Engineering Manager

Parallel; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Office in Paris

Apple equipment

Competitive salary

Job summary

Parallel, based in Paris, is building AI agents to automate hospital administrative workflows. We are scaling with a small, focused tech team and seek a Stream Owner to guide engineering streams, drive technical direction, and deliver impact.

You will manage engineers, balance hands-on coding with leadership, and shape our engineering culture. If you thrive in fast-paced startups and love building, join us to accelerate healthcare automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in people management.
• Managed 4–5 engineers with responsibility for performance and growth.
• Strong full-stack or data background with hands-on coding.
• French-speaking and startup/scale-up experience.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage engineers: 1:1s, feedback, growth, performance.
• Own a stream end to end as its Stream Owner.
• Balance hands-on coding with management.
• Set tech culture, code quality, rituals and standards.
• Onboard new engineers and coordinate handoffs.
• Work daily with PMs, Ops and other Stream Owners to align priorities.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Full-stack engineering

Data background

Job description

At Parallel, we build AI agents to help healthcare facilities automate their administrative processes and unlock additional revenue, starting with medical coding. Today, up to 25% of healthcare spending is lost in manual, repetitive administrative work. Legacy software hasn't helped, it's made things slower, more complex, and more frustrating for care teams. We believe AI agents can change that. Our technology combines Large Language Models with system-level automation to handle real work inside existing hospital tools. No integrations, no disruption. Our first agent automates coding workflows and frees up time for medical staff to focus on patients. We launched in 2024, are backed by top investors (Index, Frst, Y Combinator, Hexa, Kima Ventures, Better Angle), and we're just getting started. The future of healthcare isn't just digital - it's automated. Come help us build it!

Context

Parallel closed a $20M Series A with Index Ventures, is deployed in 40+ hospitals, and is scaling fast. Founders Paul Lafforgue (Polytechnique, ex-Meta, ex-McKinsey) and Chris Rydahl (who previously built Hublo, Europe's largest healthcare staffing platform) are based in Paris with the team.

Our tech team is 10 people today, all reporting directly to the CTO - and it will double by 2027. A flat structure got us here, now we need managers who stay close to the code to get us there. The team is organized in streams, each run by a PM and a Stream Owner: Coding, Extraction, and Activity (activity steering, dashboarding, and our assistant products).

Your mission

Directly manage the engineers of your stream (AI Engineers, Software Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers): 1:1s, feedback, growth, performance.

Own a stream end to end as its Stream Owner: drive its technical direction and delivery with your PM.

Be a hands-on leader. Expect roughly 50% hands-on / 50% management - a bit more hands-on in your first months.

Be responsible for your squad's tech culture: code quality, rituals, standards, knowledge sharing.

Onboard new engineers and be the relay when the team changes hands.

Work daily with PMs, Ops and the other Stream Owners to keep priorities aligned.

Outcomes

In your first months, you are a trusted Stream Owner: you know your stream's code, clients and roadmap inside out.

Your team ships reliably and at pace, and every engineer knows what's expected of them and how they're growing.

New hires are productive fast, thanks to the onboarding and culture you put in place.

Over time, your role grows beyond one stream: you help shape how the whole tech org scales.

This job is for you if

You have 5+ years of experience, including at least 2 years managing an engineering team.

You've managed 4-5+ people and owned both their performance and the people side (feedback, growth, tough conversations).

Your background is strong full-stack software engineering or data - and you still love building.

You've worked in startups or scale-ups and thrive in a fast, high-ownership environment.

You see management as a way to have more impact, not as a title: you're happy to own a stream and write code.

You are autonomous and pragmatic: done beats perfect at this stage.

You are French-speaking.

Hiring process

• A quick call with our recruiter (30 min)
• A conversation with Chris, our CTO (30 min)
• A case study at our Paris office, covering both management and technical judgment. combined with a meeting with Paul, our CEO. (2h in total + preperation)
• Reference checks

Why should you join us?

• Real traction: Seed and Series A closed in under a year, with Index Ventures on the cap table.
• A problem worth solving: cutting hospital admin gives time back to care teams.
• A different technical approach: agents that work on existing systems without heavy integration.
• A team that has done it before: the founders built and scaled Hublo, and worked at Meta and McKinsey. High standards, low ego.

Competitive salary and equity, premium health insurance (Alan), Swile meal vouchers, latest Apple equipment, and an office in Paris (Strasbourg Saint-Denis).

We care about who you are, not just what's on your CV.

If you're drawn to what we're building but don't meet every requirement, we still want to hear from you. Studies show that women in particular tend to apply only when they meet 100% of the criteria. If that's you, please don't let that hold you back. We'd love to receive your application.