Engineering Manager - Productivity
About the job
- Have a strong technical background and have worked as a senior contributor before becoming an engineering manager.
- Have at least one to two years of actual management experience with a team of five to six people, including one-to-ones, feedback, performance management, and handling difficult situations.
- Be comfortable navigating both machine learning and software engineering, with enough technical grounding to challenge architectural decisions in either area without being an expert.
- Be able to manage a broad scope and large volume of information in an interconnected, unstructured environment.
- Have experience in a startup or scale-up and be able to work without extensive formal processes.
- Be fluent in French and English; both are mandatory.
- Manage the team, including one-to-ones, feedback, employee development, and conflict management.
- Lead delivery by setting clear priorities, keeping commitments, and quickly removing blockers.
- Participate in technical decisions and contribute hands-on code when needed; challenge architectural, technology-stack, and technical-debt decisions.
- Contribute to cross-functional Engineering Manager team topics, including engineering processes, recruiting, and technical culture.
- Navigate machine-learning and software-engineering contexts while remaining technically relevant in both.
- Work closely with the product manager to prioritize features and balance the squad’s needs.
About the company
Doctrine provides PHP libraries for database storage and object mapping, most notably the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL). These open-source tools help PHP developers interact with databases by mapping PHP objects to database tables and by offering a unified API for database operations. The project is widely used across PHP frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas, and is maintained by a volunteer community under the MIT license. Unlike proprietary DB tools, Doctrine is funded through donations and sponsorships, and it also engages the developer community through blogs, events, and consulting. The goal is to give PHP developers stable, flexible database management capabilities and a reliable open-source ecosystem.
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2006
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Doctrine 3.4.0 shipped last week, signaling active feature delivery for modern PHP.
- Doctrine pushed ORM 2 EOL from February 2026 to at least February 2027.
- Packagist shows DBAL major 3 adoption around 60 percent, strengthening upgrade momentum.
What critics are saying
- ORM 2 support ends after February 2027, forcing upgrades across downstream applications.
- ORM 3 adoption sits at 25-30 percent, delaying ecosystem convergence and support simplification.
- DBAL 4 and ORM 3 deprecations break legacy code, creating migration toil for maintainers.
What makes Doctrine unique
- Doctrine ORM and DBAL anchor PHP persistence across Symfony, Laravel, and Laminas.
- Doctrine 3.4.0 added PHP 8.4 native lazy objects and property hooks support.
- Doctrine’s 2026 sponsorship program funds maintainers, infrastructure, swag, and conference travel.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Professional Development Budget
- Health Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Commuter Benefits
- Meal Benefits