Engineering Manager (all genders)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin

Your mission

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Manager to lead one of our teams. This team is currently the one responsible for growth initiatives that involve building new features, new integrations, and launching new products. As Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role, guiding the team through a challenging but high-potential journey.
You will be responsible for shaping and executing technical and organisational strategies that combine decentralization and scalability. Your leadership will be key to guiding a high-impact, autonomous group of engineers who deliver reliable code, empower development teams, and contribute to the broader platform ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

Shape and drive the strategic investments Product needs to make to improve our revenue streams and unlock new ones.
Enable development teams to safely and autonomously own their responsibilities through tooling, guardrails, education, and integration.
Establish a long-term roadmap that aligns with product needs, technical feasibility, and sustainable team development.
Build and grow a high-performing, cross-functional team capable of owning complex deliveries with minimal supervision.
Shape the team's culture by promoting initiative, critical thinking, technical leadership, and shared responsibility.
Coach and develop engineers to grow their DevOps skill sets, while raising expectations for ownership and delivery.
Act as a bridge between Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, and other stakeholders to represent the team’s roadmap and priorities.

Your profile

Background

Proven experience leading high-impact engineering teams in a Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps context, ideally within regulated, complex technical environments.
Strong track record in transforming teams, developing both skills and mindset to support long-term strategic goals.
Experience with public cloud providers, ideally AWS, and an understanding of how cloud-native services impact database architecture and operations.

Skills

Solid knowledge of cloud and database technologies and the challenges of managing data infrastructure at scale.
Familiarity with platform engineering principles and practices, including automation, observability and IaC.
Strong leadership in people and performance management, with experience coaching engineers and influencing team culture.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to create alignment across engineering, product, and business.
Strategic thinker with the ability to translate a long-term vision into clear plans and team evolution.

Traits

You lead with clarity and purpose, bringing structure and momentum to complex transformations.
You are proactive, decisive, and comfortable making tough calls when needed.
You empower individuals and teams, holding high standards while creating a supportive environment.
You have a strong sense of accountability and inspire it in others.
You're always looking for ways to make things better, driving continuous improvements and consistent refactoring.
Move fast and break things.

Our offer

An attractive base salary.
Participation in our virtual Share Options Program.
Fresh coffee and snacks in the office.
Pet-friendly office.
Company & team events for a strong team feeling.
Direct collaboration with our C-Level.

You belong with us

We are currently a team of more than 50 employees from over 15 nations and are big fans of diversity. At Banxware, everyone is accepted, included, and celebrated, regardless of sexual orientation, cultural background, gender, religion, physical abilities, or lack of any of these.
We actively encourage women to apply: Our co-founder Miriam is a role model in this regard.

Place of work

This is a Berlin-based position.
We apply a 2-day-per-week office attendance policy.

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About us

Banxware is Europe’s leading embedded finance provider, empowering platforms to offer tailored lending solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). We partner with a wide range of platforms where SMEs generate revenue, including payment and POS providers, eCommerce marketplaces, and shop software vendors. Additionally, we collaborate with platforms aggregating multiple SMEs, such as neo banks, logistics providers, cash management platforms, and more. Our innovative solutions are trusted by top-tier companies like Qonto, Deutsche Bank (FYRST), Agicap, and JustEat Takeaway (Lieferando). From day one, we’ve operated on an international scale, and we’re proud to embrace a global mindset in everything we do.

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We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you for considering a career at Banxware. Please send us your CV via the application link. In case you are experiencing problems, get in touch with us at careers@banxware.com. Please, note that due to GDPR we are not allowed to receive CVs per e-mail.