Interim Engineering Manager - Freelance mission 6 to 12 months

About

Swan is Europe’s embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies—like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca. Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They’re on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows, there’s still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.

It’s a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn’t just record financial activity — it should run it.

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Statement of Work

Team Management:

• Manage and lead a team of Software Engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members.


• Drive people management initiatives, including hiring, performance evaluation, career development, and employee retention.


• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Technical Leadership:

• Be accountable for your team's projects, make technical decisions, and solve complex challenges in a demanding technical environment with a reactive architecture.


• Partner with product managers to build and refine the team’s roadmap.


• Ensure your team follows company technical standards and architectural patterns effectively.


• Monitor system performance in your domain to maintain the quality of service despite rapidly growing loads.


• Establish and enforce architectural standards and ensure proper implementation of automated testing.

Delivery:

• Be responsible for successful roadmap execution, providing clear visibility and reporting for tracking progress at scale.


• Lead cross-team and cross-domain collaborations, ensuring effective communication among all stakeholders.


• Maintain operational excellence in production and manage incident responses effectively.

✨ Our technical environment:

Programming Languages: TypeScript (NestJS, fp-ts) 

Databases: PostgreSQL

Data Streaming: Kafka ; GraphQL

Containerization & Cloud Platforms: Kubernetes ; AWS

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have at least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer and at least 2 years of experience as a manager.


• You have strong leadership and team management skills


• You have worked in complex environments involving product, QA, security, and platform teams.


• Proficiency in software development and a solid understanding of system architecture.


• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure tools like Docker and Kubernetes.


• Familiarity with coding standards, security protocols, and QA/testing processes.


• You are familiar with automated testing and continuous integration.


• You have experience with distributed systems or microservices architecture.


• You have worked with GraphQL and Kafka.


• You have strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to align engineering goals with business priorities.


• Fluent in English

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions


• An interview with our Engineering Director


• Design System interview


• VP Engineering interview