Head of Engineering

> 10 années d'expérience

CDI

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 📋