Job Description
Shift delivers AI agents that transform insurers’ most critical work. By combining deep industry expertise and unmatched data resources, Shift provides proven results that have earned the trust of hundreds of the world’s leading insurers. Our insurance-grade AI is accurate, explainable, and secure—empowering human experts to move with unmatched speed, total confidence, and a renewed focus on the people they serve.
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Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry through our SaaS platform. We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.
Learn more at www.shift-technology.com
Our Engineering team lies at the core of the value we offer to our customers. We solve complex problems by working not only within our squads, but also by working collaboratively with other teams across the organization. If you are excited by solving complex technical challenges, this is the right place for you!
Our tech stack includes .Net core (C#), Python, Azure, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, and more. If you are excited by solving complex technical challenges, this is the right place for you!
What Your Team Does
As an Engineering Manager for our Documents squad in Paris, you will lead a small and very collaborative team of 4 people. In this role, you will act as a technical manager, balancing architecture design, critical technical choices, and hands-on implementation. Your mission is to drive engineering excellence. You will also focus on supporting the development of engineers within the squad while expanding your own management capabilities.
What Your Impact Looks Like
At Shift, we value ownership from day one. In this role, you will:
- Drive Technical Architecture: You will design robust software architectures and make critical technical choices for the squad.
- Implement Solutions: You will jump in and write code to solve complex technical challenges alongside your small team.
- Mentor and Develop: You will mentor software engineers within your squad, fostering a culture of learning and continuous growth.
- Simplify Designs: You will simplify complex technical structures to improve the maintainability, usability, and reliability of our framework.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: You will partner closely with product management and other teams to align technical strategies with business objectives.
- Deliver Outcomes: You will take ownership of planning and delivering complex technical products, ensuring high-quality results.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
We are looking for a Shifter who is…
- Code-Savvy in C#: You have extensive hands-on experience in software development, including significant expertise in C# - if you’re more a Java expert but willing to evolve in a Microsoft environment, we might still consider it!
- An Experienced Lead: You have at least 1 prior experience mentoring or managing small teams as a Team Lead or Manager looking to grow your leadership path.
- Growth-Minded: You possess a strong willingness to test and learn, adaptability, and an appetite for change.
- An Architectural Thinker: You are skilled at providing technical direction, evaluating trade-offs, and making sound technical decisions.
- Bilingual: You are a fluent English speaker, and having a command of French is a strong asset for our Paris office.
- Collaborative: You have strong cross-functional skills to partner effectively with stakeholders across product and engineering teams.
Recruitment process
- Talent Acquisition interview
- Hiring Manager interview (Technical & Managerial)
- Technical interview with a Senior Tech Leader
- Peer Manager interview with an Engineering manager
- Final round at our Paris Office with a few stakeholders
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To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight:
- Flexible remote and hybrid working options
- Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
- Multiple Learning and Development opportunities, including Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Mental health benefits
- 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)
Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice positions may receive some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.
At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria.
Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
Please be aware of scammers and only trust correspondence that comes from emails ending in “shift-technology.com”. We will never do initial outreach to you via Whatsapp/Text/SMS, never ask for banking information or personal identification numbers (ex. Social Security Number) as part of our recruitment process.
Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology.
