Engineering Manager

About Livestorm

Livestorm is the all-in-one video communication platform for companies looking to implement a powerful video communication strategy.

Founded in 2016 Livestorm enables companies to promote host and analyze their online events. Were building the future of unified video communication: an all-in-one video communication platform that connects to your tools and lives in your browser.

Livestorm has been built with ease-of-use in mind. We serve companies of all sizes from startups to Fortune500. Shopify Honda Oracle Spendesk Front Sephora or Revolut trust Livestorm to organize their meetings webinars or online events.

Here are our core values:

• Resourcefulness: We go that extra mile in the most efficient way.

• Curiosity: We have interest in whatever is happening with the other teams.

• Humility: We strive to remove the ego from the equation to gain perspective.

• Ownership: We go from a-z and to put things in motion own our wins and fails.

• Transparency: We share the good and the bad alike.

Mission

Own thesustainable deliveryandtechnical excellenceof a crossfunctional product squad. Partner with the Product Manager to turn strategy into predictable outcomes for customers and the business.

Scope & Reporting

• Team: 58 engineers within a product squad (with peers in product design data).

• Reports to: VP of Engineering.

• Location: Europe-first remote.

What youll own (outcomes)

• Predictable delivery:Clear plans and commitments; delivery variance within agreed thresholds; minimal rollover.

• Quality & reliability:Defect/leakage rates SLOs change failure rate mean time to recovery.

• Flow & efficiency:Lead time for changes deployment frequency WIP limits respected.

• Customer impact:Teamlevel product metrics (e.g. activation adoption retention) agreed with PM.

• Team health:Engagement retention hiring skills growth.

Responsibilities

Delivery & Execution

• Drive planning sequencing and execution for the squad; make tradeoffs explicit and timebox discovery/validation.

• Remove blockers fast; coordinate dependencies across teams; hold crisp datadriven status.

• Establish and evolve pragmatic agile practices to maintainsustainable pace.

Technical Leadership (handson)

• Set the engineering bar (architecture code health testing observability security).

• Perform code and design reviews; pair andcontribute code when it materially derisks or accelerates.

• Guide architectural decisions; keep tech debt visible and deliberately managed with the PM.

Product Partnership

• Coown squad strategy with the PM: clarify problem framing success metrics and prioritisation.

• Balance discovery vs. delivery; instrument features; ensure learnings flow back into roadmap decisions.

People & Team

• Coach and grow engineers through regular 1:1s feedback and growth plans; run fair timely performance reviews.

• Address underperformance with clarity and compassion; run PIPs when needed.

• Hire barraising talent; partner with recruiting; design and run structured interviews; ensure excellent onboarding.

• Foster an inclusive psychologically safe environment; promote knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Operations & Risk

• Track and publish team metrics (delivery quality flow impact) and use them for continuous improvement.

• Ensure compliance with security privacy and regulatory standards relevant to the squads domain.

Requirements:

At Livestorm we believe that diversitys got talent! We are committed to building an inclusive company culture in which a diverse mix of talented people will feel proud to join and engage. Our goal is to ensure that every Stormie feels valued and has the opportunity to thrive. Ready to apply We are ready to meet you! All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

What great looks like

• The squadpredictably shipscustomer value while improving code health.

• Engineers feelenabled and challenged; hiring raises the bar; newcomers are productive within weeks.

• Architectural decisions arepurposefuland bias to simplicity; incidents are rare and blamelessly learned from.

• The PM and EM operate asone leadership pairwith shared goals and transparent tradeoffs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading product engineering teams (typically 35 years EM; 710 years total in software).

• Strong technical depth in our stack or adjacent technologies; able to review and contribute production code.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering outcomes through others in a sustainable way.

• Proficiency with modern delivery practices (CI/CD trunkbased dev testing strategy observability incident management).

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across engineering product design and gotomarket.

Nice to have

• Experience operating userfacing highavailability services at scale.

• Prior handson work improving activation/adoption/retention metrics with a PM/Design partner.

• Experience building teams across multiple locations/time zones.

Learn More

• Review our Engineering Principles to see if you align with our core values.

Benefits :

• Eat well: You get a monthly stipen of restaurant tickets for the amount of 9 per workday (Swile ex Lunchr) covered at 50% or the equivalent for non-France residents.

• Have flexibility: We offer flexible working hours and stipends for coworking spaces and home-office materials.

• Be reimbursed for transportation: **** Personal transportation costs can be reimbursed up to 500 per year with the Forfait mobilité durable.

• Spend time together for special events: We host monthly afterworks activities on and off site and team offsites twice a year.

• Enjoy leisure activities thanks to our CSE: Sports or cultural activities are covered and preferential rates via Leeto.

• And of course from all the essentials : Quality health insurance (Alan)) 50% of the transport subscription is paid by Livestorm and eveything necessary for your daily life (goodies supplies resources...) is provided.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But well let you in on a secret: theres no such thing as a perfect candidate. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.