Engineering Manager

Virta Ltd; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Virta Ltd is seeking an Engineering Manager for the eMSP & Driver Services team to lead nine engineers across mobile and backend domains. You will own delivery, quality, and platform integrity, while shaping the team’s growth and collaboration with Product and Design.

The role emphasizes leadership, architectural input, and hands-on influence without daily coding, in a hybrid work setting that values reliability and user trust across Europe.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading a product engineering team — hiring, developing, and managing performance of software engineers.
• Strong software engineering background with architectural insight and technical credibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: coach nine engineers and drive career development.
• Own delivery: plan with Product, set realistic commitments, and ensure predictable execution.
• Own quality and operations: drive production ownership, incident readiness, and L3 support.
• Safeguard the platform: develop controls against fraud, misuse, and threats.
• Drive modernization: guide decomposition from PHP monolith toward TypeScript/NestJS services.
• Hire and shape the team: recruit, onboard, and make performance calls.
• Partner across the organization: collaborate with Product, Design, and other teams.

Skills

Engineering management

People leadership

Software engineering

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

TypeScript

NestJS

PHP

Job description

Are you ready to lead the team behind the driver experience at Europe's fastest-growing EV charging platform? We're looking for an Engineering Manager for our eMSP & Driver Services team — the people who make charging effortless for millions of drivers. This is a role for someone who builds great teams first and great software through them.

About Us

Virta is Europe's fastest-growing electric vehicle charging platform, operating in 36+ countries with 600,000+ charging stations. Headquartered in Helsinki, with offices in Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, Singapore, and Bucharest, we're shaping the future of e-mobility with a talented, multinational team. Virta is among the rare 65 companies that made the FT 1000 list four consecutive times.

The Role

As Engineering Manager for eMSP & Driver Services, you'll lead a team of nine engineers building everything a driver touches: our native iOS and Android apps, the white-label applications our eMSP customers run under their own brands, payments and billing — including payment terminal integrations for our customers — RFID and driver management, and roaming across charging networks. You'll own the team's delivery, health, and growth — partnering closely with Product to turn roadmaps into shipped, reliable software. This is a people leadership role with technical substance: you won't write production code daily, but you'll be expected to engage credibly in architecture and design discussions in a domain where reliability and user trust are everything.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the team: Coach nine engineers across mobile and backend disciplines, run meaningful 1:1s, and drive career development through our structured competency framework.
• Own delivery: Plan and prioritize with Product, set realistic commitments, and build a track record of predictable execution — using evidence, not optimism.
• Own quality and operations: Your team runs what it builds. Drive production ownership, incident response readiness, and a healthy approach to L3 support.
• Safeguard the platform: Develop systems and controls that protect customers, transactions, and business operations against fraud, misuse, and emerging threats.
• Drive modernization: Lead your team through our ongoing decomposition from a PHP monolith toward domain-oriented TypeScript/NestJS services — balancing delivery with technical renewal.
• Hire and shape the team: Recruit, onboard, and make the performance calls — including the difficult ones — that keep the bar high.
• Partner across the organization: Collaborate with Product, Design, other engineering teams, and the commercial teams behind our white-label eMSP offering to keep the driver experience coherent end to end.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading a product engineering team — hiring, developing, and managing performance of software engineers.
• A software engineering background with enough technical depth to challenge and support design decisions, review trade-offs, and earn the team's trust.
• A track record of predictable delivery in an agile environment — planning grounded in data, honest expectation-setting with stakeholders.
• Experience leading teams that build consumer-facing products — mobile applications, payments, or similar — where reliability and user trust matter.
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineers: growing juniors into independent contributors and seniors into technical leaders.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Willingness to work onsite on a regular basis (hybrid working).
• Residency and working rights in Finland.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the EV charging, energy, mobility, or IoT sectors — familiarity with OCPI or roaming concepts is a plus.
• Hands-on background in native mobile development (iOS/Android), TypeScript/NestJS, PHP, or leading teams through legacy modernization.
• Experience with white-label or multi-tenant products, or payment systems at scale.
• Experience leading teams in a multinational, distributed organization.
• Experience in both e-commerce and POS payments.

Why Join Us

• Lead a team whose work is visible to millions of drivers across Europe.
• Real ownership — your team runs its services end to end, and your leadership directly shapes how they grow.
• A leadership culture that values honesty over hype: realistic commitments, evidence-based decisions, and direct communication.
• International, passionate team spread across our European offices and beyond.
• Hybrid work with autonomy and flexibility.