Staff Engineer (with Front-end affinities)

Akeneo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Staff Engineer to join their innovative team. This role emphasizes creating intuitive, user-friendly experiences while driving technical excellence across product lines. You'll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to simplify the user lifecycle and enhance product interactions. As a foundational member of a new team, your contributions will directly impact the company's success in delivering high-quality SaaS solutions. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about technology, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Hybrid setup

25 days holiday per year

Paid maternity leave

Work from Anywhere Scheme

Mental health coaching

Personal hybrid working allowance

Learning budget

Sustainable Transportation Allowance

Employee Volunteering program

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on SaaS.
• Proven leadership in guiding teams through technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence and best practices within the engineering team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex UX problems.

Skills

Full-stack software development

React

PHP

Go

Python

Typescript

Software architecture principles

Technical leadership

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Slack

Notion

Google Suite

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.

We're all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You'll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.

Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on full-stack Staff Engineer with a strong bias toward action and a drive to create intuitive, user-friendly experiences.

In the Akeneo organisation, each Product Line operates independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO) at VP level. Within each Product Line, multiple Area Single Threaded Owners (Area-STOs) at Director level oversee several Impact Teams. Each Impact Team, led by an Impact Owner, comprises approximately eight engineers, designers and PMs who work autonomously, following their own processes and methodologies.

Akeneo’s products are recognised worldwide for their ease of use by customers, partners, and market analysts. As we scale and enter a new strategic phase in an increasingly competitive market, delivering a seamless, intuitive user experience is more critical than ever. That’s why we’re forming a brand-new team dedicated to simplify the end-to-end experience across our products, and at every stage of the user lifecycle—from discovery to onboarding, adoption to expansion. We want Akeneo to be the most intuitive and indispensable platform for bringing products to life. And we need your help to make it happen.

As a foundational member of this team, you will play a key role in shaping its direction, driving technical excellence, and delivering real value to our users—one impactful step at a time. You will be expected to own, drive and contribute code to projects to ensure their successful impact within a given appetite.

In this role, you will create solutions to complex problems, optimise existing systems and ensure seamless integration across various technologies and platforms. Your leadership and expertise will be instrumental in driving the success of our engineering initiatives and team. Reporting directly to the Single Threaded Owner (STO), who is extremely passionate about delivering this impact, you will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product managers, designers and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership: Drive technical excellence within the wider engineering team by setting and maintaining best practices and standards, with a focus on front-end engineering (e.g. leading a front-end engineering guild across product lines).
• Technical ownership: Own the team’s ship vehicles such as the Design System and the Free Trial. Ensure solutions scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness and accessibility.
• Problem solving: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and across product lines to understand the users jobs to be done (JTBD), identify and solve challenging technical and UX problems (e.g. moving away from product legacy, and contributing to front/back-end decoupling).
• Unified team: Foster a unified team environment by promoting deep customer-centricity, technical collaboration and open communication (e.g. working with teams to workshop options and think creatively about solving problems).
• Mentorship: Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement (e.g. deep-dive retrospectives on staff projects).
• Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our technology stack (e.g. evaluating and prototyping build/buy/partner options).
• Potential for Team Management: As opportunities arise, take on team management responsibilities, such as stepping into an Impact Owner role.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience: You have 8+ years of experience in hands-on full-stack software development and a strong background in building high-quality SaaS experiences that scale. Preferably React, PHP, Go, Python and Typescript.
• Proven track record: You have a history of delivering impact end-to-end as well as taking ownership to turn around projects.
• Technical expertise: You possess in-depth knowledge of software architecture principles and have successfully designed and implemented complex systems that scale, and have experience decoupling large codebases. You have a solid grasp of modern front-end technologies and frameworks and how they integrate with scalable back-end systems.
• Leadership: You have demonstrated leadership in previous roles, guiding teams through technical challenges over time and delivering impact directly as well as indirectly.
• Communication & collaboration: Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, fostering cross-functional alignment and promoting a unified, customer-centric approach to product development.
• Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements with ease.
• Team Leadership Experience: Previous experience leading an engineering team, particularly in environments where technical leadership and direct impact go hand in hand (e.g. driving team execution, or acting as a technical lead with management responsibilities).

Life at Akeneo

Culture

Diverse, cross-cultural team.

Office parties, team offsites.

Top-notch 8-week onboarding programme for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company.

General

Competitive package and complementary health insurance.

Time off

Flexible working hours and hybrid setup (up to 3-4 days per week working from home).

25 days holiday per calendar year in addition to Public Holidays.

16 weeks (France) / 26 weeks (UK) paid maternity leave - (30-33 days paid leave if you are the second parent).

Gradual Return to Work program after maternity or adoption leave.

️Work from Anywhere Scheme - Explore the possibility of working from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per year.

Health & Wellness

Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice.

Equipment

Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub...

A €500/£450 personal hybrid working allowance to maximize your home office environment.

Professional Development

Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (i.e. Meetups) or industry events.

A €/£1,000 learning budget per employee per year.

Perks & Discounts

Get your Swile lunch card funded at 50% by the company (France only).

️Comité Social et Economique: advantages and deductions on cultural activities, entertainment etc. (France only.)

Take advantage of our company crèche whether you need a nursery spot (subject to availability), emergency childcare, or care for Wednesdays and school vacations. (France only.)

A €45/£80 per month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting options such as public transportation, biking, or carpooling if eligible.

Corporate Responsibility

Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with 2 days per year dedicated to supporting the charities of your choice.

Join one or several of our Employee Resource Groups and take an active part in promoting diversity and inclusion within our company.

Diversity & Inclusion: Akeneo provides and ensures a safe work environment for everyone, regardless of seniority, gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other characteristics. Akeneo is deeply anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and inclusive. We create the right conditions for you to feel safe and be yourself.