Engineering Manager - Fintech
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Engineering Manager - Fintech
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of its Fintech Platform teams. This role involves managing a cross-functional team of 6-9 engineers building the financial backbone that supports nearly €10 billion in payments annually. The position requires strong backend engineering experience, distributed systems knowledge, and financial domain expertise.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our Fintech Platform teams at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. You’ll manage a cross-functional team of 6–9 engineers building the financial backbone that supports almost €10 billion in payments every year. This platform is critical to how [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] handles money movement, reconciliation, and financial reporting, and plays a key role in enabling future scale.
You’ll report to the Director of Engineering and work closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer. Together, you’ll guide your team to build reliable, scalable systems that other Fintech teams depend on, while maintaining high standards for correctness, auditability, and operational excellence.
You won’t be coding, but you’ll need a strong engineering background. You should understand how modern cloud-based, distributed systems work and feel comfortable discussing architecture, reviewing technical decisions, and challenging trade-offs.
Your Mission
- Lead a cross-functional team of 6–9 backend and platform engineers.
- Own the delivery and evolution of core financial systems such as ledger, reconciliation, and integrations with banks and external providers.
- Coach and mentor team members through regular 1:1s and feedback, with a focus on growing senior engineers.
- Define goals, priorities, and success metrics aligned with platform stability and long-term scalability.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and other Fintech teams (Acquiring, Payouts, Risk, Finance) to plan and deliver a shared roadmap.
- Ensure high standards of reliability, data consistency, and incident management across critical systems.
- Protect team focus and manage scope in a high-dependency environment.
- Contribute to hiring and long-term team growth.
You’ll Be a Great Fit If
- Experience leading backend or platform engineering teams on modern cloud architectures.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems (e.g. event-driven architecture, data consistency, idempotency).
- Experience working on financial systems, payments, or other high-reliability domains where correctness is critical.
- Ability to challenge technical decisions and guide architecture without being hands-on daily.
- Clear communication and ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Curiosity and a strong drive to learn and improve.
- Proven impact beyond your own team, especially in cross-team or platform contexts.
What’s in It for You
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] offers unlimited paid holiday, participation in the company share program, best-in-class parental leave, flexible hybrid working, and a work-from-anywhere policy. Additional benefits include a home office setup budget and monthly allowances for working from home and healthcare.
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