Engineering Manager

We are looking for our next Senior Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our development team! Are you passionate about people, delivery, and building high-performing teams? Do you love empowering others and being the bridge between vision and execution in a highly technical environment? This is your next challenge. Based in Nice, you will lead a team of 7 talented developers (2 front-end, 4 back-end, 1 technical project manager). Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll be instrumental in transforming our roadmap into real, impactful results through effective execution and team leadership. Key missions & responsibilities * Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 7 developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture * Translate high-level technical architecture (co-designed with the CTO) into actionable tasks and oversee backlog grooming and prioritization in coordination with Product * Own feature development from Technical Specification to Production operation * Monitor delivery timelines, define and track team performance metrics, and proactively remove obstacles to keep projects on track * Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and supporting professional growth * Facilitate agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups), ensuring high-quality software delivery through best practices * Track and communicate progress, represent the team in company meetings, and ensure engineering work aligns with business and product goals * Organize team-building activities * Handle escalations and production incidents with calm and clarity * Have a comprehensive understanding of the bodyguard product and technology landscape to enhance decision-making * Be an occasional contributor to development and code review * Organize the biannual team-building activity A typical day * Run daily stand-up with your team (front, back, project manager) * Identify any technical or organizational bottlenecks and remediate them * Assist to a Product feature functional specification kickoff * Participate in the technical specification of a feature with selected members of the team * Challenge high-level specifications for new features with the CTO * Prepare / Facilitate team retrospectives and implement improvements to team organization/processes * Organize 1:1s with engineers, and provide feedback * Represent the team in company strategy meetings or technical customer/prospect calls * Track progress and share updates about project advancement or delays * Peer programming sessions with team members Bodyguard Technical Mindset: * Product and tech teams work hand-in-hand, sharing daily meetings and full visibility over priorities and challenges * We believe that engineers should own every aspect of their work - from technical specification to production deployment and monitoring - ensuring end-to-end responsibility and impact for each feature * Our development lifecycle is fast and iterative: we deploy software to production multiple times a day * We value engineers who are curious in all areas of software engineering : be it backend, frontend, infrastructure, machine learning,, LLM or data * At Bodyguard, we believe in a hands-on approach at every level of the company, including the CTO and top management * Bodyguard is an AI company and an LLM early adopter. We have been running high-volume features powered by LLM for more than 2 years. We look at LLM with an educated engineering eye, understanding what it could bring to our product or internal processes, but also its limits Bodyguard Technical Environment * Golang (40%) / TypeScript (40%) / Python (20%) * gRPC (80%) / GraphQL (15%) / REST (5%) * PostgreSQL / ClickHouse * Terraform * Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes * Linear / Notion / Grafana / Prometheus / Slack * Next.JS / React / Tailwind Required experience and skills * Proven experience managing software engineering teams (ideally 5+ people) * Advanced backend software engineering skills. Comfortable with SLA-critical, high-load applications * Ability to translate technical and product vision into actionable plans * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills * Strong leadership, coaching, and interpersonal skills * Strong organizational skills and the ability to context switch across different topics * Experience working closely with the Product team * Comfortable with distributed, or hybrid teams * Fluent in French and English (mandatory) Recruitment process * Meet with HR * Meet with the CTO and an Engineering manager * Cultural fit * Meet the team you will be working with