Engineering Manager, fabriq

• You have managed an engineering team of product engineers/software engineers for at least 2 years
• You are at ease with the full management toolkit: career conversations, performance management, structured 1:1s, feedback culture, conflict resolution. You have already managed people who are technically stronger than you on their domain and you know how to give them feedback that actually helps
• You have hired engineers : interviewing, closing
• You have been close to a Product Manager before not in a service relationship, but as a true partner. You enjoy designing solutions together, arbitrating tech versus product, owning the roadmap as a duo
• Technical foundations still alive
• You are a senior engineer who chose management. You can still walk into a code review and add real value
• To apply for this role, you must have:
• Experience as a software engineer (full-stack ideally), with the ability to read, review, and reason about systems
• A strong mastery of software engineering fundamentals (architecture, performance, scalability, testing, reliability) with a real understanding of what scaling pain looks like in production
• A pragmatic balance between technical depth and shipping reality
• A interest in code quality as a prerequisite for sustainable speed
• Experience with software craftsmanship practices (TDD, DDD, Extreme Programming, etc.) is a plus
• You are not a micromanager. You trust senior people and unlock them
• You are comfortable in remote-first environments and you don’t need everyone in the same room to lead
• You are highly curious and constantly learning
• You are autonomous, self-driven, and comfortable operating with limited guidance
• You are able to question yourself, accept feedback, and continuously improve your approach
• You enjoy collaborating and helping improve the way a team works
• We see AI as a force multiplier for software craftsmanship and team performance: faster feedback loops, accelerated learning, higher bar on code quality and decision-making
• We are looking for an EM who:
• Is more than comfortable with AI tools and uses them daily
• Is enthusiastic about AI and curious about its fast-evolving capabilities
• Has already understood how AI can improve productivity, code quality, problem-solving, and decision-making within a team
• Wants to stay at the forefront of how AI is transforming software engineering management
• You must be able to work fluently in English (international customers)

Desirable

• Fabriq is looking for a Engineering Manager to lead the Enterprise BU, the team that makes Fabriq usable at very large scale by our biggest industrial customers : Plant Managers, OpEx Directors, COOs of multi-site organizations
• The Enterprise BU’s mission is to help manufacturing organizations deploy Fabriq at scale, so they can standardize and improve their operational excellence practices across all their sites
• You will own the engineering side of the BU: 4 senior product engineers (3 already in place David, Fabrice, Yoan plus 2 you will hire), a strong PM partner, and a roadmap focused on serious scaling challenges (multi-tenant, performance at scale, dashboards on aggregated data, data migrations, governance, on-prem)
• You will replace Bertrand, our VP of Engineering, who has been holding this role on top of his other responsibilities. The expectation is that within 6 months, he can fully step away from EM duties and you carry the BU
• This is a Product engineering role: there is no dedicated product designer in the BU. You and Margaux design the solutions together. The engineers you manage are senior & autonomous, you are here to raise the bar and unlock scale
• ≈ 50% management : 1:1s, career, performance, hiring (you will run the 2 hires), delivery rituals, monthly cycles, capacity planning, weekly sync with the other EMs
• ≈ 50% tech : code review, architecture review, doc review, technical backup on hard problems. Not coding daily, but capable of going deep when it matters
• Back-end: REST API historically Django, new code in Deno (TypeScript). Database AWS Aurora (Postgres). Drizzle as a lightweight ORM on Deno. Honeycomb + Sentry to understand what happens at scale
• Front-end: Vue.js single-page app, partially in TypeScript (we migrate as we go). Mobile app in Vue.js + Capacitor. Continuous deployment via Cloudflare Pages, with preview URLs on every PR
• Infrastructure: containers on AWS (ECS / Fargate today, EKS in the future), entirely Terraformed via CDKTF in TypeScript. A small set of customers run on dedicated infrastructure
• Coding style: TypeScript inspired by data-oriented programming

• Screening (30 min) : Flavie (Tech Recruiter)
• Management Fit : Bertrand (VP Eng) or Denis (Chief of Staff Product). 3 management situations to prepare in advance, restitution live
• Technical interview (1h30) : with a Fabriq EM. Architecture, code review, scaling discussion
• Meet the team : 2-3 ICs of the Enterprise BU + PM Enterprise
• Founder interviews : 2 x 30 min with Octave and François