Engineering Manager - Platform - M H/F Doctolib

What we do

Join a team of passionate and hardworking entrepreneurs to transform healthcare!

Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with engineering, design, and business teams.

At Doctolib, we build products that need to scale to millions of people throughout Europe and to yet remain easily maintainable by hundreds of developers. We do several daily deployments, and run 25K+ automated tests through our CI pipeline. The backend runs on Ruby on Rails, backed by PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Our PostgreSQL databases represent a total of 30TB and receive 30M queries by minute under high traffic.

What you'll do

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead Doctolib's Core Backend team, ATP, which manages the backend foundations for Doctolib.

ATP is part of the Platform domain, whose mission is to build and maintain the common building blocks of our system with a "Platform as a Product" mindset. We abstract and simplify the use of these complex, critical components, enabling product teams to focus on their core mission: building products faster for healthcare professionals and patients.

At ATP, we concentrate specifically on our Ruby backend foundations, with a strong focus on quality, scalability, and usability. All Doctolib product teams rely on the foundations we provide, leveraging the components we build to accelerate their development while ensuring the highest standards of quality and security.

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide a team of talented engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and help shape the future of Doctolib's backend platform.

You will be both a technical leader and a people manager, coaching and training your team members while building an amazing engineering organization at Doctolib. In this role, you will:

- Ensure business objectives are met as a team, by driving growth and performance of each team member;
- Set the roadmap for your team, and be the end-to-end owner of the team's delivery and quality;
- Participate in code reviews and be hands-on if required;
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to up-level our engineering team;
- Together with your product partner, define a mission, vision for your team and align on a clear roadmap to make it happen;
- Set standards and exceed security, reliability, performance and scalability requirements that are needed to continue to be the most trusted e-health SaaS;
- Participate in architecture reviews to ensure that the solution delivered by your team meets Doctolib quality standards;
- Partner with Talent & People teams to recruit, develop and retain talent.

Who you are

If you don't meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!

You could be our next team mate if you:

- You have at least 8+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years of management experience
- Are eager to be hands on with our stack: we use Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, Typescript, React (and we are happy to help you ramp up);
- You understand the value of testing your code;
- Have the ability to adapt to the most efficient technologies to solve issues;
- Have proven experiences developing efficient, maintainable and secure products;
- Are comfortable speaking English in your day by day with the team; French fluency is a plus

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

- - Have already experience leading Platform initiatives;
- Have a great understanding of cloud infrastructures and security topics

What we offer

- Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
- Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
- Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
- For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
- Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
- Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
- Up to 14 days of RTT
- A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
- Lunch voucher with Swile card
- Relocation support for international mobilities

The interview process

- Recruiter Interview
- System Design interview
- Behavioral Interview
- EM Case study Interview
- Reference Check

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact ****@****.** for inquiries or to exercise your rights.