Engineering Manager Accounts Platform

Lead the Accounts team through its transition into separate Accounts and Ledger teams, defining technical boundaries, setting architecture and reliability direction, and owning SLOs, observability, on-call, stakeholder partnerships, and engineer development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Accounts team through the ledger split and sequence the transition.
• Define technical boundaries for ledger writes, consistency guarantees, schema ownership, account opening, lifecycle management, and statements.
• Set the Ledger Team’s technical direction for performance, availability, consistency, and long-term architecture.
• Own system stability and operational reliability through SLOs, observability, and on-call practices.
• Partner with product, compliance, and internal operations teams to deliver accurate, supportable, and compliant solutions.
• Develop engineers at every level.
• Align with other engineering managers on cross-cutting banking infrastructure decisions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated engineering management experience leading teams through delivery.
• Backend engineering foundation.
• Experience leading distributed remote-first teams across time zones.
• Experience leading technical teams, aligning with senior leadership, and partnering with product.
• Fintech or banking domain experience.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and correctness-critical systems.
• Knowledge of high-volume distributed systems, consistency models, fault tolerance, reliability patterns, SLOs, SLAs, and observability.
• Backend engineering experience in a strongly typed language.
• Experience with microservices in a cloud-native environment.
• Relational database engineering experience at scale, including transactions, consistency guarantees, and write performance.
• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous systems.
• Experience with distributed systems migrations at scale.
• Exposure to agentic or AI-integrated systems and engineering practices.
• Ability to communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• 3rd Pillar Pension Fund Contribution
• 25 days Paid Annual Leave
• 3 Paid Days off for Volunteering or L&D Activities
• Parental Leave days
• Family-Friendly Leave
• Personal L&D Budget of 500€ per year
• Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
• WFH Equipment Allowance
• Sabbatical Leave
• Share options
• Team Events