Engineering Manager - Squad Lead (Freelance, Hybrid)

Welcome to the Jungle; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freelance contract

Hybrid working environment

Cross-team collaboration

Job summary

Welcome to the Jungle is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for a freelance, hybrid role spanning Paris and London. You will lead a squad, own delivery, quality, and team health, and guide architectural decisions without hands-on feature delivery.

You will collaborate closely with Product and Design, read code, challenge trade-offs, and uphold high standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and release quality.

Qualifications

• 7 to 12 years of engineering experience including team leadership.
• Strong technical credibility reading code and evaluating trade-offs.
• Experience partnering with Product and Design to meet shifting priorities.
• High standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and releases.

Responsibilities

• Lead one squad and own delivery, quality, and team health on a freelance basis.
• Translate strategy into an achievable roadmap and manage trade-offs.
• Stay close to architecture, code quality, and technical decision-making.
• Maintain strong standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and disciplined releases.
• Coach, mentor, and conduct performance conversations with clarity.
• Recruit, onboard, and support engineers while fostering growth.
• Strengthen operational rigor through risk management and post-mortems.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Staff Engineers, and VP Engineering.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Code reading

Product collaboration

Bilingual French/English

Job description

Welcome to the Jungle is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for a freelance, hybrid role spanning Paris and London. You will lead a squad, own delivery, quality, and team health, and guide architectural decisions without hands-on feature delivery.

You will collaborate closely with Product and Design, read code, challenge trade-offs, and uphold high standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and release quality.