Engineering Director

Swile; Montpellier; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Career growth

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Swile is seeking an Engineering Director to shape the engineering organization and drive scalable impact. You will align technology with business goals, define a clear roadmap, and lead managers to build high performance teams.

You will recruit top engineers, partner with Product, drive architectural decisions, and champion sustainable engineering practices as Swile transforms into a tech-led company.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in senior engineering roles.
• Ability to translate business goals into clear engineering roadmaps.
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations.
• Strong cross-functional leadership across product, design, data and business teams.
• Deep understanding of engineering culture and best practices.
• Commitment to environment, diversity, fairness and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a technical strategy aligned with company goals and translate it into an actionable roadmap.
• Drive large-scale architectural decisions balancing innovation with scalability.
• Lead, coach and grow engineering managers into high-performing teams.
• Actively participate in recruiting top engineering talent.
• Partner with Product to align technology decisions with business impact.
• Manage multiple complex projects with risk management and timelines.
• Work cross-functionally to resolve bottlenecks and align across tribes.
• Champion sustainable and responsible tech practices across the company.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

Technical strategy at scale

Hiring and talent development

Cross-functional leadership

Engineering culture & best practices

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Job description

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.

• 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

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.

• 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.

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.

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.