Data Engineering Manager (H/F) - CDI - Paris

Since 2015, papernest has been transforming the way people manage their contracts, making subscription, management, and switching simple through one smart, intuitive platform.

We have supported more than 2 million customers across France, Spain, and Italy. Along the way, we have continued to invest in new verticals, establishing papernest as a high-performing, innovative, and competitive scale-up in a fast-growing market.

With over 900 employees, we are strengthening our position as a European market leader.

We’re looking for a leader to manage our data engineering team. At papernest, tech, data and business are fully connected. The team is involved in providing the whole company with a performing, fast, and relevant data platform, product, and pipeline. In constant contact with the business and technical team, you’ll be leading the strategy and the delivery of your team. You’ll report to the Head of Data, with constant interactions with members of the comex.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership and strategy:
  • Define the roadmap and key projects for your team, along with your product manager
  • Manage complex projects and relationships, with numerous stakeholders (C-levels, other engineering teams, business stakeholders, etc.)
  • Craft the AI strategy of the data department
• Ensure technical excellence:
  • Maintain an excellent level of service (99.9% SLA) on a pipeline with more than 10 millions of events every day
  • Take key architecture decisions with the help of your tech leads, while ensuring global consistency through your relationships with the engineering architecture team
  • Define and refine specs of key projects
  • With the product manager, ensure your sprints are prioritized, sized, and delivered
• Management:
  • You’ll lead and structure your team of 8 engineers based in Paris and Barcelona
  • Manage recruitment of new members
  • Training and career development of your team, as well as management of rituals
• Delivery & quality
  • Monitor and challenge team delivery
  • Ensure global quality by implementing processes and code reviewing
  • Track debt creation and lead debt repayment strategy and delivery

Project Examples

• Transcribe tens of thousand calls every day
• Call transcript enrichment platform with AI
• Develop an open address autocompletion system

Our Stack And Tools

• Backend : Python (POO, FastAPI, asyncio, …), ML Flow
• Infra : Docker, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, DynamoDb
• AI: Scaleway, MIG partitioning, Speech to Text, NER, Cursor
• Others : Airflow, Grafana, Redis, EventBridge & SQS

Qualifications

About you :

• 8+ years of experience in backend or software engineering using Python
• Previous Management Experience of a mid-size team
• Experience in designing and implementing a data engineering architecture
• Experience in setting up self‑managed infrastructure (AI architecture is a plus)
• Good communication skills, because you’ll discuss a lot with many stakeholders
• Comfortable in a fast‑pace environment
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in French is a plus

But Also

• You’re curious, always looking out for new technologies
• You want to see your team members thrive
• You have the ambitious to build something impactful

Your manager will be Michel, Head of Data.

What we offer :

• Grow in an international and inclusive environment: Everyone has their place at papernest! With over 46 different nationalities, it's not unusual here to start your sentence in French and finish it in English or en español.
• Compensation: You’ll receive a Business Creator Share Warrants (BSPCE) package upon joining, according to the company’s current policy.
• Perks: As a home insurance provider and supplier of green electricity and gas, we offer great deals to our employees—because our perks shouldn't be reserved just for our customers!