Engineering Manager Data Integration

A provider changes their API without warning. Your team catches it before a single customer notices. And the only feedback you get is a question about why the next integration is taking so long.

If that sounds familiar we should talk.

At Anyfin were looking for an Engineering Manager who doesnt just keep the integrations running but builds the team and the platform that make the next one easier. Someone who can lead people set technical direction and still be useful in a pull request.

Anyfin helps people refinance expensive consumer credit on better terms. Since 2017 weve helped people across Sweden Finland and Germany take back control of their finances. Were profitable we have a banking licence that lets us operate across the EU and were getting ready to launch new products and enter new markets. Our ambition is to be a pan-European company by 2030.

Almost every one of those steps starts with an integration. A new market means new credit bureaus banks and payment providers each with its own formats quirks and opinions about uptime.

The team is small and intentionally so. Wed rather grow what each engineer can do than how many engineers we have.

Youll lead a small team of engineers building and running the integrations that connect Anyfin to the outside world. Youll own how the team works what it builds next and how good it gets at it. Youll report to our CTO.

Youll build the team. Hiring onboarding 1:1s feedback and growth. Youll help each engineer get better at what they do and make the team stronger than the sum of its parts.

Youll make integration repeatable. The first integration in a new market shouldnt feel like the first integration ever. Youll shape the patterns tooling and data contracts that turn each new provider from a project into a routine.

Youll own reliability. When an integration fails a credit decision or a payout can fail with it. Youll make sure the team knows first fixes fast and learns something each time.

Youll stay close to the code. This is a hands-on role. Youll review pair design and build alongside the team because good technical leadership needs proximity.

Youll balance speed and quality. Regulated lending doesnt forgive sloppy systems but it doesnt reward over-engineering either. Youll know the difference and help the team know it too.

Youll work across the business. Product credit data and operations all depend on the data your team brings in. Youll shape priorities with them not just receive them.

AI isnt a side tool here. Its built into how we work across engineering analytics operations and product and our tech team has built an AI-connected data and code environment on frontier models.

Integration work is a good place to see the difference. Reading provider documentation mapping schemas writing tests and investigating odd payloads are exactly the kind of work AI can speed up. But the data you bring in increasingly feeds systems that act on it without questioning it.

Part of this role is working out how to lead in that world. Not by mandating tools but by helping the team get better with them and being honest about where they dont help yet.

Youll work with talented engineers data engineers product managers and credit experts who care a lot about getting things right. Share a half-formed idea on Friday and someone will have a prototype on Monday. We prefer it that way.

Theyre also generous with what they know quick to laugh and happy to change their minds when you make a better case. As long as you can back it up.

Youve led engineering teams for several years ideally with a focus on backend systems or data integration in a product company. Youve hired and developed engineers and youve learned something from every team youve led.

Youve built mission-critical backend software in TypeScript and Node and deployed it on Kubernetes ideally on GCP. Youve integrated with external APIs and providers and you know that the documentation is a starting point not a promise. Our main stack is TypeScript and Node on the backend React and React Native on the frontend plus Python Go Kubernetes and GCP. The judgment you bring matters more than ticking every box.

Youre pragmatic. You care about clean maintainable code get a little too excited about reliability and have very little patience for over-engineering.

You make decisions and create clarity without creating politics. People want to work for you and they get better while they do.

Experience from fintech lending or another regulated environment is a plus but not a requirement.

More than anything you can tell us about a team you made better. Not just what it shipped but how it worked differently because you were there.

This is a hands-on leadership role. If you want to step fully away from the code or if what you really want is to stay an individual contributor this probably isnt your role.

This role is based at our office on Drottninggatan 92 in Stockholm and we work from the office. We think great teams and culture are built when people meet in person especially at this stage.

EU work authorisation is required.

If youd rather build integrations that just work than explain why the last one broke wed love to hear from you.