Staff Engineer, Akeneo
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macOS
Linux
GSuite
JIRA
Slack
Notion
Senior and Expert level
London
Paris
Product Experience Management solutions
Open for applications
Product Experience Management solutions
201-500 employees
B2BMarketingSaaSSales
Open for applications
Salary not provided
macOS
Linux
GSuite
JIRA
Slack
Notion
Senior and Expert level
London
Paris
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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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)
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 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
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 into accelerating the product development roadmap and expansion of its strategic partnerships. Continued investment and support brings 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: $196m
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)Previously served as CTO for Smile Group.
Fred de Gombert
(CEO)Previously founded and acted as CEO for Manalee. Served as Pre-sales Manager & eCommerce Director for Smile.
Nicolas Dupont
(CPO)Previously acted as Technical Project Manager for Smile and Technical Project Manager for My-Store SA.
Yoav Kutner
(Advisor)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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