent versions)
• Spring Framework
• SQL
• Cloud platforms
• Microservices architecture

Location Details: Based in Bordeaux office with one day of remote work per week. You will directly lead 2 squads representing approximately 12 engineers based between Paris and Bordeaux, with close collaboration with colleagues based in the US.

How We Work with You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology organizations to connect exceptional candidates with transformative opportunities. When you apply through our platform:

• You'll submit your application directly on getajob.ai
• A dedicated recruiter from our team will screen your profile and discuss the opportunity in detail
• We will represent and submit your candidacy to our client organization
• Please do not contact the client directly, as all communication is managed through Get A Job.ai to ensure a professional and streamlined process

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruitment team.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive recruitment process. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.