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

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.

Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from  more than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns.

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)

This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape,  an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships.

At Raisin, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).

The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams.

This embraces the six impact areas (in details below):

Delivery quality and speed

Domain ownership

Team and culture

Data strategy

Process and compliance

Your Responsibilities

Delivery quality and speed

The DE is:

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

The DE:

drives long-term value creation for their domain

is fostering 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

The DE:

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

is always considering 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

The DE is:

fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams

offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well

encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility

attracting, hiring, and retaining top technical talent for Raisin from around the world

proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members

ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams

organizing workshops/hackathons

representing the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition

shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices

nurturing and protecting our culture of trust

initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)

recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams

Process and Compliance

The DE:

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, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt

Your Profile

You hold a university degree in Computer Science,  Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experience

Leadership experience 10y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and teams, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams

You have at least 4y experience in FinTech

Domain knowledge of Investment products is a strong advantage

Strong business mindset

Strong AWS knowledge, Java, SQL, Kafka or other messaging solutions

You are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations

You bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills

You motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

You possess solid engineering background and distinct hands-on mentality

You are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements

You are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraints

You are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus

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