Engineering Manager (VPN)

The Team The Team :

Proton VPN's mission is to bring a safer Internet to the World, where freedom of speech and access to global information are available to all.

You will be in the driving seat to accelerate our growth and our execution, which is vital for Proton VPN to keep funding the expansion of our free product in the world.

The VPN Business Unit is growing quickly, thanks to Proton VPN's rise in the consumer market and its expansion in the B2B space, with enterprises and governmental agencies seeking to secure their activities, and new partnerships opening up.

Within the VPN Business Unit, the Back-End team is growing rapidly and expanding its scope to support the evolution of Proton VPN's API, Browser Extension, to build new features and capabilities for B2B customers, and to build integrations with the other Proton's products and services. This team is cross-functional and distributed across multiple Proton offices : London, Geneva, Paris, and Barcelona.

Current Projects Extending our B2B offer with new features to continue growing in this new market

Working with partners to increase brand awareness and provide Proton VPN to new customers with minimal friction

Expand our browser extension to millions of free users

Support the products with tools designed to increase conversion and retention e.g. through a customizable notification framework built around user\'s lifecycle

Adopting new technical standards and best practices to prevent and handle service disruptions through proper planning, observability, and alerting

Ensuring our back-end scales with the business growth by reviewing our architecture, API contracts, data models, and caching layers

Tech Stack and Tools PHP / Symfony

MySQL

Redis

Typescript

React

Docker

Kubernetes

How you can have impact :

Contribute to the company’s strategic vision by aligning engineering goals with the overall business strategy

Lead strategic projects that require cross-functional input and coordination to achieve major company milestones

Establish and optimize Agile / Scrum methodologies to increase the efficiency and output of engineering teams

Drive the development and implementation of scalable architectures and infrastructures that support exponential user growth

What you will do : Work with product and engineering stakeholders to build short and long-term roadmaps with user-centric milestones

Manage each engineer's performance and career by providing actionable and timely feedback and distributing opportunities fairly across the team

Drive the hiring and onboarding of new team members by providing them with a clear plan and ensuring quick integration into our organization

Build a highly collaborative environment where opportunities are regularly discussed and everyone\'s voice is considered for improving the status quo

Promote a team of resiliency by eliminating knowledge silos and rotating scrum and project management duties across the engineers and product owners

Participate in design documents, proposals, and code reviews to unblock the team and shorten feedback loops

Job requirements : Experience leading large and complex projects as a backend engineer

Experience managing a team of engineers and coaching them on their career development

Familiarity with agile and scrum best practices

Experience breaking down large initiatives into smaller, user-centric milestones

Experience communicating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure team alignment with business objectives

Bachelor\'s or master’s degree in a relevant field of study

Even if you don’t meet all the requirements listed above, but feel you could still be a great fit, please still apply.

Why should you join Proton?

Be part of a movement - Proton is not just a product or service but a community-driven movement united by a shared vision of online freedom. Our services are open source, audited, and supported by community contributions. We give back to our community by maintaining core encryption libraries and by supporting other organizations furthering the same goals as us. Proton is free, open source, neutral, independent, and community first, while remaining financially sustainable.

Work with smart and dedicated people - Our team is diverse, collaborative, and tight-knit with people coming from all walks of life, including many of the world’s top academic institutions and organizations, such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cambridge, and ETH.

Join a strong brand - Our encrypted email service - ProtonMail - has grown to be a staple of online security and privacy. Proton has been featured in multiple popular television and film productions, such as Mr. Robot, Knives Out, Sounds of Metal, and more.

Grow with us - We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups, doubling in size every year. Our growth gives you limitless career and educational opportunities as well as the opportunity to work side-by-side with many world-leading experts in their fields.

Have your voice heard - We value your opinion and encourage you to speak up and share your ideas and thoughts. At Proton, no problem is someone else’s problem. We collectively strive to do the right thing and be the undisputed best in the world at everything we do.

Benefits – these vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours, company events and team building activities.

Proton does not accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. Proton will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited offer, even in a situation when the relevant candidate is employed by Proton.

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