Engineering Director

Trustly is leading the human-centric payments revolution. To us, this means passionately building the most convenient, intelligent and responsible way of paying for things online. Whether it’s for shopping, paying subscriptions, funding trading accounts, booking airfare, playing online games and much more – we’re all about a better way to pay. At our core, we are a tech company with industry-leading tech capabilities. But, it’s the ingenuity of our people that makes us leaders in our field. Thus, our appetite for innovation will never be anything less than fierce. Trustly is steadily growing as it connects thousands of businesses with hundreds of millions of people. And with a strong presence across Europe and the Americas, we are leading the human-centric payment revolution as a truly global team.

About the Product & Tech organisation

Our Product & Technology organisation drives the development of Trustly’s products. The cross functional teams collectively work with innovative ideas, development of products and platform and set the vision and strategy for the problem spaces they own. The Product & Tech organisation consists of a bit more than 200 people spread across Stockholm, Lisbon, Örebro, Paris, London and Izmir.

All teams consist of a product manager, an engineering manager, a lead developer and engineers. Some teams also have designers and analytics competence in the team. They all work closely together to enable new products and features within existing products within Europe and to make sure the payment platform runs without interruptions and with high performance.

About the role

As an Engineering Director at Trustly, you will lead and shape a critical domain, consisting of a set of teams within our technology organization. You will partner with a Product Manager (PM) counterpart, together define and own the domain's mission, organization and outcomes. Your leadership will influence the organization’s technical direction, team engagement and culture while ensuring alignment with Trustly’s mission to create seamless, frictionless payment experiences.

What you'll do

• Domain Leadership
• Manage and oversee a domain consisting of multiple engineering managers and teams
• Partner closely with a Product Manager (PM) counterpart to jointly deliver on the domain’s objectives, forming a cohesive leadership duo
• Work closely with your PM counterparts to deeply understand business problems and translate them into effective organizational, architectural and technical solutions
• Drive operational and technical excellence, take ownership of the domain’s delivery, technical roadmap and key architectural decisions
• Balance innovation and delivering with speed with scalability, reliability, and performance requirements
• Coach and shape the organization towards high-performing teams
• Advocate for and implement best practices in software engineering, ensuring alignment to Trustly’s standards, processes and ways-of-working
• Engineering Leadership
• As a member of Trustly's Senior Technology Leadership team help drive improvements to Trustly's engineering competence
• Play a key role in attracting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent for Trustly
• Shape Trustly engineering standards, processes and ways-of-working
• Build a culture of Empowerment and Servant Leadership

Who you are

• Proven experience as manager of managers, managing multiple engineering teams
• Demonstrated success partnering with product management and design in building
• Empowered product development teams
• Strong technical expertise with an engineering background and history of driving architectural excellence
• Experience from building mission critical systems for high transaction environments
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices
• Strong communication, coaching, and leadership skills
• Ability to effectively balance technical leadership with people management and delivery