BigbluePublished 6 days
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Head of Engineering

> 10 years of experience
Permanent contract
Engineering Manager
Management
Shopify
Stripe

Amazon vs Independent Brands: The E-commerce Battle 🛒

As Amazon dominates the e-commerce landscape, independent brands struggle to match their level of trust and customer experience. Faced with a tough choice, they can either join Amazon or risk losing customers daily.

Bigblue: Empowering Independent Brands 💪

Bigblue stands as a beacon of hope for independent brands, joining forces with companies like Stripe and Shopify to arm the direct-to-consumer rebellion. Shopify powers their e-shops, Stripe simplifies payments, and Bigblue stores and delivers their products globally.

Our Journey: Founded in 2018 🚀

Since our inception in 2018, we've raised an impressive $18M and grown to over 100 employees, operating from offices in Paris, Madrid, London, and remotely.

What Makes Us Special

  • Impact: Our small team builds mission-critical real-time systems that deliver hundreds of millions of euros worth of goods, affecting millions of buyers worldwide annually.

  • High-Standards: We maintain rigorous standards that enable rapid progress and multiple daily deployments, even for the most critical systems.

  • We Care: We prioritize the well-being of our team, fostering a positive and supportive environment where we help each other grow and learn from failures.

  • Pragmatic Product Mindset: As product-minded engineers, we evaluate trade-offs with product impact and customers in mind, ensuring practical value delivery.

Explore Our Product Culture 🔎

To delve deeper into our product culture, visit our Bigblue's product team hub: Bigblue's Product Team Hub

Head of Engineering: Paris, France 🇫🇷

Compensation: Base €90-130k + Stock options: €100-200k (gross value)

About the Role 💼

As an experienced people manager, team leader, and hands-on software engineer, you're passionate about simple solutions to complex problems. You thrive on empowering individuals to achieve their full potential and have a proven track record of designing and building complex, mission-critical products and systems.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll work closely with them and the Head of Product to transform our flat organizational structure into multiple mission-defined teams. You'll oversee all software delivery and engineering goal-setting, fostering a culture of product engineering, innovation, and pragmatism within the Engineering department.

Responsibilities 🛠️

  • Lead and manage engineering teams, establishing a successful team management structure.

  • Contribute to the growth of Bigblue's strong Product Engineering culture by actively participating as a proficient, relevant, and creative product contributor.

  • Ensure day-to-day execution aligns with priorities while maintaining exceptionally high engineering standards.

  • Collaborate with the CTO and Head of Product to drive process changes that enhance efficiency, collaboration, and ownership across teams.

  • Partner with the CTO and senior engineers to conduct architecture and engineering plan reviews.

  • Drive the engineering roadmap to maintain an excellent developer experience through continuous investment in tooling and bottleneck removal.

  • Source, screen, interview, and hire talented Engineering Managers and Engineers.

  • Cultivate a happy, motivated, and energized team, nurturing both high and low performers into impactful contributors.

Requirements 📝

  • Proven experience leading a growing team of engineers through various process and organizational evolutions, with a strong bias for action.

  • Demonstrated technical depth and expertise in full-stack, distributed systems, allowing you to engage deeply with engineers, ask critical questions, and develop a precise understanding of Bigblue's stack.

  • Exceptional people management skills, with the ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports, as well as peers.

  • Outstanding written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills, enabling effective communication with executive-level management, the board of directors, and staff. Professional English and conversational French are required.

Application Process 📋

  1. Informational call (Google Meet)

  2. Cultural fit in-person meet-up

  3. Experience deep dive (Google Meet)

  4. Onsite interviews (half-day in our Paris offices)

  5. References

Reference :bigblue-lever+Bigblue-Head-of-Engineering

Skills

Others
Shopify
Stripe
Project Management
Management
No code
Notion
Data
Progress

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