Requirements

Leadership Experience: Proven experience managing engineering teams (6+) in a fast-paced environment. You know how to coach through conflict and build a cohesive squad.
Technical Judgment: While you may not be coding daily, you have a deep background in distributed systems (JVM/Kotlin/Java). You can spot a flawed architectural pattern and ask the right questions about consistency, idempotency, and scaling.
Systems Thinking: You understand the lifecycle of a high-throughput Postgres/Kafka stack. You know what "good" looks like in terms of observability (SLOs/SLIs) and CI/CD.
Project Management Savvy: You are proficient in agile methodologies and have a track record of delivering complex, cross-team projects on time without burning out your team.
Fintech Context: Familiarity with the stakes of financial systems—auditability, PCI-DSS compliance, and the "zero-error" mindset required for payments.
Communication: You can explain a "cascading failure" to a Product VP and a "business pivot" to a Junior Engineer with equal clarity.

What you'll be doing

Team Leadership: Own the day-to-day leadership of a team of 6–10 backend engineers — running 1:1s, performance cycles, hiring, and onboarding with genuine care for each person's growth.
Technical Depth: Stay close to the technical work. Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, and RFC feedback — not to make decisions for the team, but to raise the quality of thinking and ensure sound engineering choices.
Delivery & Execution: Own team-level delivery — planning, prioritization, and removing blockers — while balancing engineering quality with product velocity.
Stakeholder Management: Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap. Translate technical constraints into product tradeoffs and ensure engineering is represented clearly in cross-functional forums.
Engineering Standards: Uphold and evolve the team's standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability. Foster a culture of ownership — "you build it, you run it."
Hiring & Culture: Play an active role in recruiting, interviewing, and building a diverse and inclusive team culture where engineers feel empowered and psychologically safe.
Incident & On-call Health: Maintain a healthy on-call culture — ensuring incidents are resolved effectively, blameless post-mortems happen, and systemic issues get addressed.

Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.