VP of Software Engineering

Role

You will be responsible for turning the company’s technical and strategic vision into concrete execution. You will report to the CEO and ensure that the engineering organization delivers with high quality, satisfying both the long‑term company strategy and the customers. You will manage and support Team Leads who oversee their own multi‑disciplinary software development teams. Provide guidance, structure, and coordination across teams to achieve objectives and collaborate with Operations, HR, Finance, Marketing, and CRM to maintain coherence between technical execution and company priorities.

Main Responsibilities

Leadership & Organizational Support

• Lead, mentor, and support Team Leads and senior engineers across multiple teams.
• Build a cohesive engineering organization with clear communication, priorities, and accountability.
• Define and improve engineering processes: planning, delivery, documentation, CI/CD, reviews, and incident handling.
• Foster an environment of autonomy, responsibility, and continuous improvement.

Alignment with Strategy

• Translate business and technical strategy into actionable engineering goals.
• Ensure alignment between company priorities and engineering capacity.
• Help balance innovation (research initiatives) with productisation and delivery.
• Provide technical input for roadmap discussions and resource planning.

Locations

France or UK

What we offer

• Nice offices in the centre of Paris
• Flexibility to work remotely
• International team with different nationalities
• Amazing health insurance, fully covered by Tarides for you and your family
• Gym subscription & wellness activities
• Continuous training programs (language, feedback, time management, remote work …)
• Regular events with the whole team (Monthly All‑Hands meeting, monthly team‑building event, …)

Process

If shortlisted, you’ll go through three online interviews: an initial conversation with HR, a discussion with our CEO, and a final meeting with the Team Leads — a chance to connect with your future team and get a sense of how we work together.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We strive to create a representative, inclusive, and friendly team because we recognize that diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds foster a better workplace.

Complementary information

• Contract type: full‑time
• Starting date: ASAP

Profile required

Profile

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including several years in engineering management or leadership roles
• Experience leading or supporting engineering managers (team leads) in a distributed, multicultural setup
• Strong understanding of modern architectures, cloud infrastructure, and sustainable software practices
• Familiarity with open‑source development models
• Able to connect technical goals with business and organisational realities
• Excellent communication skills in English (working language)

Personal Qualities

• Calm and pragmatic leadership style
• Skilled at building trust and supporting autonomy
• Strong organisational awareness — able to see the whole system, not just individual teams
• Balanced between structure and flexibility
• Respectful communicator, able to connect technical and non‑technical perspectives

Company description

Tarides is an international software company with offices in Cambridge (UK), Paris (France), and Chennai (India), founded in 2018 by pioneers of systems and functional programming. We have a worldwide presence with collaborators working remotely from the US, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and across Europe. We have a solid academic background with connections to the University of Cambridge, Inria, and IIT Madras. Our diverse team of 40+ people performs groundbreaking innovation, feature development, and crucial maintenance of OCaml‑based projects.Tarides was previously part of Station F’s Founder program in 2018 and was selected for the “Concours d’Innovation i‑Lab,” organised by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation in partnership with Bpifrance.Tarides was also recognised during the FIC (International Cybersecurity Forum) 2020 fair, the leading European event on cybersecurity. These awards acknowledge the high quality solutions developed by Tarides and emphasise the interest they have gained from the cybersecurity community.In 2022, OCaml Labs (a spin‑out from the University of Cambridge) and Segfault Systems (a spin‑out from IIT‑Madras) both joined Tarides, aligning towards a shared goal: empowering developers, communities, and organisations to adopt OCaml as their primary programming experience by providing training, expertise, and development services.