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From its beginnings as a wool mill, La Redoute is a French brand that has forged unique relationships with its customers for the past 180 years – yesterday through its catalogue, today on the web. We are a mainly digital player, selling fashion as well as home decoration.


Associated with the Galeries Lafayette group and present in Portugal, in Leiria, La Redoute is looking for an Engineering Manager.


The Engineering Manager role requires an engineer at heart that is able to lead and guide engineering teams towards the creation of outstanding products and services. The role requires a deep technical expertise allowing the teams to have a strong technical guidance at management level. You need to be able to manage and lead by example with a positive attitude bringing out the best of people.


It’s an exciting opportunity to join La Redoute and have a real impact on the culture and environment as we go along this journey.

Your future job

• Manage a team of talented engineers by providing mentorship
• Lead by example and earning trust through the excellence of team deliverables
• Be a technical advisor and contributor as much as needed, helping your team and other teams
• Be able to communicate and manage efficiently different stakeholders
• Promote best technology and software development practices into the team with passion and enthusiasm
• Contribute to the whole development cycle, analysis, implementation, testing and operation

What’s expected from you:

• Computer Science degree or related IT field experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing or operating large scale web applications
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns (particularly within the Microservice Architecture)
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Cloud Native applications
• Strong experience with No SQL DBs (ex: Mongo)
• Strong CI/CD experience
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Experience building strong, effective engineering teams through hiring, coaching and mentoring, especially on fast growing company

Personal Traits:

• Be able to manage and coach remote employees effectively
• Ability to adapt to different contexts, teams and stakeholders
• Proactive Ownership for the projects delivered by your team
• A continuous eye for improvement on existing processes
• Clear communication and collaboration skills
• Provides mentorship for team members
• Excellent analytical / problem- solving ability

Good reasons to join us:

• Integration in a team of more than 100 IT members
• International company
• Hybrid work model
• Real sense of community/close-knit office