Engineering Director

Join Swile, a leading company in innovative solutions for Fintech, Travel, HR, and Employee Benefits. As an Engineering Director, you will shape the engineering organization, drive technical strategy, and lead high-performing teams. You will work closely with other directors, the CTO, and business leaders to align technology, organization, and priorities for long-term scalability and company performance.

We welcome individuals with entrepreneurial backgrounds as well as those from established organizations. At Swile, we believe that delivering impactful products requires engineers to understand the needs of users and clients as well as the code itself.

You are a future responsible Swiler: you share [our commitment](https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/swile/impact) to the environment, diversity, fairness and inclusion, and are prepared to work every day to improve individual and collective performance.

Responsibilities

• Définir et exécuter une stratégie technique alignée sur les objectifs de l'entreprise, et la traduire en une feuille de route claire et actionnable avec vos équipes.
• Diriger des décisions architecturales à grande échelle qui équilibrent innovation et évolutivité, et garantir que les meilleures pratiques d'ingénierie sont connues et appliquées.
• Construire et développer des organisations d'ingénierie performantes, y compris le recrutement, le développement et la rétention des meilleurs talents en ingénierie.
• Proven ability to define and execute a technical strategy at scale, translating business goals into clear engineering roadmaps and architectural directions.

Requirements

• Strong background in software engineering, with a significant portion in senior engineering leadership role
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations: hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent, including engineering managers.
• Strong cross-functional leadership: comfortable working at the intersection of product, design, data and business teams, and influencing without authority at executive level.
• Deep understanding of engineering culture and best practices — you know how to raise the bar while keeping teams engaged, autonomous and moving fast.

Benefits

• An opportunity to lead a dynamic team of talented engineers.
• A collaborative work environment that values innovation and creativity.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional development and career growth opportunities.

Our tech stack

• You do not need to be familiar with our technical stack or any specific functional area, but we have a strong willingness to learn and adapt quickly.
• Ruby/Rails, Typescript/React/Node.js, Android(Kotlin), iOS(Swift), AWS/Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Snowflake