Engineering Manager Java/Kotlin - Fintech - Delivery Hero

Polluxa, Inc.; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Polluxa, Inc. seeks an Engineering Manager (Java/Kotlin) to lead a Payments engineering team of 6–10 backend engineers building the payments infrastructure powering Delivery Hero across 65 countries.

You will balance people leadership with technical depth, partnering with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the roadmap, maintain high code quality, and ensure reliable, scalable systems. Experience with distributed systems and observability is essential.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading engineering teams (6+).
• Strong background in distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Experience with payments infrastructure and observability.
• Ability to collaborate with product, data, and business stakeholders.

Aufgaben

• Lead day-to-day management of a backend team of 6–10 engineers.
• Participate in design reviews and ensure high-quality engineering decisions.
• Own delivery planning, blockers, and balancing quality with velocity.
• Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders on roadmap.
• Uphold code quality, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Recruit, interview, and foster an inclusive team culture.
• Maintain healthy on-call practices and blameless post-mortems.

Kenntnisse

Team leadership

Hiring

Stakeholder management

On-call health

Architecture review

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Kafka

JVM/Kotlin/Java

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

JVM

Kotlin

Java

Jobbeschreibung

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager (Java/Kotlin) 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.
• 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.