Engineering Manager - Platform/Devops Engineering

Mollie; Milano; In loco; EUR 75.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading fintech company in Milan seeks an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on Continuous Integration and build processes. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in web applications and strong leadership skills. The role requires fostering a collaborative work culture and managing performance cycles. Join a fast-growing team and make an impact in the fintech space.

Servizi

Regular feedback and performance reviews

Transparent salary reviews

Opportunities for internal mobility

Competenze

• Minimum of 7 years in web application development.
• 2+ years in engineering management.
• Proficiency in driving DevOps practices.

Mansioni

• Manage a team of 4-8 engineers and guide their professional growth.
• Involve in hiring and building a strong engineering team.
• Work on scalable solutions for payment processing.

Conoscenze

Experience with observability stacks

Excellent communication skills

DevOps best practices

Leadership and mentoring

Strumenti

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Descrizione del lavoro

Businesses deserve better from finance. Less friction, more freedom. Since 2004, Mollie has been on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe.

Today, more than 250,000 companies trust our all-in-one platform to get paid, manage money and grow on their terms. Simple, scalable and built with real businesses in mind.

We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs, with 900+ Mollies across 12+ locations. Our people make this growth possible. We move fast, build with purpose and care deeply about our customers. Whether you're solving problems, building market-leading products or exploring how AI can make work smarter, you’ll have the freedom to create and the trust to deliver.

If you’re ready to grow, shape the future of fintech and join an ambitious, high-performing team, this is the place for you.

Your Impact
As an Engineering Manager in Developer Enablement, you are responsible for building a world-class engineering team with a hacker’s mindset towards problem solving. You will be involved in performance cycles and help your direct reports grow and reach the next stages of their career. Next to that, you are responsible for driving technical discussions within the team. You will be working on highly scalable solutions that process many payments per second at any point of the day. System observability and scalability are becoming increasingly important.

The particular position we are aiming to fill is focussed on Continuous Integration (CI)/our Build process and tools. Your team is responsible for our self-hosted Gitlab instances (code repositories and pipelines), base images, dependency management and shared pipelines. As such, you play a pivotal role for all Mollies and our mission to ‘Always Be Shipping’. Within our domain we are working towards an engineering environment that’s highly available. We want to offer more self-service capabilities, adopt an inner source way of working and champion golden paths. We got started moving the needle on these capabilities but are looking for an Engineering Manager who can help us get there.

What you'll ship:

Manage a team of 4-8 engineers directly, go through performance cycles, train them through continuous feedback and help them to the next stages in their career.

Be involved in the hiring process in order to build a world‑class engineering team.

You bring a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop scalable solutions.

Work with engineers and product delivery manager to create the roadmap.

Work together with the team to create cutting‑edge, user friendly internal products which are used by hundreds of engineers on a daily basis.

Guide and enable engineers based on modern platform engineering practices.

Develop a positive & collaborative work culture that empowers the team to perform at their best.

What you'll bring:

Minimum of 7 years of experience developing or operating large scale web applications of which 2+ years in an engineering management role.

Experience building strong, effective engineering teams through hiring, coaching and mentoring, especially on fast growing company.

Experience with observability stacks, preferably Datadog or similar.

Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders.

Experience driving DevOps best practices of end‑to‑end responsibility, customer centricity and have automation at heart.

Experience implementing data‑driven decision making processes through Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Experience in developing large scale systems and driving technical and architectural discussion within the team.

Nice to haves:

Experience in working in a fast paced environment.

Experience working with Google Cloud Platform, or similar public cloud.

Experience working with Site Reliability principles to drive operational excellence across Engineering.

Solid computer science background

Grow your way

At Mollie, growth is personal. We believe everyone should have the chance to develop their skills, explore new challenges and shape their career on their own terms.

You’ll get regular feedback and performance reviews to support your development, with fair and transparent salary reviews along the way. Many Mollies move into new roles or take on new projects to stretch themselves, and we actively hire from within to help you take the next step.

No matter if you’re aiming for promotion, exploring a different career path or building new skills, you’ll be supported with the tools, trust and opportunities to grow your way.

Unlock your full potential and join us to eliminate financial bureaucracy

If you're excited by the idea of building what’s next, for yourself and for thousands of businesses across Europe, we’d love to hear from you. Apply with your CV (in English) using the form below.

Want a peek behind the scenes? Check out what life at Mollie is really like.

AI at Mollie

We believe in Always Be Shipping, and AI brings that philosophy to life across every team, every role, every day.

AI is core to how we build. It helps us move faster, simplify work and make smarter decisions, creating real impact for the businesses we serve. We’re looking for people who are excited to use AI to shape the future of finance with us.

Our Talent Acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application, and respond within 2 weeks.

Step 2

Screening call

If you seem like a Mollie-in-the-making, we’ll invite you to a screening call so we can learn more about each other.

Step 3

Are you the one?

You'll have two or more interviews. And if it's a highly technical role, we'll also assess the specific skills you'll need.