(Senior) Engineering Manager - Advisor Audit

About the Position

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.

Part of something bigger

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 and Belgium.

Your hiring experience matters

Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

📋 Your Role as a (Senior) Engineering Manager

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, not secondary.

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.

We will also consider candidates for a Senior Engineering Manager’s position.

📍 Job located in Berlin, Germany

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: You’ll build a psychologically safe environment, where every engineer feels safe to speak up, take calculated risks, and be truly heard; enabling us to tackle novel challenges together.
• Engineering Excellence: As the driving force behind some of our most critical engineering outcomes, your knowledge and experience will guide the team through complex challenges and critical decision points. You will own the technical implementation, articulating and executing a strong, well-formed architectural vision. Your insights on design, testing, and cloud infrastructure will facilitate the high-stakes decisions that balance immediate business needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Mission Focus: Defining and embodying your team's purpose, you’ll ensure the alignment with the broader organisational strategy by articulating a clear, meaningful mission that gives the team's work purpose, fostering a culture of proactive ownership toward mission success.
• Efficient Delivery: You’ll demonstrate a proactive approach to planning, execution, monitoring, and control to ensure that all deliverables meet the defined scope, quality standards. You’ll optimise the team's delivery flow by reducing overheads, and fostering an environment where engineers can focus on high-value work, ship value often, and avoid burnout. All this is underpinned by an Agile Mindset and strong agile principles, with empowerment to choose the best framework for the team's context.
• Collaboration & Communication: Working hand-in-hand with a Product Manager (PM) and Designer, you’ll collaborate with colleagues beyond your immediate team, championing cross-functional partnership with colleagues and stakeholders across all our global locations. You’ll be an unwavering advocate for our users and customers, focusing on their needs into everything you do. Alongside the PM, Designer, and your brilliant engineers, you will be the architect of your team's operational rhythm, establishing crystal-clear expectations and creating a transparent map of your team's inner workings. You operate with visibility and transparency, ensuring an impact-focused narrative around known technical challenges, and turning potential roadblocks into managed priorities and opportunities.

Senior EM focus only:

• Organisational Impact
• Successfully transition the team to AI-native engineering processes,
• Demonstrate the measurable productivity gains or technical efficiencies gained from the AI adoption.
• Develop the strategic roadmap for the following 12-18 months, focusing on innovation and continuous improvement.

About You

You are a pragmatic leader who can balance leading leaders with hands-on involvement when needed. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, building new teams or projects from scratch, and creating structure as things scale.

Must-Have Experience:

• A strong technical background with the ability to challenge the team effectively and guide them in technical decision-making.
• Familiarity with the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), embracing the "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
• Must have well-formed opinions on software architecture, design patterns, testing methodologies, and cloud infrastructure (specifically AWS)
• Evidenced track-record of Delivery Management and People Leadership
• Possesses a strong agile mindset and deep understanding of Agile principles; pragmatic, not dogmatic.
• Customer Focused with genuine interest in understanding and solving customer problems, not just technical delivery.
• Previous experience in an engineering management position.
• Eagerness to take a hands-on approach when necessary.
• A positive attitude towards continuous learning and personal development.
• Fluent in English.

Note: Specific programming language expertise (e.g., TypeScript, React, Node.js) is not a mandatory requirement. No explicit educational background is specified as a mandatory requirement.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager within a large and complex organisation.
• Active engagement with AI, going beyond superficial understanding, ideally with practical experience in AI adoption (Must have for Senior EM)
• Experience and informed opinions on leveraging AI in software engineering and R&D to boost efficiency.
• Experience and active participation in the discovery phase, working closely with the Product Management and Design functions.
• Familiarity with User-Centred Design and User Experience (UX/UCD) principles.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing practices is beneficial.
• A background or domain knowledge in accounting or FinTech is helpful.

Our Recruitment Process

1️⃣ Screening call with Talent Acquisition: Motivations, leadership style, adaptability

2️⃣ First Interview: A first assessment interview covering leadership, people management, and delivery management

3️⃣ Second Stage Interview: Technical interview to confirm technical capability. Technical skills are confirmed through a live architecture challenge (e.g., a whiteboard session).

4️⃣ Case session: Strategy, architecture, migration, and team leadership

• Simulated Underperforming Engineer: For a leadership challenge conversation.
• Leadership/Problem Solving: Confirmed through a leadership-specific challenge

5️⃣ “Meet the Team”: Meeting with the Product Manager (PM) and Designer, aligning on ways of working, values and team cohesion.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive company culture

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.