Engineering Director, Swan
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Office located in Rue Saint-Maur, Paris
Embedded finance platform
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Embedded finance platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
Office located in Rue Saint-Maur, Paris
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower all kinds of digital companies to transform their UX and start embedding banking features within minutes.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as an Engineering Director or similar leadership role in a technology company (start-up, scale-up, or another fast-paced work environment)
- Strong technical background and experience with various software development methodologies. Deep proficiency in programming languages, scalable system architectures, and cloud platforms
- Significant professional experience in leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Strong leadership and organizational management skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization. Capacity to create and drive strategies for initiatives while aligning engineering goals with company-wide objectives
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on operational excellence
- Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door
What the job involves
- Swan, a leading technology company, is seeking a highly skilled Engineering Director to join our team
- As we continue to scale, we’re looking for an experienced Engineering Director to lead our engineering organization, foster collaboration, and drive strategic impact across the company
- As an Engineering Director, you will lead our Payments squads, composed of multiple Engineering Managers and Software Engineers
- Set strategies for significant initiatives and champion investments in new strategic areas
- Tie current investments to broader company strategies and identify new investment opportunities
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional peers to align goals and maximize organizational value
- Influence company-wide strategies, including prioritization, resourcing, and headcount planning, in collaboration with the VP and CTO
- Define and enforce engineering best practices that align with industry standards for compliance and security
- Position Engineering as a strategic growth partner, ensuring strong business alignment
- Achieve operational scalability and reliability through operational excellence
- Balance cost-efficiency with forward-thinking innovation
- Oversee project and program management by allocating resources and managing dependencies effectively
- Translate high-level projects into actionable engineering deliverables
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business teams to align priorities and manage expectations
- Partner with QA to balance delivery speed and output quality, reduce production defects, and document planned changes
- Ensure on-time delivery of milestones, identify risks early, and implement mitigation strategies
- Drive execution efficiency while meeting regulatory and security expectations
- Maintain high user satisfaction through issue resolution, post-mortems, and concrete follow-ups
- Manage and lead your Engineering team, providing guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members
- Drive people management initiatives, including hiring, performance evaluation, career development, and employee retention
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team
- Swan's Engineering department consists of almost 75 people organized into different units, including two Engineering Directors and several experienced Engineering Managers
- The engineers work closely with the product department, which is composed of about 20 team members, including Product Managers, two VP Products, and a Chief Product Officer
Application process
- We usually respond within a week
- A 30-minute video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career aspirations, and answer any questions you may have
- An interview with our VP of Engineering
- A technical interview with a peer
- An interview with a member of the Product team
- An interview with a member of the Executive Committee
Our take
Swan believes its services can transform a business by adding a financial layer. Swan’s APIs enable European companies to integrate banking services into their own digital product: embedded finance.
While not alone in the fintech industry, the company stands out by squarely targeting SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other fintechs with its embedded finance products. The company, offering an end-to-end, integrated and multi-product experience coupled with the fact it owns the payment and fraud risk, has garnered the attention of impressive clients including Agricap, Carrefour, Pennylane and Ride.
The company has invested into accelerating its expansion into the European market by developing more banking features that are specialized for a variety of local EU markets and enhancing the platform’s functionality with a self-service offering. Swan is gaining momentum with its expansion efforts and is well set to remain on this path.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$38.1m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$16.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $59.8m
Company benefits
- ESOP packages available
- Flexible remote policy
- Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib
- Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax
- The best health insurance
- We provide a Swile card to cover your meal on work days
- Extra holidays (RTT)
Company values
- Be human: Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It’s all about integrity and doing the right thing
- Ambition: We’re in this for the long game. We want to transform the entire market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions!
- Collaboration: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. We love to challenge others’ ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win
- “Move fast, don’t break things”: If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all
- Make everything simple: Simplicity
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, France
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Leadership
Nicolas Benady
(CEO)Previously co-founded Antelop Solutions and, earlier, PriceMinister. Acted as Product Manager for French Market of VISA Europe, President of Limonetik, IT Project Manager for AXA Cessions, and was a Team Member for Endless Winter.
Nicolas Saison
(COO)Previous experience as Vice President of Product for Payboost, Digital IT Manager for AXA France, Payment Project Director for Limonetik, and as a Developer and Risk Manager for AXA.
Mathieu Breton
(CTO)Previously co-founded and acted as CTO for JS-Republic. Experience as Senior Software Engineer for Xebia France, Software Engineer for BT Global Services, and Web Developer for éQuin gestion.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Swan
- Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. When it comes to recruitment, we're interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan's success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area. We are actively seeking partners who can help us to always strive to be a more supportive and welcoming company for all. Swan is proud to have launched a partnership with 50intech to boost our diversity and inclusion efforts
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