Engineering Manager - Banking

Location: Hybrid from hubs in Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, or Berlin, or fully remote with regular travel for team meetups. The role is also listed for Madrid, Porto, and Gdańsk.

Company

hirify.global is a European fintech providing invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and is part of Cegid.

What you will do

• Manage, coach, and support a squad of 4–8 engineers, including expectations, feedback, and professional growth.
• Set priorities, delivery plans, technical direction, team OKRs, and a clear technical vision with Product and Design.
• Coordinate scope and dependencies with Product, Design, Compliance, Operations, and other engineering teams.
• Review architecture and technical proposals, contribute to design documents and code reviews, and pair on complex implementations.
• Improve delivery practices, observability, reliability, on-call processes, and engineering quality.
• Own the reliability and availability of systems, participate in incident management, and communicate technical trade-offs to peers and leadership.

Requirements

• At least initial experience managing engineers as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Team Lead.
• Technical background sufficient to discuss backend data flows, correctness constraints, system trade-offs, and customer and operational outcomes; daily production coding is not required.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous systems.
• Understanding of correctness, auditability, reliability, and operational requirements in regulated financial environments.
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguous, cross-system, cross-team, and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs effectively to engineers, Product Managers, Compliance leads, and VPs.
• Experience working with distributed and multicultural teams in remote or hybrid environments across different countries and cultures.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work from company hubs or fully remote work.
• Regular travel for team meetups is expected for fully remote employees.
• Work on banking systems supporting more markets, customers, and complex financial flows.
• Multicultural environment with colleagues across European countries.

Hiring process

• 45-minute introductory call with a Talent Acquisition Specialist.
• 60-minute call with an Area Engineering Manager focused on management experience.
• 60-minute distributed-systems System Design exercise, followed by a 60-minute cross-functional Case Study.
• Soft-skills interview and team meeting.