Engineering Manager - Fintech Payments

DUDE CHEM; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

27 days holiday

Educational Budget

Language Courses

Parental Support

Udemy Business access

Health Checkups

Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Sabbatical Bank

Public Transportation Discount

Life & Accident Insurance

Corporate Pension Plan

Zusammenfassung

Delivery Hero is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Payments engineering team in Berlin. You will lead 6–10 backend engineers building the payments infrastructure powering Delivery Hero across 65 countries, ensuring a high technical bar and strong collaboration with product and business teams.

You will stay close to technical work, drive design reviews, and manage delivery while maintaining a focus on observability, CI/CD, and PCI-DSS compliance within a fintech context.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading engineering teams (6+).
• Deep background in distributed systems (JVM/Kotlin/Java).
• Strong understanding of Postgres/Kafka stack, observability, and CI/CD.
• Experience with agile methodologies and delivering cross-team projects.
• Familiarity with fintech context: PCI-DSS, auditability, zero-error mindset.

Aufgaben

• Lead day-to-day team leadership for 6–10 backend engineers, including 1:1s, performance cycles, hiring, and onboarding.
• Engage in architectural discussions, design reviews, and RFC feedback to raise engineering quality.
• Own team-level delivery: planning, prioritization, blockers removal, balancing quality and velocity.
• Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap.
• Uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Drive recruitment and foster inclusive team culture and psychological safety.
• Maintain healthy on-call culture with blameless post-mortems and issue resolution.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Technical judgment

Systems thinking

Project management

Fintech context

Communication

Tools

JVM/Java/Kotlin

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

About the opportunity

We are on the lookout for anEngineering Manager to lead one of our Payments engineering teams — a group of 6–10 backend engineers building the payments infrastructure that powers Delivery Hero across 65 countries. This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, technical depth, and cross-functional collaboration. You will grow a high-performing team, maintain a strong technical bar, and be the connective tissue between engineering execution and broader product and business goals.

Be part of building the financial backbone of Delivery Hero. You’ll develop products that empower millions of customers and merchants, from seamless payments to innovative financial solutions like wallets and credit. Your work will support our path to profitability by creating financial flexibility for users and enabling smooth transactions across our markets.

• Team Leadership: Own the day-to-day leadership of a team of 6–10 backend engineers — running 1:1s, performance cycles, hiring, and onboarding with genuine care for each person's growth.
• Technical Depth: Stay close to the technical work. Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, and RFC feedback — not to make decisions for the team, but to raise the quality of thinking and ensure sound engineering choices.
• Delivery & Execution: Own team-level delivery — planning, prioritization, and removing blockers — while balancing engineering quality with product velocity.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team's roadmap. Translate technical constraints into product tradeoffs and ensure engineering is represented clearly in cross-functional forums.
• Engineering Standards: Uphold and evolve the team's standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability. Foster a culture of ownership — "you build it, you run it."
• Hiring & Culture: Play an active role in recruiting, interviewing, and building a diverse and inclusive team culture where engineers feel empowered and psychologically safe.
• Incident & On-call Health: Maintain a healthy on-call culture — ensuring incidents are resolved effectively, blameless post-mortems happen, and systemic issues get addressed.

What you need to be successful

• Leadership Experience: Proven experience managing engineering teams (6+) in a fast-paced environment. You know how to coach through conflict and build a cohesive squad.
• Technical Judgment: While you may not be coding daily, you have a deep background in distributed systems (JVM/Kotlin/Java). You can spot a flawed architectural pattern and ask the right questions about consistency, idempotency, and scaling.
• Systems Thinking: You understand the lifecycle of a high-throughput Postgres/Kafka stack. You know what "good" looks like in terms of observability (SLOs/SLIs) and CI/CD.
• Project Management Savvy: You are proficient in agile methodologies and have a track record of delivering complex, cross-team projects on time without burning out your team.
• Fintech Context: Familiarity with the stakes of financial systems—auditability, PCI-DSS compliance, and the "zero-error" mindset required for payments.
• Communication: You can explain a "cascading failure" to a Product VP and a "business pivot" to a Junior Engineer with equal clarity.

Who we are

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

What's in it for you

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.
• Wondering what relocating to Berlin is like? In this article, we’ve put together 10 things you should know about moving to Berlin and how Delivery Hero can support you. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.
• Ready to prepare for your interview? Check out the list of the 5 most common interview questions and answers created in collaboration with our recruiters.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [e-mail].

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

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