Engineering Manager, Banking — Lead FinTech Systems

Shine; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Shine's Banking Engineering team is expanding across Europe, and we are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a squad of 4-8 engineers. You will own delivery, mentor engineers, and ensure we build reliable financial systems that scale with growth.

You will partner with Product, Design, Compliance and Operations to set technical direction, review proposals, and guide incident responses. This role blends hands-on leadership with system design in a regulated fintech environment, with hybrid or

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers (EM, Tech Lead or Team Lead) and growing their skills.
• Experience with distributed backend systems, data flows, and reliability considerations.
• Comfort working in remote or hybrid teams across multiple countries.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a squad of 4-8 engineers: set clear expectations, give regular feedback, and support each person's growth
• Create clarity on priorities, delivery, and technical direction, working closely with your Product Manager
• Contribute to the definition of your team's OKRs, grounded in customer needs and technical reality
• Work across functions: align with Compliance, Operations, and other engineering teams
• Review technical proposals, ask sharp questions, and help the team make trade-offs explicit
• Contribute directly when it adds value: design documents, code reviews, incident follow-up
• Improve how the team works: delivery practices, observability, reliability, on-call processes
• Be accountable for the reliability and availability of the systems within your team's scope
• In partnership with Product and Design, establish a clear technical vision for your area
• Represent the team's technical choices to peers and leadership

Skills

Engineering management

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Regulated environments

Remote collaboration

Job description

Shine's Banking Engineering team is expanding across Europe, and we are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a squad of 4-8 engineers. You will own delivery, mentor engineers, and ensure we build reliable financial systems that scale with growth.

You will partner with Product, Design, Compliance and Operations to set technical direction, review proposals, and guide incident responses. This role blends hands-on leadership with system design in a regulated fintech environment, with hybrid or