Senior Engineering Manager

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 +€220 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 1000+ happy Pennylaners : we're now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (but also remotely), with a 4,6/5 rating on Glassdoor and an e-NPS of 94.

Build an international environment with more than 30 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

WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission

While some companies count on marketing and sales to gain market share, we are a product-led company and we are investing primarily on building an innovative and scalable platform. Tech teams have a crucial role to play to achieve this goal.

Team and context

The tech team is divided into more than 40 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 a new senior engineering manager to help us drive and mentor those squads.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the track level, you'll directly report to one of our Co-Founders & CTO (Quentin) or the Head of Engineering (Romain) and you'll be managing several Engineering Managers on a daily basis ("manager of managers").

You'll be working closely with a Group Product Manager and Product Design Manager, as well as collaborating with other Senior Engineering Managers.

Pennylane is based in Paris but our tech team is remote-first. The team meets in Paris a few days every four months for what we called the "Pennylane Tech & Product Days".

WHAT you can expect from your life at Pennylane

Within one month :

* You will learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week.

* You will follow the common tech onboarding trainings to get familiar with the application, the accounting concepts, and our coding practices.

* You'll 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 present and the everybody is fulfilled with their job.

* You'll start identifying our developers' key strengths and areas of improvement to help them grow.

* You'll collaborate with the other Engineering Managers to set up the appropriate process as the team grows.

Within 3-6 months :

* You will be comfortable within your track perimeter, people and best practices.

* You'll be able to provide leadership within the senior tech community at Pennylane.

* You'll be able to identify our senior community developers' key strengths and areas of improvement to help them grow.

* You will have the possibility to have impact at Pennylane scale by working on cross teams or transversal initiatives.

* You will participate in scaling the Pennylane application from 700k+ customers to infinity, and…