Engineering Manager - Fintech (Ref: 197673) (Remote)

Engineering Manager - Fintech (Ref: 197673)

Company Overview

Forsyth Barnes is a global talent partner disrupting the recruitment industry. We operate through partnerships over one-time transactions and truly put our clients and candidates at the core of our ethos. We blend relationship building with investments in AI and technology to attract talent for your business.

Job Summary

As Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of approximately 10 software engineers working across backend, frontend, platform, or full-stack development. You will combine strong people leadership, technical understanding, and delivery ownership to help the team build secure, scalable, and reliable financial products. Previous professional experience in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services is essential for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a software engineering team of approximately 10 engineers.
• Hold regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback, support career development, and manage performance effectively.
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA, Compliance, Security, and Engineering leadership.
• Support the delivery of customer-facing banking and payments products from discovery through production.
• Provide technical guidance appropriate to the team’s area, whether backend, frontend, platform, infrastructure, or full-stack engineering.
• Encourage strong standards across architecture, testing, security, reliability, documentation, and maintainability.
• Improve engineering processes, delivery predictability, team communication, and operational effectiveness.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, retention, and succession planning within the engineering organisation.
• Balance short-term product delivery with long-term scalability, resilience, and technical health.
• Promote knowledge sharing, mentoring, pairing, and continuous professional development.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Engineering Lead, or similar people-management role.
• Mandatory previous experience working in fintech, banking, payments, digital banking, lending, insurance technology, or financial services.
• Experience directly managing and developing engineering teams of approximately 8–12 engineers.
• Strong experience with 1:1s, performance management, feedback, career development, and promotion processes.
• A software engineering background in backend, frontend, full-stack, platform, infrastructure, or another relevant discipline.
• Experience leading teams that build, operate, and improve production software used by external customers.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, engineering practices, system reliability, and technical delivery.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a distributed, international environment.
• Understanding of financial products, payment flows, banking integrations, compliance, data security, and operational resilience.
• The ability to engage credibly with engineers while remaining focused on people leadership and business outcomes.
• Strong English communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• A pragmatic leadership style that balances technical quality, team wellbeing, delivery, and commercial priorities.
• Candidates without relevant fintech or financial-services experience will not be considered.

Salary & Benefits

• Base salary of up to €120,000, depending on experience.
• Annual performance bonus and equity.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your dependants, including dental and vision cover.
• Generous holiday allowance and support for sustainable performance.
• Learning budget, leadership development, and mentorship opportunities.
• The opportunity to shape engineering culture and strategy within a growing European fintech.

Location

Germany (Remote)

Employment Type

Full-time