Head of Engineering

Job description

📍 Paris | Full-time | Fluent 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧 At Bigblue, we're building the logistics backbone for the next generation of commerce. Modern brands sell everywhere: through their own online stores, marketplaces, retail, social commerce, and more. Across every channel, customers expect the same fast, reliable, and transparent experience after they buy. What used to be Amazon's exclusive advantage is now becoming the standard for every ambitious brand. We're helping them get there. Since 2018, we've built a tech-driven fulfilment platform used by 600+ brands, including Muji, Aigle, Scuffers, and Cabaïa. With 200+ Bigbluers across the UK, France, Spain, and Germany, our proprietary tech stack, and a network of 9 warehouses and over 100,000 sqm of fulfilment space across Europe, we ship millions of orders every month. And we're nowhere near done! Backed by €20M+ in funding, we're expanding across Europe and building the operating system that will power modern commerce operations at a global scale. At Bigblue, we hold ourselves to a very high bar: in the quality of our product, the rigour of our operations, and the care we bring to every merchant we work with. You'll be working alongside talented people on real, high-impact problems, in an environment where high standards come with genuine support, ownership, and room to grow. If you want your work to matter from day one, you're in the right place. **Head of Engineering** *Location: Paris 9th, France* *Compensation: Base €110-150k + Options: €100-200k (gross value)* You are an experienced people manager, team leader, and hands-on software engineer. You are passionate about simple solutions to complex problems, whether they are product or software. You thrive on growing and enabling people to have the biggest impact possible. You have designed and built complex and mission-critical products and systems, and have seen them scale from 1 engineer to one team and to multiple teams. You've been a consistent example of high standards, growth mindset, and teamwork for your entire team. As Head of Engineering, you will report to Mathias, our co-CEO, and work hand-in-hand with him and the Product team to grow the team from a flat structure to mission-defined teams. You will be responsible for all software delivery and for goal-setting for engineering. You will recruit, support, and scale our culture of product engineering, innovation, and pragmatism within Engineering. ### What the job involves - Directly manage engineers, set up a team management structure, and enable teams to be successful. - Contribute to growing Bigblue's strong Product Engineering culture. Lead by example by being a proficient, relevant and creative product contributor. - Own the engineering-wide responsibility for day-to-day execution against priorities while keeping Bigblue's engineering standards extremely high. - Spearhead extremely high software standards by leading by example and doing code reviews to raise the bar continuously. - Partner with the co-CEO and the Product team to drive process changes across teams, which ensure our Engineering processes are efficient, collaborative, and foster ownership. - Partner with Mathias and staff/senior engineers to perform architecture and engineering plan reviews. - Drive the engineering roadmap to maintain an excellent, AI-enabled developer experience by continuously investing in tooling and removing bottlenecks. - Source, screen, interview, and hire talented Engineering Managers and Engineers. - Cultivate a happy, motivated, and energized team. Grow and manage high and low performers into impactful contributors. ### Requirements - Have led a growing team of engineers through several evolutions of process and organization, with a strong bias for action. - Demonstrated technical depth and experience in full-stack, distributed systems. Enough to dive deep with an engineer, ask the risk questions, and build a precise understanding of Bigblue's stack. - Track record of outstanding people management, ability to influence and engage direct, indirect reports, and peers. - Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills and an ability to interface with executive-level management, board of directors, and staff. Professional English, conversational French.