Engineering Manager| CDI | Sophia-Antipolis |Regular remote work

Welcome to SMG France! 🇫🇷

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group France simplifies lives through innovative online marketplaces, empowering businesses and individuals across Europe. Combining expertise, creativity, and technology, we deliver impactful solutions that shape the future of digital marketplaces. Guided by our values—Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly—we foster collaboration, drive innovation, and create meaningful change.

Meet the team! 🌟

At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Meet some of the team members who you could work with:

• Jérémy Calles - Head of Engineering Manager - LinkedIn

About your future team

As part of the Purchasing team, you will drive society towards sustainable and meaningful consumption.

What you’ll do

As our Engineering Manager, you’ll ensure the smooth running of our engineering team and play a key role in shaping how we work and grow together.

• Lead and support a team of 7+ engineers — helping them develop their careers through coaching, mentorship, and guidance.
• Manage our Purchasing team, combining engineering leadership with product development responsibilities.
• Collaborate closely with our Product Manager to maintain alignment, foster effective communication, and build strong team cohesion.
• Contribute to the EM leadership group, representing your team’s needs and sharing insights to improve processes, culture, and delivery.
• Grow and develop the team by promoting collaboration, creating cohesion, and living our SMG values.
• Be a positive force in engineering — helping shape rituals, culture, and ways of working so they enrich our daily lives.
• Challenge and refine our processes, knowing when to add structure and when to simplify, always with the goal of enabling people to thrive.

What will you bring to the ride? 🚀

• You have 5 or more years of experience building software products.
• You have a strong background in software development, with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of software architecture.
• You have excellent communication skills and know when it is appropriate to solve a hairy problem in a meeting or outline a complex problem in text and diagrams
• You understand how to break down complex problems into manageable pieces of work
• You have experience building products. You have successfully worked in product teams, and have delivered features from idea through minimum lovable product to production deployment. You insist on working in an iterative process and know how to (and why) avoid big bang releases.
• You have experience building modern applications (in one of the following areas: frontend, mobile, backend, search, data storage, SRE)
• You have experience breaking modern web applications and have found ways to mitigate the things that broke and have found ways of designing systems that will be more resilient
• You know how to drive the team toward success and how to make sure that what has been committed for is also delivered.

What do we offer? 🤝

• Learning Boost: Training and conference budgets to sharpen your skills. 
• Growth Opportunities: Advance professionally and unleash your creativity. 🚀
• Global Team: Collaborate with diverse talent worldwide. 🌍
• Flexible Work: Up to 3 home office days weekly for ultimate comfort.
• Celebrations: Unforgettable annual parties.  🥳
• Office Perks: Fresh fruit, coffee, and top-notch gear like a MacBook Pro.
• Swiss Visits: Regular trips to our scenic Swiss offices.  🚄
•  Extra Time Off: 12 recovery days plus 25 holidays for well-deserved rest. 🌴

Recruitment Process 📆 

For this job position, you need to be located in France and have a valid work permit.

We aim to make our hiring process efficient and respectful of your time, targeting completion within three weeks.

• Hiring Manager Call: Discuss the role in detail and field any technical inquiries you may have.
• Interview with 2 Engineering managers - your future peers: role-based questions and exercises designed to showcase your motivation and skills in engineering management.
• Meet the PM and your Team: Following this, enjoy a casual coffee chat with your potential team members.
• Final Call with HR and Offer: We'll extend an offer to you upon mutual agreement.

The first three steps can be completed via videoconference, while the final step will take place at our office.

Onboarding process:

Your success is our success: that’s why we’ve designed a multi-step onboarding program (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months) to ensure you’re supported at every key stage of your journey with us.

Apply now
To take this opportunity, send us your detailed CV in English and feel free to add any supporting documents we need to look at in order to understand  that you are the perfect fit.

To learn more about us, visit our Welcome To the Jungle page!

About Us

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and cutting-edge European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with innovative products.

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. provides customers the best tools to meet their life decision needs. The portfolio includes Real Estate (ImmoScout24, Homegate, Flatfox, alle-immobilien.ch, Immostreet.ch, home.ch, Publimmo, Acheter-Louer.ch, CASASOFT, IAZI), Automotive (AutoScout24, MotoScout24), General Marketplaces (anibis.ch, tutti.ch, Ricardo) and Finance & Insurance (FinanceScout24, moneyland.ch).
The company was founded in November 2021 by TX Group AG, Ringier AG, La Mobilière and General Atlantic.

Disclaimer

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG primarily engages directly with candidates. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies unless we have specifically requested their assistance for particular roles. Any submissions made without a prior request from our Talent Acquisition team will not be acknowledged or considered. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of recruitment agencies in respecting this policy.