Engineering Manager

At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe. Today, we serve more than 250,000 businesses across Europe with an all-in-one solution that simplifies payments and money management. We’re an 850-strong team of product, finance, support, commerce, and engineering specialists working across Europe.

As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of skilled engineers in defining and delivering the technical roadmap for our products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll help shape product strategy and direction, while representing engineering in key technical discussions. Your work will directly influence product quality, scalability, and innovation, playing a critical role in our overall success.

Your opportunity:

As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of skilled engineers in defining and delivering the technical roadmap for our products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll help shape product strategy and direction, while representing engineering in key technical discussions. Your work will directly influence product quality, scalability, and innovation, playing a critical role in our overall success.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a growing team of application engineers, with a hands-on leadership approach expected from all engineering managers
• Bring strong technical expertise and a proven track record in large-scale distributed systems and/or guiding teams through complex technical transitions
• Drive strategic technical decisions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, and lead cross-domain technical initiatives that align with overall business and product goals
• Identify improvements within the team, propose actionable solutions, and coordinate efforts to improve team velocity and effectiveness
• Help shape the broader domain vision, influence strategic direction, and set goals for ongoing product improvement
• Balance hands-on engineering with big picture thinking, taking pride in mentoring and developing high performing teams
• Maintain a results driven mindset focused on delivering impact at scale and speed

What you have:

• Management Experience: Preferably 2+ years of managing multidisciplinary teams, with a proven ability to recruit, retain, and grow top engineering talent.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and mentor engineering teams. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills. You are a great active listener.
• Engineering Excellence: Significant hands-on experience in various contexts, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full-stack products, preferably on the JVM or PHP stacks.
• Product Sense: A strong understanding of product development principles and a customer-centric approach.
• Bias Towards Action: Balance speed and quality, make quick decisions, and learn from mistakes.
• Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for finding creative solutions to complex challenges.
• Passion and Energy: Demonstrate ownership and enthusiasm, seeing new tasks as opportunities to contribute and grow.
• Always Be Shipping Mindset: It’s about consistently delivering value to customers, where speed and quality go hand in hand.

*Kindly note relocation support is not offered for this position.

Benefits

• 20 days working from abroad — Enjoy the flexibility to work from abroad for 20 days a year (excl high risk countries)
• Wellbeing Budget — Enjoy €60 per month net towards taking care of yourself.
• Lifestyle and Health Support — Reach out for coaching and support whenever you need it via OpenUp.
• 26 holiday days — Time to relax. Plus an extra 2 days off in between 27 and 31 December!
• Commute options — Receive an NS Business Card and participate in our bike lease plan
• Birthday off — It’s your special day! Why spend it at the office?
• WFH Equipment Budget — One off budget of €400 for our new hires.
• Hybrid working — With WFH & Internet allowance at €60 a month.
• Discounted Lunch — Hot and cold meals plus snacks available each day for less than €4 and only pay when you use the service!
• Health Insurance — Insure with ONVZ or receive €125 net towards your own insurance.
• Annual Mollieverse event — All Mollies get together, connect and have fun.