Senior Engineering Manager
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Job description
Senior Engineering Manager to lead a mobile-focused engineering team on one of Proton's upcoming products, joining the engineering leadership team and turning technical strategy into execution.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Paris, France
- Pay
- EUR 83,000 – 135,000 / year
What you'll do
- Lead a team on one of Proton's upcoming products
- Help turn technical strategy into execution
- Hire and develop engineering teams
- Balance speed, quality, and high engineering standards in a fast-paced environment
What we're looking for
- Experience leading and growing engineering teams of 10+ engineers in a fast-paced product environment
- Proven success managing fully remote and/or distributed engineering teams, with strong operational and communication practices
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product and Design on strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution
- Strong technical foundation in mobile engineering, with deep expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and/or Rust
- Hands-on technical leader with experience in mobile architecture, debugging, release management, app performance, and engineering trade-offs
- Experience building and scaling consumer mobile products with 1M+ monthly active users (MAU)
- A track record of delivering measurable impact, with clear examples of improving metrics such as user growth, retention, release cadence, product quality, reliability, engineering productivity, or team effectiveness
- Experience operating in a high-velocity mobile development environment, with a strong focus on release predictability, engineering excellence, app quality, and disciplined execution
- Proton is an office-first company; expect to spend most of your time in the office
Nice to have
- Direct exposure to features such as presence, channels, notifications, sync, low-latency messaging, or engagement loops
- Track record improving release cadence, crash rate, ANR rate, app-store review quality, or release confidence
- Experience hiring and developing engineering teams
- Experience spanning both webapp/desktop and mobile (iOS and Android teams), or client plus adjacent backend ownership
- Demonstrated ability to balance speed, quality, and high engineering standard in fast paced environment
- Rust experience
- Experience in collaboration, social or other real-time communication products
- Background in privacy-first, security-focused, or mission-driven products
- Experience with end-to-end encryption, secure communications
- Experience in community scale or multi device products where reliability and sync are critical
- Experience building high impact open source solutions
- Experience in applying AI in sustainable manner in the development and test process
Your team
Engineering leadership team
Engineering leadership team leading a team on one of Proton's upcoming products
Benefits
Transport costs supported through subsidizing public transport, bike allowances, or parking spaces based on office location
Comprehensive health insurance plans, competitive retirement savings options, generous vacation and leave policies, and wellness programs
- All the devices and software needed to excel in the role
- Lunch and snacks provided by Proton every day at offices
- Stock options when you join
- Flexible working: define your own working hours as long as it works with team meetings
- Learning and development: training programs, conferences and events, continual learning
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About Proton
Join Proton and build a better internet where privacy is the default
Proton was founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN and has built the world's largest encrypted email service (Proton Mail) and expanded into Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton Calendar—tools used by millions globally to protect their freedom, fight censorship, and keep their data safe.
Mission
Privacy is a fundamental human right
Key facts
- 700+ team members
- 2014
- Privacy technology
- Founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN
- Profitable and independent (no VC control)
- Selectively hire from the top ~1% of applicants
- 700+ team members across 50+ countries
- Over 100 million people trust and support Proton
- Proton's only source of revenue is user subscriptions
- Started with the support of a crowdfunding campaign
What they value
- Privacy is a fundamental human right
- Community-first
- Diversity drives innovation