At Swile, we believe that good products can help reduce friction in daily professional life and boost employee satisfaction. Today, we provide innovative solutions in various areas such as Fintech, Travel, HR, and Employee Benefits to more than 5.5 million users in 85,000 companies in France and Brazil.
As an Engineering Director, your role is to shape the engineering organization required to deliver business impact at scale. You combine technical strategy, people leadership and operational excellence to create the conditions for teams to make strong decisions, execute with clarity and continuously improve their engineering standards. Working closely with other Directors, the CTO and business leaders, you align technology, organization and priorities so that engineering becomes a durable lever for company performance, culture and long-term scalability.Your missions 🔥
- Define and execute a technical strategy aligned with company goals, and translate it into a clear, actionable roadmap with your teams.
- Drive large-scale architectural decisions that balance innovation with scalability, and ensure engineering best practices are known and enforced.
- Lead, coach and grow your engineering managers, supporting them in building high-performing, well-organized teams.
- Actively participate in recruiting top engineering talent, and foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and high performance.
- Develop a strong understanding of customer and user needs, and maintain a close partnership with the Product Director to align technology decisions with business impact.
- Manage multiple complex and strategic projects simultaneously, ensuring risk management, timeline adherence, and effective resource allocation.
- Work cross-functionally to solve problems across teams and tribes, remove organizational bottlenecks, and drive alignment at company level.
- Champion sustainable and responsible tech practices, and represent engineering teams across departments to support the company's transformation into a tech-led organization.
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong background in software engineering, with a significant portion in senior engineering leadership role
- Proven ability to define and execute a technical strategy at scale, translating business goals into clear engineering roadmaps and architectural directions.
- Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations: hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent, including engineering managers.
- Strong cross-functional leadership: comfortable working at the intersection of product, design, data and business teams, and influencing without authority at executive level.
- Deep understanding of engineering culture and best practices — you know how to raise the bar while keeping teams engaged, autonomous and moving fast.
- You are a future responsible Swiler: you share our commitment to the environment, diversity, fairness and inclusion, and are prepared to work every day to improve individual and collective performance.
We welcome individuals with entrepreneurial backgrounds as well as those from established organizations. At Swile, we believe that delivering impactful products requires engineers to understand the needs of users and clients as well as the code itself.
Our tech stack
You do not need to be familiar with our technical stack or any specific functional area, but we have a strong willingness to learn and adapt quickly.
Ruby/Rails, Typescript/React/Node.js, Android(Kotlin), iOS(Swift), AWS/Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Snowflake
💡What’s in it for you ?
- An opportunity to lead a dynamic team of talented engineers.
- A collaborative work environment that values innovation and creativity.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Professional development and career growth opportunities.
Skills Required
- Strong background in software engineering with senior engineering leadership experience
- Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy and translate business goals into engineering roadmaps
- Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including hiring and developing engineering managers
- Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence product, design, data, and executive stakeholders
- Deep understanding of engineering culture and best practices to raise quality while preserving team autonomy
- Commitment to environment, diversity, fairness, and inclusion
What We Do
We've made it our mission to create a more fulfilling world of work. The secret? Making people smile. Celebrating with your team after closing a big project. Grabbing lunch with coworkers at your favorite sushi place. Spending your employee benefits with a hassle-free payment solution. It’s time to start smiling at work. Here’s how: Swile Card: the all-in-one card for all your employee benefits. Meal vouchers, gift vouchers and mobility benefits are on one single smartcard that automatically pulls from the right account. It's compatible with Apple and Google Pay, and you can link your bank card to pick up the difference if you go over the daily limit. Checkout in just one swipe! Our App: the super-app to nurture team cohesion. Shower colleagues with emojis for professional or personal praises. Start a free collection for an upcoming birthday. Organize the next happy hour. Payback a coworker.... 1001 ways to connect, 1 app to do it. Insights: fun, gamified surveys to take the pulse of your teams. With our powerful analytics tool, pinpoint key engagement drivers and turn results into action. Drive positive change within your company. Everyday, every moment, give a reason to Swile
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