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About the Role
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll help to elevate your team's technical standards by championing sustainable development, prioritising operational excellence, and fostering a quality-first mindset. You’ll strike a balance between ambitious technical goals and pragmatic delivery, ensuring that reliability, security, and long-term scalability are integral. The Engineering Manager shall ensure that the team's purpose and accountability are tightly integrated with the organisation's strategic objectives, creating an environment where engineers can dedicate their focus to high-value work, consistently shipping value early and often. In joining a newly formed team, you’ll be joining a dynamic environment in which ambiguity is not a hurdle, but an opportunity. You’ll have the confidence to navigate evolving priorities and shifting landscapes with a forward-looking perspective, and convert uncertainty into focused action, leveraging the energy of change to drive innovation.
Responsibilities
- Own outcomes and help the team deliver what matters.
- Build and grow a strong, motivated team.
- Guide technical decisions and be accountable for the implementation.
- Bring strong technical judgement on testing, observability, incident response readiness, and security/privacy/data compliance ownership and embrace “you build it, you run it.”
- Help the team find the ways of working that work best for them.
- Work closely with Product, Design, EMs and the Domain Engineer.
- Keep customer needs at the heart of decisions.
- Use AI in practical ways to improve how we build software.
- Form the team and build relationships.
- Define the mission, vision and roadmap with the trio.
- Set up the team for successful delivery.
- Establish the team's ways of working.
- Start AI adoption within the team.
- Deliver the first building blocks of the global accounting kernel.
- Establish a sustainable delivery rhythm.
- Move towards AI-native engineering practices.
- Continue delivering and evolving the accounting kernel to 9+ europeen countries.
- Build a strong, high-performing team.
- Further embed AI-native engineering practices.
- Support other teams and domains.
- Contribute to the wider engineering organisation.
- Help set up or accelerate AI adoption across R&D.
Requirements
- 2+ years Engineering Management experience, ideally with experience in a second EM role.
- Strong technical background and ability to challenge technical decisions.
- Full SDLC and DevOps experience: testing, observability, incident response readiness, and security/privacy/data compliance ownership - "you build it, you run it."
- Strong and production-proven opinions on architecture, design, testing and cloud (AWS preferred).
- Strong Delivery Management experience: own the roadmap, steer timeline conversations on metrics, drive forecasting, balance feature work against technical improvements, operations and maintenance.
- Strong People Leadership experience: run structured 1:1s, manage the career development, have direct performance conversations, establish an inclusive environment with high psychological safety.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Strong Agile mindset, with experience in Kanban or similar.
- Customer-focused and able to connect technical work to customer problems.
- Active engagement with AI beyond experimentation - proven experience in using AI inside of software engineering/R&D.
- Discovery experience working with Product and Design.
- TDD and/or BDD experience.
- Accounting or FinTech background.
Skills
- Delivery Management
- People Leadership
- Technical Leadership
- Architecture
- DevOps
- Agile
- Kanban
- Customer Focus
- AI
- Discovery
- TDD
- BDD
Location
- Berlin
- Copenhagen
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
- Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin.
- Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
- Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
- Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
- We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.