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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager • On-site • Full-time France Montpellier, France

We are hiring an Engineering Manager (permanent contract, 2 days of remote work per week) for Septeo's Notaires subsidiary in Montpellier, leading a team of about 8 developers within a 100+ person R&D organization, with a leadership style built on empowerment rather than control. The role is central to the transition of the technology stack toward a scalable architecture, and covers human, technical, and methodological responsibility for the team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of about 8 developers with a leadership style built on accountability and trust rather than control
  • Play a key role in transitioning the technology stack toward a scalable architecture
  • Hold regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support the team's development
  • Develop the team's skills, support career paths, and maintain a healthy, motivating work environment
  • Challenge technical choices, ensure best practices are followed, and oversee quality (DoR, DoD, reviews, tests, technical debt)
  • Help raise the team's maturity in CI/CD, architecture, and tooling
  • Give rhythm and visibility to deliverables, secure release reliability, and identify and remove organizational or technical blockers
  • Provide clear, useful reporting, communicate vision and decisions to the team, and participate in cross-team discussions with other Engineering Managers and management
  • Experiment with and spread AI-based practices within the team

Requirements

  • Successful prior management experience, ideally at a software company or with a technical team
  • Prior experience as a developer
  • Good web and project management culture, in web-service-based architectures
  • Ability to understand and challenge distributed architectures
  • Ease collaborating with varied technical profiles (backend, frontend, QA, product)

Soft skills

Leading by exampleTransparencyHumilityCollaboration

What we offer

  • A community of managers and peers
  • Real autonomy in organizing your team within a shared framework
  • Accessible, engaged leadership supporting Engineering Managers
  • Personalized training path, internal mobility, Udemy self-learning
  • Themed community events
  • A community committed to diversity and inclusion

About the company

Septeo Notaires is a subsidiary of the Septeo group with an R&D organization of more than 100 people, reporting to the Head of Technology.

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