Staff Engineer

Job title:

Staff Engineer

Company

Akeneo

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. Akeneo empowers business leaders with software, education, and an engaged community all focused on the practice of product experience management.At Akeneo, our teammates are the driving force behind who we are and where we want to go as a company. We work every day to shape a first-class work environment and culture, which is rooted in our core values of Humble Hunger, Diligent Benevolence, Responsible Pioneers and Inclusive Community! Our Purple Fire isn’t just a set of values; it’s our unique way of igniting passion and driving excellence. Bold and fun, with a hint of the unexpected – it is the essence of who we are. We want our people to help us grow and to grow with us, and that’s why we do whatever it takes to equip our employees with everything they may need to make a tangible impact on themselves, the business and the company. Let our intrepid three-headed mascot #ZiggyTheHydra welcome you into her world and join us at Akeneo! Learn more about who we are as an employer and about our Culture and Values via our .Responsabilities

  • Technical Leadership: Drive technical excellence within Staff Plus and the wider engineering team by setting and maintaining best practices and standards. (e.g., leading the engineering guild and running practice drills with the team)
  • Architecture Design: Develop and improve scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective solutions for complex problems. (e.g., re-architecting legacy systems to improve efficiency, scale and easy of contribution)
  • Problem Solving: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and across product lines to identify and solve challenging technical problems. (e.g., highly-complex data modelling that cost-effectively scales)
  • 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 Staff Plus and 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)

Qualifications

  • Extensive Experience: You have 7+ years of experience in hands-on software development, with a strong background in building SaaS solutions that scale.
  • 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.
  • Leadership Skills: You have demonstrated leadership in previous roles, guiding teams through technical challenges over time and delivering impact directly as well as indirectly.
  • Communication Skills: You can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding.
  • Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements with ease.

Life at AkeneoCulture🌎 Diverse, cross-cultural team.🎉 Annual All Staff gathering week, office parties, team offsites👋 Top-notch 8-week onboarding program 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 smooth integration into the companyBenefits💰 Get the basics right with a competitive package and complementary health insurance.Time off⏰ Flexible working hours, hybrid home/office policy👶 Take the time you need to welcome a new family member with 16 weeks of maternity leave (30 days if you are the second parent)🏝️ Work from Anywhere Scheme – Explore the possibility of working from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per yearHealth & Wellness🧘 Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choiceEquipment🔊 Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub…💻 Choose between MacOS or Linux💸 Personal remote allowance to maximize your home office environmentProfessional Development🎫 Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (i.e. Meetups) or industry events🧑‍🏫 A £1,000 learning budget per employee per year.Corporate Responsibility🤲 Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with two 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!Interview processAll interviews will be conducted remotely and ideally within two weeks, depending on your availability. We are asking for a total of around seven hours of your time. There are no take home exercises, coding tests or surprises. We will not continue the process if you do not pass a step, this is to save you time and effort. If we decided not to move forward we will provide you with feedback.

  • Screening
  • Phone Screen: If your application has caught our attention, you will receive an invitation to a short conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists, where you’ll learn more about the role and about Akeneo.
  • Hiring Manager Chat: This short interview will allow you to go in more depth into what the role entails and discuss your experience and skills.
  • General Interview Loop: These interviews ensure you are qualified to join Akeneo and that you have what the Product Line needs at this point in time. Before each interview you will receive an email detailing the types of questions you will be asked and who your interviewers will be so you can research and prepare.
  • Technical Deep Dive: You will spend two hours with the CTO and our most senior Staff Engineer to discuss how you would solve a complex problem with limited knowledge and understanding. They are looking to see how you think critically, expose gaps, navigate ambiguity, focus on impact and execute.
  • Behavioural Deep Dive: You will spend two hours with a cross-functional panel of peers. They are looking to see what it’s like to work with you and how you add to our values. This interview relies heavily on examples from your past, so take some time to think back and write down some so you are best prepared. We want to emphasise that the purpose of this interview is not to “test” you. Instead, our goal is to create an environment and opportunities for you to express yourself fully, allowing us to understand your years of experience in a short timeframe. We encourage you to think of the interviewers as collaborators, there to ensure you have every opportunity to shine. We’re genuinely interested in learning about your experiences, thought processes, and approaches to problem-solving.
  • Team Interviews: The general interview loop will assess your technical skills, personality and how you can add to our culture. During this process we will gain an understanding of where you fit best within the organisation and will select the team.
  • Area-STO & Impact Owner: You will spend an hour with the leaders of the team we feel you are best suited to. They will discuss what they are working on, some of the challenges they are facing and will be keen to see how you might be able to help.
  • Team Meet: Your entire team will want to meet you at this point for an hour to see if you are someone that they would like to work with and learn from. The team will be curious about you as a person and what you want for your next chapter.
  • Offer

At all stages of your recruitment process, our Talent Acquisition team is committed to giving you an update in a one-week time frame.So? Is this job description all about you? Then what are you waiting for – click that Apply button so that we can meet you without further delay!Feeling hesitant because you think you’re not checking 100% of the requirements for the job, but still feel confident and motivated to grow into the position? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway, or reach out to us for questions or clarifications!

Expected salary

Location

Nantes, Loire-Atlantique – Paris

Job date

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:21:34 GMT

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