Engineering Manager 🇪🇺

This position is not currently open for active recruitment. We are keeping this job description online to build a talent pool for potential future openings, as our hiring needs may evolve quickly. Applications may be reviewed for future opportunities that match your experience. If you would like us to retain your application for this purpose, please review our privacy notice and complete the application form. Your personal data will be retained in our talent pool for 2 years. After this first period, we will ask for your consent to retain your application information for a further 2 years. You may object at any time and request the deletion of your data from our talent pool by writing to dpo@pennylane.com. Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe? Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment? Do you feel like our Engineering principles are aligned with your vision ?   Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂   Our vision   We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.   We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.   Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients. About us Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)   In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to : 💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants 💰 Raise a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more... 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 1100+ happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor . 🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe 🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings 🚀 Already more than 1 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!   👪 Team and context   The tech team is divided into more than 50 squads, each squad being led by an Engineering Manager working with a PM and a Product Designer and composed of 5 to 8 developers (Frontend, Backend and Full stack). As we scale and increase the number of Squads, we are looking for Engineering Managers to help us drive and mentor those squads.    Pennylane is based in Paris but our tech team is remote-first. You can work from anywhere in Europe. The team meets in Paris a few days every two months.   🎯Your missions   - Manage a team of 5 to 8 Software Engineers - Keeping a mix between individual contribution and management (but that's something which can vary depending of your expectations) - Collaborate with the product manager to make sure our standards in terms of quality and efficiency are respected but also that there is a good mood and that everybody is fulfilled in their job - Identify our developers' key strengths and areas of improvement to help them grow - Collaborate with the other Senior Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers to set up the appropriate process as the team grows   ✨ What's exciting about our project ?   - The vision : We want to change the life of thousands of entrepreneurs throughout Europe with our solution - The ambition : We are scaling at a very rapid pace and we want to become one of the fintech leaders within 2-