Engineering Manager

As Engineering Manager you will specialise in designing and building the platform, leading the team to meet planned outcomes and delivery goals. Our ideal candidate is eager to constantly modernise our architecture into the latest and greatest while keeping an eye on the stability of our existing platform.

Your team are responsible for designing, building, and scaling the platform whilst having the opportunity to learn all you need to know about A2A payments. Our engineers are inclusive and enthusiastic to cooperate with different teams with versatile cultures and across multiple time zones. Tokenites have an aptitude for leadership and are self-motivated to take on the challenging task of keeping up with the ever-growing world of open payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, architect, and build cutting-edge payment solutions using Java, MariaDB, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, while staying hands-on with development.
• Own the full development lifecycle, driving scalability, security, and performance for complex, real-time financial systems.
• Collaborate with product teams and leadership to transform business needs into innovative technical solutions that shape the future of payments.
• Mentor and grow your team, ensuring high performance and fostering a collaborative, excellence-driven engineering culture.
• Work closely with senior engineers and FinTech giants to continuously improve their platform and develop new, customer-centric features.
• Ensure systems remain reliable, scalable, and secure while driving best practices in architecture and development.

Experience and Qualifications Required

• At least 8-10 years of total engineering experience, including a minimum of 3+ years in engineering management, ideally transitioning from Senior or Principal Engineer roles.
• Proven ability to lead and manage teams of up to 10+ engineers, with experience growing leaders from within, helping struggling team members, and fostering a positive team culture.
• Experience managing at least two agile teams in a fast-paced, dynamic, and culture-dependent environment.
• Strong hands-on expertise with our tech stack: Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and gRPC, with about 30% focus on technical contribution alongside people and project management.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers, grow teams by hiring top senior talent, and build trust and career growth for team members.
• Experience working closely with Product and other stakeholders to develop new features and drive technical innovation.
• Culture and mindset are more important than industry background, though FinTech experience is a plus.
• Role is based in Berlin with a hybrid work model; candidates should be available to work onsite at least once or twice a week.