Backend Engineering Manager – Scale Data, AI & APIs

Allianz Partners; Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Allianz Partners seeks an Engineering Manager (Backend) to lead people, delivery, and operational excellence behind our backend engineering organisation in the Advanced Analytics (DA3) function.

You’ll oversee Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI backend teams, driving engineering standards, productivity, and reliable service delivery while focusing on hiring, workforce planning and leadership development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership or people management role.
• Proven experience leading backend or full-stack engineering teams in modern software delivery environments.
• Track record managing multiple teams and supporting engineers at different career stages.
• Experience with performance management, career frameworks, talent development, and organisational planning.
• Strong background in hiring, interviewing, and scaling engineering teams.

Responsabilités

• Lead and grow backend engineering teams across multiple disciplines and technology stacks.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, succession planning, and employee engagement.
• Support Engineering Leads and senior engineers in their growth as technical and team leaders.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, continuous improvement, accountability, and inclusion.
• Own workforce planning and capacity management across Java and Python engineering teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align team structures, skill mix, and hiring plans with business priorities.
• Ensure teams are appropriately staffed to meet evolving product and platform demands.
• Partner with technical leaders on backend frameworks, microservice foundations, API standards, testing practices, and developer tooling.
• Support the adoption and consistent implementation of engineering standards across backend teams.
• Help drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Work closely with engineering, product, AI, platform, and frontend leadership to ensure aligned delivery plans and priorities.
• Facilitate cross-team planning, dependency management, and continuous improvement activities.
• Contribute delivery, quality, and organisational metrics to senior leadership discussions.
• Support change management and release planning processes within a regulated enterprise environment.
• Lead structured recruitment processes for backend engineering and leadership positions.
• Establish consistent interview and assessment practices that maintain a high hiring bar.
• Build onboarding, coaching, and career development programmes to support employee growth and retention.

Connaissances

People leadership

Hiring & talent development

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Backend leadership

Technical credibility

Outils

Java/Spring Boot

Python/FastAPI

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions)

GitOps

ArgoCD

Description du poste

Allianz Partners seeks an Engineering Manager (Backend) to lead people, delivery, and operational excellence behind our backend engineering organisation in the Advanced Analytics (DA3) function.

You’ll oversee Java/Spring Boot and Python/FastAPI backend teams, driving engineering standards, productivity, and reliable service delivery while focusing on hiring, workforce planning and leadership development.