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. We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong backend engineering background to lead one of our engineering teams. This is a hands-on management role where you will set direction, coach engineers, and ship production code alongside your team.
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, Especially on the Backend: Write and ship code with your team, participate in code reviews, system design, and architectural decisions.
- Build a Healthy Team: Run effective rituals (1:1s, retros, planning) and provide honest feedback.
- Agentic Engineering Mindset: Effectively utilize and manage AI coding agents in the development workflow.
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.
- Technical credibility with hands-on experience in Go or a comparable backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C#, Rust, Scala).
- Willingness to engage with React/TypeScript frontend.
- Clear, direct, and kind communication style.
- Fluent English.
Location
Berlin, Germany
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Impact from Day One
- Trust-based working hours
- Permanent contracts
- Flexibility for home-country working
- Team rituals, all-hands meetings, demo sessions, and offsites
