Hybrid Engineering Manager

at Lengow

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Nantes, France

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading software engineers at Lengow, an intelligent e-commerce solutions provider, ensuring project delivery and technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and motivate a small team of engineers (4 to 8) to achieve their best performance.
• Technical Guidance: Provide architectural and design leadership, ensuring technical excellence and scalability.
• Hands-on senior software engineer, you are also able to code part of your time (20%)
• Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they are on time and within scope.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and QA, to define and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Recruitment & Retention: Identify hiring needs, participate in recruiting efforts, and foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent.
• Continuous improvements & process optimization: Implement and refine engineering processes, tools, and best practices to enhance productivity and quality.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate progress, challenges, and solutions effectively to leadership and stakeholders.
• Team roadmap: in collaboration with your Team Product Manager, you will build the quarterly roadmap of the team

Requirements

• Proven experience (5+ years) in engineering management or a similar leadership role in a SaaS or e-commerce-focused organization.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in software development and system design.
• Proven ability to integrate AI Agents into the development lifecycle (e.g., automated code reviews, agentic testing, or AI-driven CI/CD) to enhance developer productivity and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop engineering teams.
• Excellent project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex projects on time.
• Strong understanding of agile development methodologies and modern engineering practices.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, you speak English and French.
• Passion for technology and innovation, with a focus on driving business impact through engineering excellence.
• You are comfortable with Cloud environments

Benefits

• Ticket restaurant 8 euros by day
• Malakoff Humanis Private insurance & Prevoyance.
• 3 Remote days per week
• Flexible hours
• Bike mileage allowances or 50% of transportation tickets.
• Remote allowances
• Professional events (Devoxx, Meetup ...) and regular internal cohesion.
• Weekly Happy Break on Thursday Evening at the office with food and beverage
• Syntec forfait jours with RTT - 218 annual working days, ie minimum 9 days off on top of 5 weeks legal paid leave
• Choose your laptop OS. You can work on MacOS, Windows or Linux.