Engineering Manager

Nabla; Paris (TX); On-site; USD 104,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Swile card

Paris office

Job summary

Cozycozy is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Product & Tech team in Paris, guiding delivery from concept to production with a strong product mindset.

You will bridge Product and Engineering, define technical solutions, uphold quality, and grow a high-performing team while fostering ownership and collaboration. The role combines hands-on leadership with strategic roadmap input in a fast-growing travel-tech startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Engineering / Software Development environments.
• Proven experience managing projects and delivery cycles.
• Experience working in an agile product environment.
• Previous experience managing a team of software developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering team from planning to production with a product-minded focus.
• Bridge Product and Engineering, define technical solutions.
• Ensure maintainability, robustness, and scalability of solutions.
• Foster autonomy, ownership, and collaboration within the team.

Skills

Project management

Delivery management

Agile experience

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Product mindset

Technical understanding

Tools

Angular.js

React Native

TypeScript

Node.js

Go

Python

GitLab

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Google Pub/Sub

Job description

Cozycozy is the only platform that gives you real-time access to all available holiday accommodations. Whether you're searching for a hotel, apartment, hostel, villa, or even a treehouse, our service features over 20 million listings from over 100 booking sites. You will find popular options like Airbnb, Booking.com, Abritel/VRBO and hotels.com, as well as plenty of specialized marketplaces to explore, such as Agriturismo, Gîtes de France, Onefinestay, Belvilla, Sonder, Travelski, and many others. Experiencing rapid growth, we are now present in over 50 countries in 20 languages, with offices in Paris and Budapest.

About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join Cozycozy’s Product & Tech team. Your role will be to lead the Engineering team and ensure the successful delivery of projects, from conception through to production, while ensuring a smooth, predictable, and high-quality delivery process.

Working at the intersection of Product and Engineering, you will bring a strong product mindset and technical understanding to turn product ambitions into concrete solutions, while supporting and developing the Engineering team.

Key responsabilities

1. Project planning and delivery

• Ensure projects are delivered on time and to the expected level of quality.
• Organize and oversee the Engineering team's delivery.
• Quickly identify risks, dependencies, and blockers, and put the necessary actions in place to address them.
• Ensure the team has sufficient visibility on priorities, timelines, and upcoming deadlines.
• Ensure high-quality production releases and a smooth release process.
• Continuously improve development and delivery methods and processes.
• Estimate the resources required to achieve the team's objectives.

2. Bridging Product and Engineering

• Work closely with the Product team from the earliest stages of product discovery and design.
• Contribute to defining technical solutions that effectively address product challenges.
• Challenge requirements and proposed solutions from both a technical and product perspective.
• Ensure that technical considerations, constraints, and dependencies are factored into product decisions.Facilitate communication and collaboration between Product and Engineering.
• Help build a realistic roadmap that balances Engineering capacity and technical considerations.

3. Ensuring technical quality

• Ensure the maintainability, robustness, and scalability of the solutions we build.
• Promote best practices in development, testing, documentation, and code reviews.
• Ensure performance, security, and reliability considerations are properly addressed.
• Contribute to architectural choices and key technical decisions

4. Managing and developing the Engineering team

• Manage, support, and help developers grow professionally.
• Provide clear visibility on objectives, expectations, and priorities.
• Establish and facilitate team rituals and ways of working.
• Identify hiring needs and contribute to building and scaling the team.
• Foster autonomy, ownership, and collaboration within the team.
• Build an environment where developers where developers can thrive and consistently deliver high-quality work

About you

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Engineering / Software Development environments.
• Proven experience managing projects and delivery cycles.
• Experience working in an agile product environment.
• Previous experience managing a team of software developers.

Skills

• Strong project and delivery management skills.
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and dependency management.
• Strong technical understanding and knowledge of web and mobile architectures.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ownership-oriented and results-driven mindset.
• Strong product mindset and understanding of business challenge.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership and people management.

Our Tech Stack
Frontend: Angular.js, React Native
Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Python
Infrastructure & Ops: GitLab, Kubernetes, Jenkins
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
Data: Fluentd, Google Pub/Sub, Data Lake, PostgreSQL

Why join Cozycozy?

You’ll operate in a key role in the development of a fast-growing travel-tech startup.

We encourage initiative, creativity, and ownership. You’ll have the freedom to shape processes and lead projects end-to-end.

Enjoy our office in Paris with unlimited coffee, tea, snacks, and drinks.

Competitive salary, stock options, Alan health insurance, and Swile card.

Our hiring process

• HR interview (virtual)
• 1:1 interview with our Head of Product.
• 1:1 interview with our CEO (on-site).
• Business case to present your recommendations to the CEO and our stakeholders.
• Meet the team onsite !