Engineering Manager

Description

This is a people-first leadership role. You will be expected to build a high-performing, motivated team, drive delivery with clarity and accountability, and create the conditions for your engineers to do their best work. You are not expected to be the best coder in the room - you are expected to make the room better.

Briefing

• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers based primarily in Bratislava and Amsterdam, with full ownership of performance, growth, and team health
• Drive delivery of product and platform initiatives with clarity on scope, timelines, and trade-offs - and communicate these proactively to stakeholders
• Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence within your team
• Collaborate with product teamand client success teams to translate business requirements into executable engineering plans
• Establish and maintainclear metrics for team performance, delivery quality, and operational health - andact on them
• Actively embed AI tooling and an AI-first mindset into how your team designs, builds, and ships software
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and retainingtop engineering talent
• Identifyand address risks early - whether technical, delivery-related, or people-related

About You

Experience & background

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leadingmultiplesoftware engineeringteams
• Background in enterprise SaaS - you understand regulated, production-critical environments, background in financial servicesis an advantage
• Experience delivering complex software platforms; you can have an informed technical conversation without being in the weeds
• Track recordof building delivery structure: OKRs, RAG reporting, sprint discipline, and metrics that actually drivedecisions
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineers - not just manage them

• Results-oriented: you set clear goals, hold yourself and your team accountable, and don'tmistake activity for progress
• AI-native: you actively explore how AI tooling can accelerate your team's output, improve quality, and reduce toil - and you bring your team along on that journey
• Direct and honest communicator - you surface problems early, propose solutions, and don'twait for someone else to call it
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you can operatein a scaling organizationwhere not everything is defined yet
• Our working language is English

Why us?

• A leadership role with real ownership at a company that is scaling into Tier 1 financial institutions
• A collaborative, international engineering culture across Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Bratislavaand Žilina
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• The opportunity to shape how AI changes the way a fintech engineering team works - not as a buzzword, but as a practical daily reality