Head of Engineering - Banking Alliance (m/f/x)

Translate company and business goals into clear engineering priorities, operating models, and measurable outcomes for your teams

Actively partner with Product, Design, and Data leadership to shape the roadmap, challenge trade-offs constructively, and drive execution across teams and departments

Own the delivery, quality, reliability, security, and long-term sustainability of your technical ecosystem, ensuring teams balance business impact with sound engineering judgment

Guide architectural and organisational decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, and team autonomy, while reducing unnecessary dependencies and enabling the organisation to scale effectively

Direct, mentor, and inspire a team of Engineering Managers and senior engineers. Your success is measured by their growth, the strength of your leadership structure, and the autonomy of their teams

Proactively surface risks, remove obstacles, resolve conflicts, and represent the needs, constraints, and opportunities of your area in senior leadership discussions

Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, continuous learning, psychological safety, and operational excellence. Build an environment where high-performing teams thrive

A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Sciences, or equivalent practical experience

A proven track record of leading and scaling engineering organizations, directly mentoring Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, and driving staffing, performance, and organizational planning

A deep passion about people management, coaching, and career development. You take immense pride in building healthy, inclusive environments where engineers and managers can do the best work of their careers

Exceptional communication and analytical skills in both the technical and product domains. You know how to translate technical realities into business impact, challenge trade-offs constructively, and align diverse stakeholders

Deep architectural understanding rooted in hands-on past experience as a software engineer - specifically within modern backend (Java, Kotlin) and/or frontend (React/JS) ecosystems

Profound understanding of distributed systems, RESTful API design, scalable cloud architectures, and the operational demands of reliable, secure, and maintainable systems

Experience with incident management, security, resilience, and change management in a regulated environment is a strong plus. Background in financial services is an advantage

Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers

Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients

Be productive with the latest hardware and tools

Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 

Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes

International relocation support is provided if required 

Opportunity to work from abroad

Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme

Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’

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