Job description
Engineering Manager, Product
Company Overview
Founded in Helsinki in 2007, Epassi is a pioneer in digital employee benefits and payments, and the leading global multi-benefits platform with a strong presence in the Nordics, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and France. Epassi’s innovative, unique and scalable solution combines all benefits into one mobile app-centric, user-friendly digital service. Epassi Group serves more than 50,000 employers and their over 30 million employees, with a partner network of more than 100,000 service providers.
Job Summary
As an Engineering Manager for our user-facing experiences, you will lead a cross-functional team of 3–8 engineers building services spanning areas such as onboarding, benefits surfaces, discovery, activity rewards, or our B2B employer and merchant portals. Your main objective is to build a high-performing, collaborative team, maintain a high bar for quality and delivery, and help your engineers grow.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 3-8 software engineers.
- Drive a positive team culture aligned with Epassi’s values.
- Coordinate effective communication and collaboration within your team and across departments.
- Drive technical execution and delivery of platform roadmap initiatives.
- Establish and maintain engineering standards, best practices, and coding standards (React, React Native, Java/SpringBoot).
- Own the reliability and quality of your team’s services, including API contracts, SLAs, and documentation.
- Remove blockers and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
- Recruit, interview, and hire top software engineering talent.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Staff Engineers to define technical requirements and architectural decisions.
- Leverage AI-native development tools and workflows to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Completed technical degree or equivalent qualification.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a hands-on background (Java/SpringBoot and/or React/React Native).
- 2–3+ years of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong technical foundation across Java backend, React Native, and React Web.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven experience leading and motivating development teams.
- Strong background working within agile development frameworks.
Location
Germany (Remote)
Employment Type
Full Time
