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Inpart

Director of Engineering

Hybrid

Lyon, France

Senior

Full Time

06-11-2025

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Skills

Communication Leadership Java JavaScript CI/CD Coaching Architecture Software Architecture Organization AWS Recruitment VueJS

Job Specifications

About the Company

Inpart is the leading provider of partnering technology solutions for the biopharma industry. More than 60% of the world's largest Pharma companies and 100+ innovative Biotech’s rely on Inpart's platform to manage their partnerships. With complementary data, Inpart delivers structure, process, efficiency, security, and compliance to more than 160 clients. Our success is powered by a diverse, international team united by our core values: care, diversity, and excellence.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our largest and most strategically important engineering group. You’ll guide several development squads working on core parts of our platform balancing delivery for our customers, technical excellence, and team growth.

This role requires to work closely with the CTO, Product, and Platform leadership to turn strategy into clear technical and organizational outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on organizing teams, developing people, technical modernization, and driving reliable delivery, with a strong connection to how our work creates value for customers.

Responsibilities

Lead and support a group of engineering managers and senior engineers across multiple squads
Translate company-wide technology goals into clear plans and priorities for your teams
Define and evolve team structure, processes, and goals as the organization grows
Ensure high standards of reliability, performance, and quality in everything the teams ship
Partner with product and design to build solutions that solve real customer problems and deliver measurable impact
Guide architectural discussions and technical trade-offs, ensuring alignment with our long-term platform strategy
Use data to improve delivery predictability, quality, and engineering effectiveness

Qualifications

10+ years of experience managing 15+ engineers (direct and indirect reports) across distributed teams
Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Demonstrated success in leading technical modernization or digital transformation initiatives & in delivering complex projects through others, not just personal effort
Strong technical foundation across backend and frontend systems, with a solid understanding of modern software architecture, scalability, and performance
Strong grasp of modern engineering practices — CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and scalable system design
Hands-on familiarity with technologies such as Java (BE) and JavaScript/VueJS (FE)
Skilled at coaching, developing talent, and building engaged, high-performing teams
Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical peers
A calm, pragmatic leader who can bring clarity in complex or ambiguous situations
Customer-focused mindset: able to connect engineering priorities to user outcomes and business value
Fluency in English

Equal Opportunity Statement

As part of our equal opportunities policy, we strongly encourage all qualified individuals to apply for the advertised position, regardless of origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability or any other legally protected status. We firmly believe in the value of diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are committed to providing equitable opportunities for all our employees, from the recruitment process through to professional development. As such, we ensure that our selection criteria are strictly based on the skills, experience and qualifications required to perform the duties of the job.

About the Company

Inpart is the leading platform for scientific partnering. We provide comprehensive solutions to initiate, optimize, and manage collaborations across industry and academia. In 2022, market-leading biopharma partnering platform Inova successfully merged with IN-PART, a specialized online matchmaking platform focused on fostering collaboration between academia and industry. The strategic union of the two companies as Inpart now offers a powerful platform equipping teams across pharma, biotech, and academia with solutions to sho... Know more