Senior Software Engineer, Akeneo
Site Reliability
Salary not provided
PHP
Kubernetes
GCP
GraphQL
Go
Terraform
GSuite
JIRA
Slack
Notion
Datadog
Mid and Senior level
London
Paris
1-2 days a week in office
Product Experience Management solutions
Open for applications
Product Experience Management solutions
201-500 employees
B2BMarketingSaaSSales
Open for applications
Salary not provided
PHP
Kubernetes
GCP
GraphQL
Go
Terraform
GSuite
JIRA
Slack
Notion
Datadog
Mid and Senior level
London
Paris
1-2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
B2BMarketingSaaSSales
Company mission
To fundamentally disrupt the product information category and better serve the rapidly growing needs of modern omnichannel brands and retailers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 4**+ years of experience** in hands-on software development, with a strong background in building SaaS solutions, infrastructure, reliability, observability, monitoring. Preferably GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, PHP, Go, Datadog
- Track Record: You have a history of delivering impact end-to-end as well as taking ownership of projects
- Technical Expertise: You possess in-depth knowledge of site reliability principles, understanding of software development principles and have successfully built solutions that scale
- Communication Skills: You can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and work very well within a diverse team
- Adaptability: You thrive in a fast-paced, impact focused environment and can handle uncertainties and changing requirements
- Mentoring Skills: You have demonstrated that you can mentor and grow others in previous roles, guiding less experienced engineers through challenges so they can deliver impact
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Site Reliability to join us
- At Akeneo, engineers work across the full stack while maintaining deep expertise in their preferred discipline - whether that's reliability, frontend, or backend
- We embrace a 'you build it, you run it' philosophy, meaning you'll own features from development through production and long-term maintenance, while having the opportunity to contribute across our entire platform, both on infrastructure and application code
- This Senior Engineer role is for either our Product Modelling Experience, Automation & AI, Assets or Collaboration Impact teams, the exact team will be decided based on your performance during the general interview loop (see below)
- Reporting directly to your chosen team's Impact Owner, who is either a Senior Product Manager or an Engineering Manager, you will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product managers, designers and external stakeholders
- Technical Excellence: Design and implement robust, scalable software and infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions for complex problems (e.g., designing and implementing a new service outside of the existing monolith to handle product data enrichment, improving system scalability and performance, creating Terraform modules to automate GCP infrastructure deployment, implementing automated scaling policies)
- Impact & Customer Centricity: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship solutions to our customer problems (e.g., creating a prototype of a possible solution to customer issues after participating in a customer call, creating automated failover systems, developing playbooks for common failure scenarios)
- Code Quality & System Reliability: Improve system availability and performance, write clean, maintainable, and efficient code (e.g., refactoring a legacy module to improve code readability and reduce technical debt. Reducing service latency by 40% through caching implementation, achieving 99.99% uptime through redundancy)
- Team Work: Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers (e.g., reviewing pull requests and suggesting improvements in algorithm efficiency or code structure, suggesting improvements to monitoring configurations, collaborating on incident postmortems)
- Mentorship: Mentor software engineers and contribute to the growth of the engineering team (e.g., pairing with software engineers on complex tasks and organising knowledge-sharing sessions on best practices, training runbooks procedures, leading chaos engineering workshops)
- Debugging & Optimisation: Troubleshoot, debug, and optimise application and infrastructure performance (e.g., identifying and resolving bottlenecks in database queries to improve overall system response time, rightsizing Kubernetes clusters based on usage patterns, implementing autoscaling policies)
- Innovation: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development (e.g., researching and proposing the adoption of new technologies like GraphQL for API development, exploring AIOps tools for automated incident response, developing custom SLO monitoring solutions)
Application process
- All interviews will be conducted remotely and ideally within two weeks, depending on your availability. We are asking for a total of around six hours of your time
- 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. You will be asked to send through “Code You Are Proud Of" which will be used to validate that you are able to start the interview loop and during the technical interview to aid discussion and deep dive into decision making
- 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 be asked to bring “Code You Are Proud Of" to discuss and go deep within the 90 minutes interview with a Staff Engineer. You will also discuss how you would solve an Akeneo specific complex problem with limited knowledge and understanding. The Staff Engineer is looking to see how you think critically, expose gaps, navigate ambiguity, focus on impact and execute
- Behavioural Deep Dive: You will spend 90 minutes 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
- Contact: Marie-Anaïs Gaillard
Our take
Based in France and Boston, Akeneo is a provider of product experience management (PXM) and product information management (PIM) solutions. The platform enables businesses with products to create growth opportunities by delivering product experience.
The company is trusted by leading global brands, including PUMA, Canon USA and Giant Tiger. The appeal of Akeneo’s services is its enablement of retailers to activate product experiences across all communication channels, rather than having to manage catalogs using spreadsheets or an out-dated ERP.
In 2022, Akeneo raised further funding, which was invested in accelerating the product development roadmap and expanding its strategic partnerships. Continued investment and partnerships bring Akeneo ever closer to its goal of best serving the growing needs of modern omnichannel brands and retailers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$135m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $195.9m
Company benefits
- 🌎 Diverse, cross-cultural team
- 🎉 Annual All Staff gathering week, office parties, team offsites
- 🧳 Once a year, travel to another office location for a period of 2 weeks
- 👋 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 a smooth integration into the company
- ⏰ Flexible working hours, global home office policy
- 🧘 Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice
- 🔊 Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub..
- 💻 Choice of a Mac or a Windows laptop
- 💸 Personal remote allowance to maximize your home office environment
- 🎫 Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (ie. Meetups) or industry events
- 🧑🏫 Group and individual training opportunities
- 👨💻 Attendance at the yearly business or tech conference of your choice
Company values
- Humility - We want to become better at what we do, and we acknowledge that we are not there yet
- Innovation - We take pride in developing an open-source solution. This makes our solution powerful, open to everyone, and we are very attentive to our code quality
- Benevolence - We believe everyone is doing their best, and we commit to helping each other in a friendly way, with an ‘open door’ policy
- Openness - We love hearing new ideas and opinions. We are always excited to welcome new employees with different backgrounds who can share their experiences and challenge our status quo
- Beer - We do serious business without taking ourselves too seriously. We love to get together and share fun moments at work
Company HQ
Dervallières-Zola, Nantes, France
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Leadership
Benoit Jacquemont
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously served as CTO for Smile Group.
Fred de Gombert
(President & Co-Founder)Previously founded and acted as CEO for Manalee. Served as Pre-sales Manager & eCommerce Director for Smile.
Yoav Kutner
(Advisor & Co-Founder)Recent co-founded and acts as CEO for both MageCore and Oro. Previously co-founded and acted as CTO for both Magento and Varien.
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