Engineering Manager AI Engineering & AI Platform (mfx)

Shape the future of our AI Engineering and AI Platform capabilities within the Data Science and AI tribe. We are building a new team of AI Software Engineers and AI Platform Engineers to bring AI use cases into production at scale.

We are looking for a passionate and motivated Engineering Manager to lead this newly formed team. As the EM you will play a key role in turning AI concepts data science ideas and business opportunities into scalable backend systems cloud-native architectures agentic workflows and internal AI platform services.

We are not training models from scratch. Instead your team will integrate modern AI capabilities via APIs from providers such as OpenAI Anthropic Google and others and build the platform foundation required to use them securely reliably and cost-effectively.

• Build and lead a new AI Engineering and AI Platform team helping engineers grow and the team become self-organized agile and autonomous
• Provide technical direction for AI/LLM services backend systems AWS architectures Terraform infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and agentic workflows
• Drive the end-to-end implementation of AI use cases from ideation and technical scoping to delivery rollout monitoring and maintenance
• Shape our internal AI platform for model access MCP server integrations observability governance rate limiting and cost management
• Work closely with Data Science Product Engineering Security Platform and business stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value AI use cases
• Establish engineering best practices for reliable secure maintainable and production-grade AI systems
• Be part of the recruitment process to attract and onboard new colleagues for the team

Qualifications :

• A university degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science Software Engineering Mathematics Natural Sciences or a comparable qualification
• Previous experience in software engineering backend engineering platform engineering cloud engineering or AI engineering
• Experience leading engineers as an Engineering Manager Team Lead Tech Lead or in a comparable role
• Strong understanding of scalable backend systems cloud-native architectures API design and modern software development practices
• Good knowledge of modern AI system integration including LLM APIs agentic workflows and production-grade AI services
• Hands-on experience with Python Docker CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code preferably AWS and Terraform
• Understanding of AI platform topics such as observability governance data privacy rate limiting cost management and secure LLM usage
• Passion for people development technical excellence and building high-performing engineering teams
• Strong analytical thinking both in the technical and business domain
• Excellent communication skills that are clear concise and tailored to engineering product and business stakeholders
• Extreme sense of ownership and a pragmatic hands-on mentality
• Experience with LangGraph LiteLLM Langfuse Datadog MCP servers or similar technologies is a plus

Additional Information :

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international diverse inclusive and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• International relocation support is provided if required 
• Opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 50% for the Deutschland Jobticket
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capitals PRIME Broker
• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time