VP Engineering - CDI

Wiremind; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paris offices

Performance-based pay

Skills development

Learning environment

Hybrid policy

WellPass access

Tech culture events

Job summary

Wiremind, a Paris-based technical SaaS company, seeks a leader to unify Software Engineering and IT & Security into one high-performing organization. You will report to the CTO, guide budgets, and enable engineering leaders to scale across multiple products.

You will work with 80 engineers across several teams, shaping the technical vision, architecture, and hiring strategies while promoting a culture of learning and experimentation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years managing managers in an org of 50+ engineers.
• Built processes for growing engineering org: delivery, reviews, ladders, hiring, budget.
• Led adoption of AI coding agents in an engineering team.
• Owned an infrastructure or engineering budget and reported to an executive committee or board.
• Stays technical: can read code and discuss architecture with principal engineers.
• Bonus: experience with B2B SaaS, revenue management, transportation or ticketing.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead Software Engineering and IT & Security teams; manage people, processes and budgets.
• Ensure alignment with CTO on technical vision, strategy and research agenda.
• Heads of Engineering and IT & Security report to you; build the org accordingly.
• Maintain credibility with engineers by technical oversight and architecture reviews.
• Drive AI adoption across engineering and non-tech teams to boost productivity.
• Shape culture, leadership development, and career paths for engineers and managers.

Tools

Python

GraphQL/REST

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Job description

Since 2014, Wiremind has positioned itself as a technical company transforming the world of transport and events with a 360° approach combining UX, software, and AI.

Our expertise lies primarily in optimizing and marketing our clients' capacity. We work on various projects such as ticket forecasting and pricing, 3D optimization of air freight or scraping competitor prices. Our applications are the preferred tool of companies such as SNCF, United Airlines, Qatar Airways or even PSG to visualize, analyze and optimize their capacity.

Dynamic and ambitious, we strive to maintain our technical DNA which is the engine of our success. Bootstrapped and profitable since 2014, we have just closed our very first funding round: €35M to accelerate our growth. Our team is mainly composed of engineers and experts and supports the growth of our business model based on "software-as-a-service" solutions.

Your missions

Wiremind now runs three products (CAYZN for revenue management, PAXONE for rail booking, EVENTORI for sports and entertainment ticketing), each with its own software team, and shared Data, Platform and IT & Security teams: close to 80 engineers in about ten teams, led by Heads of Software Engineering, Heads of Data and a VP Platform. This organization grew from one product team to several in a few years, and it now needs a leader whose full‑time job is to make it work as one.

Reporting directly to Charles, Wiremind's CTO and Co‑founder, you will take ownership of the Software Engineering and IT & Security teams: their people, their ways of working, their delivery and their budget. The Heads of Software Engineering and the IT & Security lead will report to you. Charles keeps the technical vision, the product strategy and the research agenda; you build the organization that delivers them.

You will not code day to day. You must still be able to read our code, challenge an architecture and hold your own with our principal engineers: at Wiremind, credibility with engineers is earned on the technical ground.

Multiple organisational change are in progress, the first is AI: every engineer at Wiremind works with coding agents, but the rest of the lifecycle (review, maintenance, sizing and scoping) has not caught up, and we do not measure the impact. Beyond engineering, you will help non‑tech teams adopt AI to gain productivity internally, and activate every lever that can make the company more efficient. The second is culture: the company grew from one product team to several, silos appeared silently, and not enough is shared beyond a few libraries. The third is people: you build how your teams are followed and how managers grow, with career paths for engineers who manage and for those who do not. You make leaders emerge: spot potential, help developers grow and keep learning, and give them room to take on more. You also set a clear company position on our philosophy for hire.

Technical environment

• Backend: mostly Python (SQLAlchemy, in‑house task queue), GraphQL and REST APIs
• Frontend: TypeScript with Next.js, Angular and React depending on the product, D3.js
• Data and ML: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, Python ML stack, in‑house forecasting and optimization models
• Gitlab for continuous delivery, Kubernetes for infrastructure, Prometheus/Grafana and Kibana for operations
• AI coding agents for every engineer

Your profile

• You have 12+ years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years managing managers in an organization of 50 or more engineers, across several products or business units.
• You have built the processes of a growing engineering organization: delivery, reviews, career ladders, hiring, budget, and you can say which ones you would not do again.
• You have led the adoption of AI coding agents in an engineering team and can talk about what it changed, in numbers.
• You have owned an infrastructure or engineering budget and reported to an executive committee or a board.
• You stayed technical: you can read a codebase, discuss an architecture with principal engineers, and tell a good design from a fashionable one.
• Bonus: experience with B2B SaaS, revenue management, transportation or ticketing.

Our benefits

By joining us, you will become part of:

• A self‑financed startup with a strong technical identity!
• Beautiful 900 m² offices in the heart of Paris (Bd Poissonnière)
• Attractive remuneration indexed on performance
• A caring and stimulating team that encourages skills development through initiative and autonomy
• A learning environment with opportunities for evolution

You will also benefit from:

• A hybrid policy: 2 days of remote work per week and the possibility to work occasionally from abroad
• Access to WellPass at a preferential rate to maintain your well‑being
• A great company culture (monthly afterworks, regular meetings on technology and products, annual off‑site seminars, team‑building…)

Our Recruitment Process

1. A screening interview with Anne‑Laure our Lead Talent Acquisition Manager
2. A technical screening interview with Charles, co‑founder and CTO
3. An at‑home assessment in two parts: a short technical exercise (3 to 4 hours) used as a baseline for your design and coding, and three use cases drawn from real situations in our organization today
4. A in person technical session with Charles on the technical exercise for 1 hour
5. A second in person session on the use cases with Charles and some members of the tech leadership team: Head of Software, Head of Data, VP Platform
6. A last in person interview with Colin, co‑founder and CEO

Wiremind is committed to equality of opportunity, diversity, and fairness. We encourage all candidates with the necessary experience to apply for our job offers.