Engineering Manager Front

About Fortuneo

Founded in 2000 and a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Fortuneo innovates to establish itself today as one of the main leaders in online banking and digital financial services.

Thanks to our solid expertise, the power of our brand, and its growing notoriety, we embody the online banking of tomorrow and place customer satisfaction at the heart of our actions.

Our mission? To make people love banking!

How? By meeting the essential needs of our clients in banking, finance, and insurance while embodying the values that define, unite, and federate us:

#Ambition for better #Constructive energy #Simply together

The Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group is committed to inclusion, to ensure a work environment that respects everyone's diversity. We train and raise awareness among all company stakeholders through a dedicated group inclusion strategy and rely on a community of committed employees, the inclusion ambassadors, to bring this dynamic to life and make it shine within the group.

Main Missions

The Front Engineering Manager is responsible for the front-end technological strategy of Fortuneo's assets (prospect subscription journeys, mobile application, web customer area, showcase website).

• Structure and grow the Front (Web and Mobile) development team by embodying a culture of engineering excellence.
• Guarantee the velocity and quality of customer journey delivery (Subscription, Customer Area, Showcase Website).
• Industrialize development practices (Code, CI/CD, Tests) to support the Mobile First strategy.
• Ensure permanent alignment between Product/Design ambitions and technical reality.
• Define Front development standards and manage the creation of inter-application technical foundations to pool efforts between applications.
• Ensure the management and consistency of team staffing according to priorities.

1 - Front & Mobile Technological Strategy

• Implement the mobile application redesign strategy.
• Define and enforce code standards (Clean Code, code reviews) and framework choices.
• Guarantee web performance and mobile application fluidity.

2 - Delivery & Operational Excellence Management

• Commit to delivery schedules by challenging team estimates.
• Track and define productivity metrics (Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, etc.) and remove daily blockers.
• Coordinate critical production deployments (especially iOS/Android Mobile Store releases).
• Ensure compliance with the operating budget for their scope (tools, service providers).

3 - Leadership & Team Management

• Recruit, onboard, and retain the talent (Tech Leads, Web & Mobile Developers) needed for the transformation.
• Define career paths, conduct annual reviews, and support skill development (mentoring).

4 - Industrialization & Quality (DevEx)

• Implement a robust automated testing strategy (Unit, Integration, Component, Contract, Visual, E2E, Exploratory, Manual) to secure deployments.
• Optimize Developer Experience (DevEx) by modernizing development environments and CI/CD.
• Ensure the implementation and evolution of the Design System in collaboration with the Design team.

5 - Product & Design Collaboration

• Form the Product-Design-Engineering trio at the squad level to co-build features.
• Participate in Discovery phases to validate technical feasibility and propose innovations.

6 - Interface with Architecture & Group (ASI)

• Collaborate with the Domain Lead Architect to effectively consume APIs exposed by the distribution IS.
• Provide feedback on Back-end service evolution needs to support new Front-end journeys.
• Comply with security and compliance requirements imposed by the banking context.

The Profile We're Looking For

HARD SKILLS:

• Manage the front-end layer
  • Technological Expertise (Web & Mobile)
    • Mobile Strategy: Solid experience in Mobile development (Native iOS/Android) and perfect mastery of the application lifecycle (Apple/Google Store Submission, certificate management, Beta testing, continuous delivery culture, and feature flipping).
    • Mastery of the Typescript / Node.js / React / AWS ecosystem
  • Front-End Architecture: Ability to design modular and scalable architectures.
  • Quality & Industrialization (DevEx)
    • Testing Strategy: Mastery of modern testing pyramids (Unit, Integration, Component, Contract, Visual, E2E, Exploratory, Manual).
    • Craftsmanship Culture: Practice and evangelization of Clean Code, code reviews, and development standards.
    • Design System: Ability to manage the implementation and industrialization of a Design System (Storybook, Tokens) across multiple teams.
  • Performance & Reliability
    • Web & App Performance: Obsession with performance metrics and ability to audit/optimize code.
    • Front-End Observability: Mastery of monitoring and observability tools: Realtime User Monitoring (RUM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Implementation of alerting and proactive monitoring of application health.
    • Application Security: Knowledge of Front-end security vulnerabilities and authentication best practices. Knowledge of OWASP web and mobile recommendations.
  • Front DevOps & Delivery
    • Specialized CI/CD: Expertise in automating build and deployment pipelines specific to mobile (Bitrise, ...) and Web.
    • Release Management: Mastery of progressive deployment strategies (Feature Flipping, A/B Testing, Canary Release, Progressive rollout).

SOFT SKILLS

• Pragmatism: Results and solutions-oriented rather than technological dogma.
• Resilience: Comfortable in a context of transformation and cultural change.
• Mentoring: Ability to coach, unite, and develop teams daily.

EXPERIENCE

• 10 years of experience in software development, including at least 3 years in team management (Lead Dev or EM).
• Proven experience in implementing technical and methodological standards in multi-team and hybrid contexts.
• Appreciated experience in a banking/insurance, fintech, or critical service context with strong IS constraints.
• Proven experience with mobile (Stores, app lifecycle) and Web issues.

Welcome to Fortuneo

Founded in 2000 and a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Fortuneo innovates to establish itself today as one of the main leaders in online banking and digital financial services.

Thanks to our solid expertise, the power of our brand, and its growing notoriety, we embody the online banking of tomorrow and place customer satisfaction at the heart of our actions.

Our mission? To make people love banking!

How? By meeting the essential needs of our clients in banking, finance, and insurance while embodying the values that define, unite, and federate us:

#Ambition for better #Constructive energy #Simply together

The Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group is committed to inclusion, to ensure a work environment that respects everyone's diversity. We train and raise awareness among all company stakeholders through a dedicated group inclusion strategy and rely on a community of committed employees, the inclusion ambassadors, to bring this dynamic to life and make it shine within the group.

Also...

Founded in 2000 and a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Fortuneo innovates to establish itself today as one of the main leaders in online banking and digital financial services. Thanks to our solid expertise, the power of our brand, and its growing notoriety, we embody the online banking of tomorrow and place customer satisfaction at the heart of our actions.Our mission? To make people love banking!How? By meeting the essential needs of our clients in banking, finance, and insurance while embodying the values that define, unite, and federate us: Ambition for better, Constructive energy, Simply together.

Fortuneo means:

✔️ A growing company in a constantly developing fintech market: a double reason to join us! ✔️ A committed bank (to its clients and its employees) to give meaning to finance together. ✔️ A united, passionate, and invested team, working collaboratively in a human and benevolent environment. And according to the latest internal barometer, it pays off: nearly 90% of our employees are happy at work!