Engineering Manager - Billing & Payments

• Shape a new engineering team from the ground up within the Billing & Payments Tribe, designing the experiences that define how customers pay and how partners get paid. • Lead and grow a distributed team of 5–6 engineers across Germany, Romania, and other engineering hubs as an experienced people leader. • Join a four-day Flexi-Week company hiring across ten European cities with hybrid/remote flexibility.

• Bring 8+ years of experience in software engineering. • Have 2+ years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role, with Technical Leads transitioning into management also welcome. • Demonstrate experience building and scaling teams in distributed environments. • Hold a strong coaching mindset with a passion for developing people. • Show confidence operating in a financial or payments domain such as billing, invoicing, payment flows, or compliance. • Maintain a solid technical foundation allowing you to understand and discuss architecture, system design, testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices. • Take a data-informed approach to decision-making with a bias toward observability and learning. • Communicate clearly and thoughtfully, adapting to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Bring experience shaping a team from the ground up rather than inheriting an established one. • Have a proactive mindset toward AI and emerging technologies with curiosity and willingness to experiment and leverage them for team efficiency. • Show experience defining team goals, priorities, and OKRs in partnership with Product Management. • Demonstrate experience with hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and individual development planning in a distributed setting. • Hold experience contributing to engineering-wide strategy beyond your own team. • Bring experience considering long-term technical strategy, trade-offs, and system interactions across a complex domain.

• Lead and grow a team of 5–6 engineers across Germany, Romania, and other engineering hubs. • Coach and mentor engineers, supporting both career growth and technical excellence. • Foster strong feedback loops that support continuous learning and improvement. • Create a safe, empowering environment where decisions are delegated and ownership is clear. • Partner closely with Product Management to define team goals, priorities, and OKRs. • Own delivery commitments and continuously improve team effectiveness and predictability. • Collaborate with other tribes, platform teams, and enabling teams including Product, DevOps, UX, and InfoSec. • Support hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and individual development planning. • Represent your team toward stakeholders and contribute to engineering-wide strategy.

• Work a four-day Flexi-Week at full pay with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week and no reduction to annual holiday allowance. • Work in a flexible hybrid/remote scheme across Awin regions from Amsterdam, Berlin, Hannover, Iași, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, or Warsaw. • Receive a monthly work expense contribution and a remote working furniture package. • Access health and wellbeing initiatives and sports offers. • Develop through the Awin Academy training suite covering professional and personal growth. • Recognise colleagues through a peer-to-peer voucher programme.

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