Engineering Manager

**Ready for a new challenge?**

For 10 years, Swibeco has been supporting Swiss companies in valuing their employees through simple, modern and effective benefits solutions.

Founded in Switzerland, Swibeco now relies on a team of 60 committed employees across our offices in Lausanne and Zurich, united by a mission**:to provide Flexible Benefits that create real impact**.**

Swibeco has more than 9’000 corporate clients in Switzerland, including major brands such as AXA, Swissquote, FedEx/TNT, Alcon, Decathlon, Capgemini, Holcim, Sprüngli, SAP, etc.

Our strength? A perfect understanding of local issues, a human approach, and a technology designed to make a difference.

**About the role**

We are looking for an experienced **Engineering Manager** with deep architectural skills to lead and guide our cross-functional engineering team with technical direction across our back-end and frontend engineers working on web, and app platforms. You will act as both a manager and an architect, collaborating closely with other leads, engineers, product, and DevOps teams to design, build, and scale high-quality, maintainable systems. The role is based in Lausanne, reporting to the CTO.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Technical Leadership & Architecture**

- Own and evolve the architectural vision for backend services while aligning with frontend architecture (React Native, web apps) to ensure consistent, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, Quality assurance and Team leads to translate requirements into technical strategies across the stack.

- Advocate and enforce engineering best practices across teams in collaboration with the leads, including code quality, testing, security, and performance.

** Engineering Management**

- Manage, mentor, and grow engineers while providing architectural guidance and technical direction.

- Conduct regular 1:1s, set growth plans, and facilitate career development.

- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

** Delivery & Operations**

- Ensure backend services are robust, secure, and scalable by supporting your team in design and implementation decisions.

- Support the adoption of modern DevOps practices, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Sentry.

- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives to drive end-to-end delivery of new features or architectural changes.

** Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support**

- Act as a bridge between the different teams, ensuring alignment on API design, data models, and system interactions.

- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization with product stakeholders.

- Contribute to incident management, root cause analysis, and production support coordination.

**Requirements**:
**Who we are looking for**

**Technical Skills**:

- 5+ years of engineering experience, including deep expertise in backend systems (PHP Symfony, and/or similar languages/frameworks).

- Solid knowledge of REST API architecture and modern frontend-backend integration patterns.

- Working familiarity with modern frontend stacks (React, React Native). You don’t have to code React every day, but you should understand their architecture and needs.

- Experience with scalable systems in a containerized, cloud-native environment (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD).

- Solid database skills with SQL databases (MySQL or similar).

- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Sentry, Datadog ) and modern monitoring practices.

** Management & Leadership Skills**:

- Experience managing and mentoring engineers, ideally across multiple disciplines (backend, frontend).

- Strong technical decision-making skills and an ability to align diverse engineering teams around a shared vision.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with fluency in English.

- Proven ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional environments.

- Strong advocate for Agile principles and iterative development.

** Soft Skills**:

- High attention to code quality, scalability, and maintainability.

- Analytical mindset and solution-oriented approach.

- Passion for delivering high-quality, user-focused products.

- Ability to balance hands-on technical guidance with team leadership responsibilities.

**Benefits**:
**What we offer**

- A dynamic and supportive scaleup environment where you can make a meaningful impact.

- A professional and stimulating workplace that fosters growth and development.

- Meal and Mobility allowance on your Swibeco Card.

- Gifts for birthdays/jubilees/Christmas.

- Permanent discounts for your daily savings on over 150 leading brands.

- A true team spirit, flexible working conditions, and modern office facilities.

- Free coffee and beverages to keep you energized

**Job Information**:
Date Opened
- 11/04/2025

Job Type
- Full time

Industry
- Technology

Work Experience
- 5+ years

City
- Lausanne

State/Province
- Vaud (