Job description
Engineering Manager
Company Overview
topi is a Berlin-based fintech enabling businesses to access IT hardware through flexible subscription and rental models instead of upfront purchases. Our API-first platform allows retailers, manufacturers, and partners to offer hardware subscriptions seamlessly at the point of sale. Following our acquisition by PEAC Solutions - owned by HPS / Blackrock, a global asset finance and leasing platform, topi combines fintech speed with strong financial backing and international scale.
Job Summary
We're looking for product-minded engineers to join our diverse and driven team. This is a hands-on management role where you will lead one of our engineering teams, combining technical depth with people leadership in a senior, product-minded team that values collaboration, impact, and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the outcomes of a team: Be accountable for what your team ships, quality, pace, and direction.
- Grow engineers: Coach a team of mostly senior engineers, set a clear bar for excellence, and create the conditions for them to do their best work.
- Bridge product and engineering: Partner closely with Product and Design to shape roadmaps, balance trade-offs, and turn ambiguous strategy into shipped features.
- Stay hands-on: Write and ship code with your team, participate in code reviews, system design, and architectural decisions, especially on the backend.
- Build a healthy team: Run lightweight, effective rituals (1:1s, retros, planning); give and receive honest feedback; protect focus and sustainability.
- Agentic engineering mindset: Utilize AI coding agents as collaborators and own the production-grade code output.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a production environment, with a strong backend track record.
- 3+ years managing engineering teams of 4 or more people, including 1:1s, performance management, and hiring.
- Hands-on production experience in Go or a comparable backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C#, Rust, Scala).
- Ability to engage in frontend discussions and ship code in React/TypeScript.
- Fluent English and the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs.
Location
Berlin, Germany (On-site)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Trust-based working hours.
- Permanent contracts.
- Flexibility for home-country working.
- Regular team rituals including all-hands, demo sessions, quizzes, and offsites.
- Personal growth opportunities and latest technologies.
