Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain; m​/f​/d

the company is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the
Fin Tech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing
. Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market.

the company currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from
more than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns.

For further development and expansion of our successful business, the company is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director of Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers)

This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape, an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the the company’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships.

At the company, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).

The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams.

This embraces the six impact areas (in details below):

• Delivery quality and speed

• Domain ownership

• Team and culture

• Data strategy

• Process and compliance

• accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their Business-owners in time, scope, and budget

• responsible for the performance of their teams

• resolving impediments for their teams

• nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability

• ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams

• leading both complex technical and important business projects

• leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives

• drives long-term value creation for their domain

• is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe

• builds resilient domain expertise in their teams

• has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams

• collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders

• ensures Data Vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing data-related vendors)

• shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the the company's business needs

• collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing the company's Tech Strategy

• actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions

• is always considering the strategic benefits and price of

• keeping an existing technical solution

• introducing a new alternative (e framework, tech stack, tooling, process)

• fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams

• offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well

• encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility

• attracting, hiring, and retaining diverse top technical talent for the company from around the world

• proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members

• ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams

• organizing workshops/hackathons

• representing the company in external tech events advancing the company’s tech brand recognition

• shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices

• nurturing and protecting our culture of trust

• initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)

• recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams

• drives, improves, and applies existing the company standards and policies, Regulation and data privacy

• contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation

• develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization

• develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams

• is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams

• actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt

• You hold a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experience

• Leadership experience 10y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and teams, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams

• you have at least 4y experience in Fin Tech Domain knowledge of Investment products is a strong…