Engineering Manager - Payroll

Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves. Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin – it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.

We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy, backed by local award winning support.

Your hiring experience matters  Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive. If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

The Payroll Product Team at Shine
We are a small, ambitious, and close-knit product and tech team building modern payroll software for the Dutch market. Our product team consists of seven people: three backend engineers, two frontend engineers, a product designer, and a product manager, all working remotely in a highly collaborative environment.

We are entering a new phase focused on building the best modern payroll solution in The Netherlands: a complex SaaS product with challenging domain logic, scalability challenges, and plenty of interesting technical problems to solve.

Leading a team of dedicated experts, where the absence of corporate layers means faster decisions and genuine ownership, you'll be stepping into a lean, agile environment where your contribution is immediately impactful and highly visible. You’ll help us in engineering groundbreaking solutions that redefine an industry, delivering multiple significant projects and features for our customers, and by joining us, you will become a key part of making this vision a reality.

While our core development team operates effectively from their remote base in Zwolle, we believe there is significant value in establishing a strong in-person presence at our fantastic Amsterdam headquarters for this specific role, enabling in-person collaboration, particularly with key stakeholders and cross‑functional teams who are primarily based there. We remain open to considering alternative working arrangement for exceptional candidates from across the Netherlands and would encourage you to apply if such an arrangement is required.

Come build the future with us.

Your Role as an Engineering Manager in the Payroll Product Team
We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is excited to help scale our engineering team, strengthen our delivery processes, and support the growth and success of our team. You will play a key role in building, mentoring, and empowering a high‑performing engineering team, helping create an environment where engineers can do their best work and continue to grow. Our company is at an exciting inflection point in its growth trajectory.

We are looking for a dedicated Engineering Manager who can provide strong people leadership, bring structure to execution and collaboration, and help the team scale effectively.

As an Engineering Manager in our Payroll Product team, you’ll combine the need for speed and pragmatism with the non‑negotiable demand for long‑term reliability and scalability. You will be the force multiplier, significantly elevating our engineering quality bar, core standards, delivery processes, and collaborative spirit across the entire product and engineering organisation.

Your role is multifaceted, encompassing leadership, technical mastery, operational discipline, and strategic foresight. The ideal candidate will provide a crucial balance of essential development principles:

Leadership:  Leading a small team that we aim to expand, you’ll cultivate a safe, ambitious, and collaborative engineering culture that is resilient and high‑performing. You’ll coach, mentor, and develop a remote‑friendly team, and lead by believing in empowerment over orders, instilling a culture where…