Engineering Manager

**Description**

Lengow is a leader in intelligent e-commerce solutions that help brands and retailers drive profitable growth across the digital shelf. With powerful feed management, global price monitoring, and robust data capabilities, Lengow’s comprehensive SaaS product suite enables merchants to amplify product visibility online, outrun competition with informed pricing, multiply sales on marketplaces, and monitor brand presence among distributors. Since 2009, Lengow has fueled digital growth for over 3,600 customers across thousands of marketing and sales channels in over 60 countries.
Lengow is a profitable company.

**Our tech team**

The Tech, Data, and Product team comprises 70+ people from diverse backgrounds, working in our offices in Nantes, Paris, and Barcelona. Our products are developed thanks to six autonomous product Teams, each working on a specific business domain. The teams are led by a Product Manager and Engineer manager working with a dedicated small team of developers (from 4 to 8)

We are organised in Product teams, focused on a domain of the global platform. As the lead for the Public Data Acquisition team, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution, driving the development and evolution of:

- the public data collection: all activities related to crawling, scraping, and preprocessing data from external e-commerce websites. It also includes handling anti-blocking mechanisms and ensuring data quality for ingestion.
- the product matching: responsible for automatically matching customer products with data collected from e-commerce sites. It includes logic for suggesting matches and validation systems where customers confirm or decline matches.

Tech Stack:

- Language: PHP (Symfony)
- Storage: MariaDB, Redis, memcached, cloud storage
- Tools: GitHub, Jira, Datadog, Docker, RabbitMQ
- **️ Your main tasks would be as follows**:
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our talented team of software engineers. You will play a critical role in driving the development of our cutting-edge products, fostering a culture of excellence, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact projects. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful challenges in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and motivate a 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 engineering, you are also able to code part of your time (20-40%)
- 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

**Process**:

- Phone call with our Alexandre our Talent Acquisition Manager.
- Interview with Sergi, our VP of Engineering and Beatrice PM of the team.
- Technical test and restitution with members of the tech team.
- Meet the team

**Requirements**:
**We are looking for someone with the following experiences and skills**:
Qualifications:

- Proven experience (2+ 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.
- You have one or more experiences (3+ years) in PHP (ideally Symfony).
- 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 Spanish.
- Passion for technology and innovation, with a focus on driving business impact through engineering excellence.
- You are comfortable with both Cloud and On-premise environments

**Benefits**

**Why Join Lengow?**:
✨ **Benefits & Working Conditions**
- **Working Hours**: Monday to Thursday from 9 am to 6 pm, Friday from 9 am to 3 pm.
- **Flexibility**: Work from home on Fridays.
- **Environment**: Fast-growing tech company, young and international team.
- **Learning & Development**: Opportunities for quick career growth.
- **Company Perks**:
- Gym membershi