Engineering Manager - Fintech Payments

Delivery Hero
Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Conflict coaching","Communication","Systems thinking","Project management"]

Lead a Payments engineering team of 6–10 backend engineers, combining people leadership with deep technical judgment. Drive delivery through planning, prioritization, and blocker removal while maintaining engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability. Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team roadmap and represent engineering in cross-functional forums. Maintain a healthy on-call culture with blameless post-mortems and systemic issue follow-up.

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3 days ago

Engineering Manager - Fintech Payments

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Job Summary

Lead a Payments engineering team of 6–10 backend engineers, combining people leadership with deep technical judgment. Drive delivery through planning, prioritization, and blocker removal while maintaining engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and reliability. Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team roadmap and represent engineering in cross-functional forums. Maintain a healthy on-call culture with blameless post-mortems and systemic issue follow-up.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own day-to-day leadership of a team of 6–10 backend engineers, including 1:1s, performance cycles, hiring, and onboarding.
  • •Provide technical depth through participation in design reviews, architectural discussions, and RFC feedback to raise quality of thinking.
  • •Own team-level delivery by planning, prioritizing, and removing blockers while balancing quality and velocity.
  • •Partner with product, data, and business stakeholders to shape the team roadmap and translate technical constraints into product tradeoffs.
  • •Maintain engineering standards and on-call health, including code quality, testing, observability, reliability, incident resolution, and blameless post-mortems.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveLearning BudgetMeal AllowanceEquityPension

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience managing engineering teams (6+) in a fast-paced environment, coaching through conflict and building a cohesive squad.
  • •Strong technical background in distributed systems with JVM/Kotlin/Java, able to evaluate architectural patterns for consistency, idempotency, and scaling.
  • •Experience with a high-throughput Postgres/Kafka stack and a strong understanding of observability (SLOs/SLIs) and CI/CD.
  • •Agile project management skills with a track record of delivering complex, cross-team projects on time without burning out the team.
  • •Fintech payments context with knowledge of auditability and PCI-DSS compliance, plus clear communication skills across technical and business audiences.
Experience:FintechPaymentsDistributed systems
Skills:LeadershipConflict coachingCommunicationSystems thinkingProject management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JVMKotlinJavaPostgresKafkaRFCsObservabilitySLOsSLIsCI/CDAgile

Company Brief

Delivery Hero
Global online food-ordering and local delivery platform operating multiple regional brands (e.g., Foodpanda, Glovo, Talabat) across 50–70+ countries, supplying food and quick-commerce deliveries via marketplace and logistics services.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2011
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