Engineering Lead, FinTech & AI Platforms

Jobster; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverty is seeking an Engineering Lead (Checkout, Consumer & Merchant) to join our Berlin, Amsterdam and Tallinn teams. You will shape technical direction across multiple squads, lead Engineering Leads, and drive delivery excellence with a focus on AI-enabled engineering and compliance.

Collaboration with Product and Tech Leadership will be essential to balance short-term delivery with long-term health. You will enable teams to perform at their best, foster alignment across international

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and developing engineering leaders.
• Broad software engineering and architectural expertise across frontend, backend, data and cloud technologies.
• A product and business mindset, with the ability to translate business priorities into technical direction and drive execution across teams.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated AI fluency, with the ability to translate AI opportunities into engineering practice and lead the organisational change required for effective adoption.
• Ability to create alignment in a complex, international environment, navigating different perspectives and enabling effective decision-making across organisational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Shape and own the technical direction across multiple teams, translating our architectural vision and business strategy into clear priority guidelines.
• Lead, develop and grow a team of Engineering Leads, strengthening their leadership capabilities and enabling them to build high-performing teams.
• Drive engineering and delivery excellence at scale, establishing consistent standards for quality, security, maintainability and modern engineering practices while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Balance delivery with long-term technical sustainability, partnering with Product and Tech Leadership to prioritise technical debt and structural improvements alongside business priorities and customer needs.
• Drive alignment and continuous improvement across teams, resolving dependencies and systemic challenges, improving engineering effectiveness and enabling teams to operate with appropriate autonomy.
• Accelerate AI-enabled engineering and lead the related change, identifying high-value use cases, fostering adoption and scaling successful practices across teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software architecture

Product mindset

Stakeholder management

AI fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Riverty is seeking an Engineering Lead (Checkout, Consumer & Merchant) to join our Berlin, Amsterdam and Tallinn teams. You will shape technical direction across multiple squads, lead Engineering Leads, and drive delivery excellence with a focus on AI-enabled engineering and compliance.

Collaboration with Product and Tech Leadership will be essential to balance short-term delivery with long-term health. You will enable teams to perform at their best, foster alignment across international