Hybrid Engineering Manager

at ScorePlay

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

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading a team of engineers in building an AI media platform for sports. Collaborate with CTO and stakeholders to enhance product and technical delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and support a team of 4–6 engineers.
• Coach junior and mid-level developers through regular 1:1s, code reviews, and project check-ins.
• Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and psychological safety, where engineers ask for help early and learn continuously.
• Define career paths and growth frameworks that help your team thrive as we scale.
• Own and continuously improve the delivery rhythm of your feature team, from scoping and design to shipping and QA.
• Translate product goals into clear technical plans in close partnership with PMs and Design.
• Proactively identify blockers, quality risks, and technical debt, and help the team navigate them effectively.
• Stay close to the code: review architecture proposals, debug complex issues, and occasionally prototype or ship small fixes when it helps the team move faster.
• Partner closely with PMs to prepare pre-planning sessions and ensure smooth, productive grooming cycles.
• Collaborate directly with customers’ technical teams on API integrations and enterprise workflows when needed.
• Bring a technical voice into product discussions, ensuring what we build is feasible, scalable, and maintainable.
• Design and implement the processes, rituals, and best practices that will help us scale sustainably.
• Partner with Alex and Xavier on org design, hiring, and onboarding for future engineers.
• Champion a clean, elegant, and scalable mindset across the teams, from code reviews to architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years leading people (Tech Lead or EM).
• Strong technical foundation in backend systems, ideally Go, but we value architectural depth over language expertise.
• Experience mentoring developers, running 1:1s, and improving team velocity and code quality.
• Skilled at balancing technical depth with empathy and communication.
• Excited to still be hands-on at a strategic level, reviewing, unblocking, prototyping, without being in the sprint delivery loop.
• Experienced in a high-growth startup or scale-up (10–50 engineers) where process and structure were being built.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities