Engineering Manager

AQEMIA

About AQEMIA AQEMIA is a drug invention company dedicated to creating entirely new medicines to address major unmet medical needs. At the core of our mission is QEMI, our proprietary molecule-invention platform, which uniquely combines cutting-edge science with advanced technology. Powered by physics-based modeling, statistical mechanics, and generative AI, QEMI allows our teams to design novel drug candidates from first principles.   What makes AQEMIA different is our commitment to true innovation: our research is dedicated to the invention of new molecular entities, not the refinement of existing ones. We focus on inventing never-before-seen molecules, without relying on experimental data, and advancing them into a growing pipeline of proprietary programs and strategic partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies.   Our most advanced preclinical programs are currently in vivo optimization, targeting diseases still waiting for effective treatments, offering our teams the opportunity to work on science that can make a real difference in people’s lives.   For more information, visit AQEMIA.com, our WTTJ Page, and our LinkedIn.    About our Team AQEMIA brings together a diverse, multidisciplinary team of 80+ professionals based in Paris and London. Our scientists and engineers, including chemists, physicists, machine learning experts, and software engineers, work side by side to push the boundaries of early-stage drug discovery.   This close collaboration across disciplines is central to our approach, enabling us to tackle complex scientific challenges from first principles and translate cutting-edge ideas into novel therapeutic candidates. At AQEMIA, team members are encouraged to contribute their expertise, learn from one another, and play an active role in shaping the future of drug invention.   About our Engineering Department The Engineering team (~12 people) builds and scales the technical foundations that power Aqemia’s drug discovery engine.   Bringing together expertise across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), and scientific computing, the team designs and operates robust, secure, and high-performance platforms that enable Aqemia’s scientific and AI teams to experiment, train, deploy, and run models at scale.   Their work spans data infrastructure, scientific compute systems, cloud operations, orchestration, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, and platform scalability. By transforming cutting-edge research into reliable and scalable systems, the team accelerates the discovery of new medicines while ensuring operational excellence and an outstanding developer experience. As Engineering Manager of the Compute team, you will lead a team of 5 engineers responsible for building and evolving the compute platform that powers AQEMIA's scientific simulations, machine learning workloads, and large-scale experimentation. You will combine strong engineering leadership with technical credibility to grow a high-performing team while delivering reliable and scalable platform capabilities.

Doctolib

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join Doctolib's Automation Platform (AUTOP) team, which empowers all Doctolib engineers to build, test, and deploy software with confidence and speed. As part of the Platform organization, Autop’s mission is to build and maintain the automation infrastructure and developer tools that enable our engineering teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently. Every feature shipped at Doctolib — from appointment booking to teleconsultation to AI-powered clinical tools — flows through AUTOP's automation infrastructure. We're the platform behind the platform. When product teams ship faster, safer, and with more confidence, it's because AUTOP built the rails they run on. AUTOP (Automation Platform) is responsible for critical developer-facing systems including: CI/CD automation, testing infrastructure (unit, integration, E2E, contract, visual regression), local and ephemeral development environments, release management, dependency management, and developer productivity tooling.    WHAT YOU WILL DO As the Engineering Manager for AUTOP, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to: PEOPLE LEADERSHIP * Build and lead a high-performing team of 6 engineers who are passionate about developer productivity; * Create a culture where engineers own outcomes, not tasks — where platform adoption and developer satisfaction are the north stars; * Recruit, mentor, and retain top platform engineering talent in a competitive market; * Conduct impactful 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that help engineers reach their full potential. TECHNICAL STRATEGY & EXECUTION * Define and drive the technical vision for your team's domain (CI/CD, testing infrastructure, developer environments, or release automation); * Make high-impact technical decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term sustainability and scale; * Set the bar for automation, quality, reliability, and security — your systems must be highly reliable because 800 engineers+ depending on them daily; * Champion a "Platform as a Product" mindset: treat internal developers as customers, measure adoption and satisfaction, iterate based on feedback; * Partner strategically with product teams, Infrastructure Platform, and Applicative Platform to solve cross-cutting challenges; * Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity metrics: build times, deployment frequency, test reliability, time-to-production… supporting Doctolib teams to monitor their metrics (DORA, performance, costs, etc). IMPACT & INFLUENCE * Be a visible technical leader across the organization — your team's work enables everyone else's success; * Influence engineering culture: establish best practices, contribute to technical strategy beyond your team; * Navigate ambiguity and lead through influence, not authority — platform adoption requires trust and advocacy, not mandates.   About our tech environment * Our automation platform supports a hybrid architecture: a large Ruby on Rails monolith and an expanding ecosystem of modern microservices (Java, Kotlin, TypeScript) * We maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, testing frameworks across multiple languages, and infrastructure-as-code solutions * Our systems handle thousands of CI builds daily, manage comprehensive test suites across multiple languages, and manage deployments across multiple environments for 200+ development teams * Our stack includes: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and various testing frameworks * We intentionally leverage AI to improve developer productivity and reliability, in a sustainable manner .   WHO YOU ARE Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply. * 6+ years of software engineering and 3+ years managing technical teams — you have a proven experience and know what great engineering looks like * Deep platform engineering expertise: CI/CD, developer tooling, automation, testing infrastructure, or internal platforms * Track record of building "Platform as a Product" — you've driven adoption, measured impact, and iterated based on developer feedback * Strong stakeholder management — you can influence without authority, build coalitions, and navigate complex organizational dynamics * Proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership — you can code-review a Terraform module and coach a report through a difficult conversation * Fluent in English and comfortable influencing across a multi-country organization NOW IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC IF YOU: * Are passionate about developer experience and understand what makes engineers productive and happy * Have an entrepreneurial mindset — comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and building the plane while flying it * Have experience managing distributed or remote teams across time zones * Have background in healthcare, regulated industries, or mission-critical systems where reliability and security are non-negotiable   WHAT WE OFFER * Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children * 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT * Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care * Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy * Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth €8.50 per working day, with €4.50 covered by Doctolib * A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class * 50% reimbursement of your public transport subscription * Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave * For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support * Relocation support in case of international mobility * Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training THE INTERVIEW PROCESS * Recruiter Interview * System Design Interview * Behavioral Interview * Engineering Manager Case Study * At least one reference check JOB DETAILS * Permanent position * Full Time * Based in Levallois-Perret * Hybrid position 3 days/week in the office * Start date: As soon as possible   If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!  At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.  Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights.

Doctolib

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the OREO (Observability Reliability Engineering Obsession) team in Platform Engineering. As an Engineering Manager, your mission will be to lead the Reliability & Observability team and drive the evolution of Doctolib's observability platform, supporting the exponential growth of Doctolib services while building and empowering a world-class SRE team. Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams. You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are responsible for shaping Doctolib's observability strategy and ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning with a particular focus on building organizational capabilities around logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. Your team also owns and operates critical transversal services that enable secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization, including HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure as code. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:   People Leadership: * Lead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression * Create a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team * Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations * Recruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values Technical Strategy: * Partner with SREs and senior engineers to define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting * Own the strategy and evolution of critical transversal services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise * Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives * Ensure alignment between team objectives and broader engineering and business goals * Advocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience Operational Excellence: * Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to the incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement * Ensure high availability and reliability of transversal services that are critical to the entire engineering organization * Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues Cross-functional Collaboration: * Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with product and platform needs * Partner with security and infrastructure teams to evolve secrets management and IaC practices across the organization * Represent the OREO team in engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and strategic planning sessions * Foster strong partnerships with software engineering teams to improve instrumentation quality and adoption of observability best practices ABOUT OUR TECH ENVIRONMENT * Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components. * Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native. * We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here! WHO YOU ARE Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply. * You have at least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (preferably AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based) * You have 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams) * You have deep understanding of observability tooling and architecture (Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog) * You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and secrets management systems (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) * You have proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions Now it would be fantastic if you: * Have experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments * Have background in designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines * Have hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise in production environments * Have hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby) * Have experience driving cultural and technical transformations WHAT WE OFFER * Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children * ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib * Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care * For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support * Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy * Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class * Up to 14 days of RTT * A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class * Lunch voucher with Swile card THE INTERVIEW PROCESS * 30-min phone screen with a Tech Recruiter * 1h30 technical interview (SRE System Design & Architecture) * 1h15 behavioral interview (Leadership & People Management) * 1h30 Engineering Management case study (team scenarios, prioritization, and conflict resolution) * 1h manager interview with Senior Engineering Leadership * At least one reference check JOB DETAILS * Permanent position * Full-time * Levallois-Perret, France * Start date: as soon as possible If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights.