Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain (m/f/d)

About the Position

Raisin is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the FinTech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK, and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing. Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market.

For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director of Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers).

Responsibilities

Delivery Quality and Speed

• Accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their business-owners in time, scope, and budget
• Responsible for the performance of their teams
• Resolving impediments for their teams
• Nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability
• Ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• Leading both complex technical and important business projects
• Leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives

Domain Ownership

• Drives long-term value creation for their domain
• Fosters an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe
• Builds resilient domain expertise in their teams
• Has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams
• Collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders
• Vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing vendors)

Tech Strategy

• Shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs
• Collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy
• Actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions
• Considers the strategic benefits and price of:
  • Keeping an existing technical solution
  • Introducing a new alternative (e.g., framework, tech stack, tooling, process)

Team and Culture

• Fully responsible for the health, resilience, high performance, and development of their teams
• Offers direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well
• Encourages accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility
• Attracts, hires, and retains top technical talent for Raisin from around the world
• Proactively mentors and coaches individual team members
• Ensures a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• Organizes workshops/hackathons
• Represents the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition
• Shapes and drives knowledge transfer best practices
• Nurtures and protects our culture of trust
• Initiates, owns, and nurtures tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)
• Recognizes high performance and rewards accomplishments within their teams

Process and Compliance

• Drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, regulation, and data privacy
• Contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation
• Develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization
• Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams
• Is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams
• Actively monitors, analyzes, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or equivalent practical experience
• Leadership experience of 10+ years
• At least 4 years of experience in FinTech
• Domain knowledge of Investment products is a strong advantage
• Strong business mindset
• Strong AWS, Java, SQL, Kafka, or other messaging solutions knowledge
• Pragmatic and can handle the balance between taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations
• Strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Solid engineering background and distinct hands-on mentality
• Experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements
• Familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraints
• Fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus

We Offer

• Employee Development Budget of €2,000 and four full training days per year
• Flexible working hours, home office, and 30 vacation days
• A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%
• Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month
• Do you miss being in the office? The Deutschland Ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month
• Love cycling? With JobRad, lease the bike of your choice and enjoy tax savings, plus Raisin covers your monthly insurance costs
• Hungry all the time? Snacks, daily fresh fruit, as well as drinks provided at the office
• You are moving from another country or city to join us? We may support your relocation

About the Company

At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 75 different nationalities.

We value diversity and the unique experiences each individual brings. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.