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.
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).
This position is open in the Catalogue Management Team. The missions of the team are:
- Enable seamless import of product catalogues from various sources (e.g., CSV, XML, API from PIMs, ERPs, e-commerce platforms like Shopify or Magento).
- Standardize disparate catalogue formats into a unified internal structure.
- Provide tools for our customers to optimize their catalogue for their targets (Marketing channels, marketplaces, different localisations, ...)
- Leverage new technologies and innovations, such as AI and machine learning, to enrich product data with additional information (e.g., brand, color, GTINs, images)
- Ensure performance and reliability of catalogue processing pipelines, to manage catalogues ranging from hundreds to millions of SKUs.
- Lead the fastpublishing project into the Calatlogue Management domain. The aim of fastpublishing is to accelerate catalogue updates thanks to a change in paradigm: moving from a batch apporaoch to an API first even-driven approach
Missions & profile
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 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 engineering, 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
Qualifications:
- 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.
- 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
- Hands-on manager willing to code 20% of his/her time
You are our ideal candidate if...
- You are autonomous, proactive and versatile.
- You have one or more experiences (5+ years) in Python and in PHP
- You are comfortable with AWS or GCP services
- You are experienced in event based architecture (Kafka, Rabbit-MQ, SNS/SQS, Pub/Sub or any other framework)
- You are proficient in SQL
- You are experienced with one or several e-commerce platform, like Shopify, Woocommerce, Magento, …
- You used AI LLMs to automate code generation
Benefits
What We Offer:
- 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.
How to Apply:
If you are a passionate and experienced Engineering Manager looking to make a difference in the e-commerce space, we want to hear from you! Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are excited about this opportunity.
Process
- Phone call with our Alexandre our Talent Acquisition Manager.
- Interview with Clément, our VP of Engineering, and Olivier our CTO.
- Technical test and restitution with members of the tech team.
- Meet the team
