Engineering Manager (Frontend)

Location: Cholet, France; hybrid workplace

Salary: €55,300–€63,600 per year

Company

NIQ is a global consumer intelligence company providing retail data, FMCG intelligence, analytics, and consumer buying insights. A3Distrib, based in Cholet, delivers web data acquisition and retail intelligence products for French and European retail clients.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end delivery for the frontend team, including backlog health, sprint cadence, release quality, risk mitigation, and production support.
• Manage and develop engineers through 1:1s, feedback, performance management, development plans, coaching, and support for senior engineers' autonomy.
• Reduce technical debt across the legacy C# frontend estate and lead migration toward modern JavaScript-based frontend technologies.
• Promote code reviews, automated testing, observability, version control discipline, CI/CD, Dependabot coverage, WAF compliance, and AI-driven development practices.
• Coordinate with Engineering, IT Support, Product, data, infrastructure, and Digital Engineering teams on dependencies, migrations, resourcing, and client commitments.
• Improve sprint predictability, incident response, mean time to resolution, team retention, engineering capability, and frontend security posture.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing a software engineering team, including structured 1:1s, performance management, and team development.
• Strong JavaScript proficiency sufficient to review technical decisions, coach engineers, and understand frontend architecture trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of C# and the ability to engage meaningfully with a legacy C# codebase during modernization.
• Demonstrated experience delivering technical projects end-to-end, from planning and backlog management through release and production support.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical engagement with people management and stakeholder communication.
• Good English is required for written and verbal communication in the bilingual French/English environment; French is A3Distrib's main language.
• Genuine commitment to developing engineers, including increasing senior engineers' capability and autonomy.

Nice to have

• Experience with frontend engineering in a French retail, FMCG, or data-driven product context.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern frontend migration, especially from C# to JavaScript frameworks.
• Agile delivery experience with Scrum or Kanban, backlog management tooling, and sprint reviews.
• Exposure to web application security, including dependency management, WAF configuration, and vulnerability tracking.
• Familiarity with NIQ's Workforce Architecture or an equivalent people-management and career-development framework.
• Experience in a post-acquisition or corporate integration context.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working environment.
• Volunteer time off.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• AI tools may be used during recruitment, with human oversight and final hiring decisions made by humans.