Engineering Manager - In-store – Remote-First Product & Engineering

🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 14 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.

We’re hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the development of a new In-store payment solution. You’ll spend more or less 50% of your time close to the code, writing, reviewing, mentoring, improving CI/CD, and shaping architecture. You’ll define the technical roadmap, drive scalable delivery, and foster a collaborative, high-performing team.

You’ll be part of a fully remote Pan-European Product and Engineering team that operates in an Agile environment. Your team is cross-functional, with experts in Product Design, iOS development, Android development and backend engineering. They are located across Europe, in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and other countries.

• Spend around 50% of your time actively coding, making informed technical decisions, identifying risks early, and ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions using modern engineering practices
• Define and own the product’s problem space, vision, and KPIs. Shape the technical roadmap in close partnership with senior leadership, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to boost team productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture. Mentor and coach team members, support their career development, and contribute to recruiting and retaining top talent
• Act as a key liaison between engineering and other departments. Ensure alignment, provide clear updates on progress and challenges, and advocate for the tools and resources your team needs to succeed

• Kotlin, Ktor, Mongo
  
  DB, OpenAPI, Docker
• AWS, Event Sourcing, Kubernetes, Kotest

• +10 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• +5 years in a leadership role within an engineering-focused department, with a proven track record of managing successful teams and delivering highly scalable infrastructure
• Desire to spend approximately 50% of your time hands-on, making informed decisions while identifying technical risks
• Ability to align engineering decisions with business strategy and understand their impact on overall objectives
• Proven experience designing scalable products and improving engineering processes, tools, and methodologies for better efficiency and quality
• Fluent in English (CEFR C1 or C2);
  French, German or Dutch or any additional European languages is a plus
• Experience in the payment or financial services industry is a plus

• You don't have extensive experience with JVM-based languages
• You are seeking for a hands-off Engineering Manager role
• You don’t have at least +5 years of experience in leading engineering teams

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.