Engineering Manager - Banking
Company Overview
Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Banking Engineering at Shine
Banking Engineering at Shine covers a wide scope: core financial infrastructure, customer-facing banking products, onboarding and compliance flows, and the operational systems that keep everything running reliably. The teams here work on problems where correctness, reliability, and regulatory expectations are not secondary concerns.
We are looking for Engineering Managers to join different teams within Banking. During the interview process, we will explore where your experience could have the strongest impact.
Your role as Engineering Manager, Banking
You will manage a squad of 4-8 engineers within a defined scope in the Banking organisation. You will be responsible for the team's delivery, the professional growth of the engineers reporting to you, and the quality of the technical decisions made within your scope.
What you will do
- Manage, coach, and support a squad of 4-8 engineers: set clear expectations, give regular feedback, and support each person's growth
- Create clarity on priorities, delivery, and technical direction, working closely with your Product Manager
- Contribute to the definition of your team's OKRs, making sure they are grounded in customer needs, business priorities, and technical reality
- Work across functions: align with Compliance, Operations, and other engineering teams on shared scope and dependencies
- Review technical proposals, ask sharp questions, and help the team make trade-offs explicit before decisions are made
- Contribute directly when it adds value: design documents, code reviews, incident follow-up, pairing on complex implementations
- Improve how the team works: delivery practices, observability, reliability, on-call processes, and engineering quality
- Be accountable for the reliability and availability of the systems within your team's scope, including how they are monitored, operated, and improved over time
- In partnership with Product and Design, establish a clear technical vision for your area
- Represent the team's technical choices and trade-offs to peers and leadership
Requirements / Qualifications
- Engineering management experience: You have at least a first experience managing engineers, either as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Team Lead.
- Engineering background: You need to be credible in technical conversations across the area: how data flows through backend systems, where correctness constraints come from, and how technical decisions shape customer and operational outcomes.
- Distributed systems experience: You're comfortable with event-driven architectures, asynchronous systems, and the trade-offs that come with them.
- Comfort in regulated environments: You understand why correctness, auditability, and reliability are non-negotiable in financial systems.
- Clarity in complexity: You are comfortable creating structure in ambiguous environments.
- Communication across audiences: You can explain a technical trade-off to an engineer, a PM, a Compliance lead, and a VP.
- Distributed and multicultural teams: You have experience working in remote or hybrid environments, with teams across different countries and cultures.
Location
We are flexible. You can work hybrid from one of our hubs (Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin) or fully remote, with regular travel for team meetups.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.
Our recruitment process
- 1. A 45’ introductory call with Talent Acquisition Specialist.
- 2. 60’ call with an engineering manager to discuss the role and your previous management experience.
- 3. 60' System Design exercise a distributed-systems problem.
- 4. 60' Case Study with a cross-functional group.
- 5. A soft skills interview, followed by a team meeting.
