Engineering Lead (m/f/d)

Riverty; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverty in Amsterdam is seeking an Engineering Lead for Checkout, Consumer & Merchant to guide multiple engineering teams across Berlin, Amsterdam and Tallinn, shaping the next generation of fintech solutions.

You will blend engineering leadership with architecture, ensure delivery excellence while maintaining long-term health, and drive AI-enabled initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and developing engineering leaders.
• Broad software engineering and architectural expertise.
• Product and business mindset translating priorities into technical direction.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated AI fluency translating AI opportunities into engineering practice.
• Ability to create alignment in a complex, international environment.

Responsibilities

• Shape and own the technical direction across multiple teams.
• Lead and grow a team of Engineering Leads, strengthening leadership capabilities.
• Drive engineering and delivery excellence at scale, establishing standards for quality, security, maintainability and modern practices while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Balance delivery with long-term technical sustainability, prioritising technical debt and improvements.
• Drive alignment and continuous improvement across teams, resolving dependencies and systemic challenges.
• Accelerate AI-enabled engineering and lead related change across teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Architectural design

AI fluency

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

International environment

Job description

Everyone’s story matters. Come shape your story with us at Riverty.
But where does that take you?
To one of our 30 hybrid workspaces – designed for exchanging ideas, learning from others, and shaping the way we work. An international community of over 4,000 people, representing almost 80 nationalities across 11 countries. United by one mission: Combining empathy, advanced technology and data-driven insights to keep people and businesses in flow. With payments made for them. So that they don’t have to worry about it.
And there’s more.We are part of the family-owned Bertelsmann group. Established. Corporate. In a fast-paced industry. We enable flexible payments in various industries, simplifying the financial management of known brands and helping people repay debt to build financial confidence. In short: shaping FinTech.

Job Description

We are looking for anEngineering Lead(Checkout, Consumer & Merchant)(m/f/d)
(unlimited, full-time) to join our team at our Berlin,Amsterdamand Tallinn
locations to build the next generation of fintechsolutions.

In this role, you lead a team of Engineering Leads and take responsibility for technical excellence anddelivery ofperformance across multiple engineering teams. Your domainspansourcheckout proposition,experiences for consumers,merchantsand partners as well as our consumer financeofferings.

You combine engineering leadership with architectural and organisational thinking, creating the direction and environment that enable Engineering Leads and their teams to perform at their best. You build alignment across teams, strengthen engineering leadershipcapabilities,and ensure local decisions contribute to a coherent and sustainable technical direction.

Working closely withTechandProductLeadershipand other senior stakeholders, you balance delivery priorities with long-term technical health, ensuring that engineering decisions and investments contribute to product and business goals.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Shape and own the technical direction across multiple teams, translating our architectural vision and business strategy into clear priority guidelines
• Lead,developand grow a team ofEngineering Leads, strengthening their leadership capabilitiesand enabling them to build high-performing teams
• Drive engineering and delivery excellence at scale,establishingconsistentstandardsfor quality, security,maintainabilityand modern engineering practiceswhile ensuringregulatorycompliance
• Balance delivery with long-term technical sustainability, partnering with Product and Tech Leadershipto 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 engineeringeffectivenessand enabling teams tooperatewithappropriate autonomy
• Accelerate AI-enabled engineering and lead the related change,identifyinghigh-value use cases, fosteringadoptionand scaling successful practices across teams

Qualifications

What will help to succeed in the role:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and developing engineering leaders, with the ability to create impact through others andoperateeffectively across multiple teams
• Broadsoftware engineering and architecturalexpertise, with the ability to reason about complex systems, technical trade-offs and architecture across frontend, backend,dataand cloud technologies
• Aproduct 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 changerequiredfor effective adoption
• Ability to create alignment in a complex, international environment, navigating different perspectives and enabling effective decision-making across organisational boundaries

Additional Information

Disclosure requirements pertaining to the collection of your personal data:

Responsible for processing the information provided in your application is the company specified in the job advertisement, with its registered office as indicated. The company processes your data for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 (1) b GDPR / Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG.

The retention period for your data is determined by the statutory time limits applicable in the respective country, beginning upon completion of the recruitment process. You can find these here .

You can contact the company’s Data Protection Officer at the above-mentioned postal address.

Further information on data protection and your rights can be found here .

Work Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1079 MZ