Head of Engineering
Skeepers, France

SKEEPERS is a French group that is changing the world of customer experience. With a strong international ambition (offices in Spain, Italy, Germany, but also Brazil and the USA), SKEEPERS helps brands generate value by and for their customers.

With its SaaS solutions for influencer marketing, consumer video and live shopping, data marketing and feedback management, SKEEPERS provides brands with a complete offer that allows them to prescriptively activate the data collected from customer feedback for marketing purposes.

You will join the Ramp;D team of Skeepers (125 staff), a talented team working on the development of all Skeepers Solutions. In a SaaS company like SKEEPERS, the Engineering team is the main engine of our growth. Your work will have a direct impact on our end customers and your taste for challenge will allow the whole group to grow.

Within the Ramp;D department, you will oversee our Consumer Video solution

On a daily basis you will manage the technical team (5 people) and you will be responsible for the technical choices.

Reporting directly to the VP Engineering and supported by the CTO, you will oversee the Consumer Video roadmap and its technical Team. Your main missions will be the following:

Solution Roadmap (Product amp; technical):

• Work closely with the Product Team (Product Manager amp; Product Designer) to build solutions customers love
• Build an architecture vision for complex projects. Break them down into milestones to make them more manageable as a team and consistent with the vision and business issues

Deploy and ensure engineering best practice:

• Lead and inspire a team of talented developers (Tech lead, Back, Front amp; Fullstack Developer)
• Evangelize best software development practices (DDD, TDD, CICD) with the squad
• Perform code reviews and design reviews to ensure compliance with development standards
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing best practices and habits

• Keep informed of any useful new features (lib, pattern...) to achieve the objective of a reliable, maintainable and performing code

Team management:

• Manage your team (career interview, training, performance, )
• Partner with HRBP team to attract and retain high quality and diverse talent
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship on a regular basis

Delivery management:

• Collaborate with team members to develop high-traffic low-latency applications while delivering high-availability and performance
• Build, optimize, and scale the microservice platform
• Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents
• Ensure operational excellence (velocity, code quality, )

Technical stack:

• Backend: NodeJS
• Frontend: ReactJS
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Container: Kubernetes / Docker

• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Cloud provider: AWS amp; GCP
• Video: FFMPEG
• Other: Redis, Talend, Kafka, ELK, Jira, ...

Requirements

• 5/10 years of experience in software and web development
• 2 years of experience in management or leadership of a software engineering team in Agile methodology
• Experience of video encoding is a plus
• Demonstrated project management and delivery experience
• Work as a leader, you have a strong sense of commitment to projects and team responsibilities

• Strong experience in training and coaching junior developers
• Strong leadership, time management, and problem-solving skills
• You can communicate effectively with other team members and stakeholders to explain and advocate your choices.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work under strict deadlines
• Good organization and communication skills

• Fluent in English

Benefits

• A division at the forefront of innovation in terms of marketing technology.
• A team that is passionate about their work and highly effective in the areas of expertise, enabling you to quickly develop your skills.
• ?The opportunity to play a strategic role within a dynamic structure in an innovative and competitive market.

• The opportunity to participate in seminars and other events organised by the group in France or abroad.
• A possibility to work in a hybrid way from home or from the office depending on your work/life balance.
• Restaurant tickets with the Swile Card
• Health insurance company, CSE, ...

Job Rewards and Benefits