Engineering Manager fmd - BerlinHybrid

Our vision is to provide small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) with effortless access to the best financing solutions. For this purpose FinCompare connects SMEs financial institutions and financing advisors digitally and personally on its unique market platform in order to achieve the best possible financing result in each case. Join us on our journey to become Germanys largest financing platform for SMEs.

Software Engineering is at the heart of FinCompares business. We are looking to extend our team with driven individuals who find pleasure in delivering great solutions that lead our customers to success. We want you to help us make impactful choices in an agile environment so that we stay ahead of the curve with innovative and effective products.
Our mission: Develop outstanding software faster.

Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

As Engineering Manager at FinCompare you will be the bridge between Business and Engineering playing a key role in the companys success trio of Lead Engineer Product Manager and Business Domain Expert. In tight collaboration with other leaders engineers and stakeholders you focus on developing our technical capabilities that achieve great feature development productivity system health and team health.

Your Key Responsibilities

• 50/50 people management and handson coding
• Mentor and help your team of 4 engineers grow by identifying their strengths reviewing their work doing pair programming and giving actionable advice and constructive feedback
• Be a role model for good code quality good engineering and architecture practices
• Plan and drive Tech OKRs KPIs and metrics and help your team become more datadriven
• Contribute to the existing GoLang codebase and help accelerate the team on the path to a more loosely coupled system architecture to ensure higher productivity and reliability of the platform
• Contribute to the implementation of the DDD approach to create a bridge between Tech and Business
• Help implement FitnessFunctiondriven development within your team
• Work closely with the PM who is your counterpart and represent the technical side in discussions or Event Storming sessions with the business side
• Follow RACI when making technical decisions together with your team as well as business stakeholders

Your Profile

• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience leading a crossfunctional team
• 2 years of production experience with GoLang
• You have experience with distributed systems and legacy software
• You are a servant leader your success is through the success of your team
• You enjoy mentoring guiding and helping your team grow by identifying their strengths
• You have experience working with OKRs and can take responsibility for your teams performance and the deliverables of quarterly goals
• You build it you run it mindset youre not afraid of taking ownership and will empower your team to do the same

Our Setup

• Teams: 3 crossfunctional ProductEngineering Platform Data Enabling & Support
• 1 Python monolith in Django and 14 Golang services in the Backend
• TypeScript React in the Frontend
• REST gRPC for interservice communication
• Terraform and AWS services
• Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry via Jaeger Sentry.io
• Containerised software on k8s (EKS) via ArgoCD and CrossPlane across various cluster environments
• Fully automated CI/CD using Github actions and GitOps approach
• UnitTests Selenium WebDriver and integration/API tests (Gherkinbased)
• GitHub Slack Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Your Benefits

• The unique opportunity to build the largest corporate finance platform with us
• Trustbased working hours 30 days of vacation per year and the possibility of up to 180 days of workation per year
• Supported pension plan employee discounts team events etc
• Modern working at home and/or in our Berlin office and the technical equipment of your choice
• A highly motivated and multinational team that values cooperation and open communication

Diversity & Inclusion

At FinCompare we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace drives innovation creativity and success. As such we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and experiences.

We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply and intend to consider all applications equally regardless of sex ethnicity ancestry religion national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability or gender identity.