Senior Engineering Manager – Multichannel Commerce

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization in a search for a Senior Engineering Manager - Multichannel Commerce based in Bordeaux, France. Our client operates at the forefront of commerce technology, enabling digital transformation for hundreds of global organizations.

In this role, you'll lead two engineering squads focused on seller experience and marketplace channel integrations. You'll manage approximately 12 engineers across Paris and Bordeaux, with close collaboration with US-based colleagues. This position offers one day of remote work per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop two engineering squads responsible for seller journey features and integrations with major external marketplaces, ensuring reliable delivery and maintaining high engineering standards
• Partner closely with Product and Design teams to define priorities, translate business requirements into execution plans, and balance trade-offs between delivery speed, quality, and technical sustainability
• Drive technical direction across your scope—challenging architectural choices, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions, and elevating 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 strong operating models for your teams—improving ways of working, protecting team focus, fostering ownership, and enabling effective collaboration with distributed international stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

• At least 4-5 years managing engineering teams, with proven experience leading teams of 5-6+ engineers, ideally across multiple squads
• Background in e-commerce, marketplaces, channel management, feed management, catalog management, or order management domains
• Solid Java background with 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 approach 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: able to lead discussions and collaborate autonomously with US-based and international partners (approximately 50% of working time will be in English)
• Full professional proficiency in French

Technical Stack:

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

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. We'll discuss your key projects, technical background, and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration.

The client's interview process typically includes:

• Hiring Manager interview (1 hour)
• Two 45-minute behavioral interviews to assess values alignment and meet stakeholders

Important: Please apply only through Get A Job.ai. Do not contact the client directly, as this may disqualify your application.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and the client's budget for this role.

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