Director of Engineering

Impala Search Ltd; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Impala Search Ltd. is seeking a Director of Engineering in Berlin to lead a 40+ person engineering organisation responsible for brokerage, investment and pension products.

You will shape the leadership model, scale teams and partner with product and commercial stakeholders to deliver scalable financial platforms. The role requires balancing strategic vision with hands-on technical depth, and collaboration across European markets to adapt to regulatory and taxation requirements.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading multiple teams of engineers.
• Exposure to investment, brokerage, wealth-management or related fintech products.
• Ability to blend product thinking with deep technical expertise.
• Comfort with reliability, transaction speed and financial controls as core engineering concerns.
• Willingness to work from the Berlin office two days per week.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop a multi-team engineering organisation responsible for investment, brokerage, pension and digital wealth products.
• Scale the engineering group, defining leadership structure, team boundaries and operating model for growth.
• Drive technology behind an expanding brokerage proposition including equities and ETFs.
• Evolve pension platform by adding broader investment and brokerage capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Investment and commercial stakeholders to translate new propositions into scalable systems.
• Support expansion across European markets, adapting products to regulatory, taxation, and operational contexts.
• Balance strategic leadership with technical depth to challenge architecture and design decisions.

Kenntnisse

Strong engineering leadership

Fintech experience

Product thinking with tech depth

Reliability and financial controls

Office presence Berlin

Jobbeschreibung

Our Series D FinTech client is building the infrastructure behind how 1.5m+ people save, invest and plan for retirement.

The company reached profitability last year, they currently manage €70bn+ in assets and have generated €6bn+ in interest for customers through 275+ banking partnerships across Europe. Their next chapter goes beyond savings - building a European wealth platform spanning investing, brokerage and pensions.

Role Overview:

You’ll join as Director of Engineering, leading a 40+ person organisation building the technology behind brokerage, investment and pension products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a multi-team engineering organisation responsible for investment, brokerage, pension and digital wealth products.
• Scale the engineering group while defining the leadership structure, team boundaries and operating model needed for its next phase of growth.
• Drive the technology behind an expanding brokerage proposition, including individual equities and ETFs.
• Evolve the pension platform by introducing broader investment and brokerage capabilities within retirement products.
• Partner closely with Product, Investment and commercial stakeholders to translate new financial propositions into scalable technical systems.
• Support expansion across European markets, adapting products and underlying systems to different regulatory, operational and taxation requirements.
• Balance strategic engineering leadership with sufficient technical depth to challenge architecture, execution and system-design decisions.

Qualifications:

• Strong engineering leadership experience across multiple teams.
• Meaningful exposure to investment, brokerage, wealth-management or closely related fintech products.
• A background combining product thinking with genuine technical and systems expertise.
• Comfortable operating in environments where reliability, transaction speed, financial controls and customer obligations are fundamental engineering concerns.
• Willingness to work from the Berlin office two days per week.

This is an opportunity to shape the engineering organisation behind products that help 1.5m+ people put their money to work - expanding from savings into investing, brokerage and retirement products at European scale. We’d love to hear from you.