Our Series D FinTech client is building the infrastructure behind how 1.5m+ people save, invest and plan for retirement.
The company reached profitability last year, they currently manage €70bn+ in assets and have generated €6bn+ in interest for customers through 275+ banking partnerships across Europe. Their next chapter goes beyond savings - building a European wealth platform spanning investing, brokerage and pensions.
Role Overview:
You’ll join as Director of Engineering, leading a 40+ person organisation building the technology behind brokerage, investment and pension products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop a multi-team engineering organisation responsible for investment, brokerage, pension and digital wealth products.
- Scale the engineering group while defining the leadership structure, team boundaries and operating model needed for its next phase of growth.
- Drive the technology behind an expanding brokerage proposition, including individual equities and ETFs.
- Evolve the pension platform by introducing broader investment and brokerage capabilities within retirement products.
- Partner closely with Product, Investment and commercial stakeholders to translate new financial propositions into scalable technical systems.
- Support expansion across European markets, adapting products and underlying systems to different regulatory, operational and taxation requirements.
- Balance strategic engineering leadership with sufficient technical depth to challenge architecture, execution and system-design decisions.
Qualifications:
- Strong engineering leadership experience across multiple teams.
- Meaningful exposure to investment, brokerage, wealth-management or closely related fintech products.
- A background combining product thinking with genuine technical and systems expertise.
- Comfortable operating in environments where reliability, transaction speed, financial controls and customer obligations are fundamental engineering concerns.
- Willingness to work from the Berlin office two days per week.
This is an opportunity to shape the engineering organisation behind products that help 1.5m+ people put their money to work - expanding from savings into investing, brokerage and retirement products at European scale. We’d love to hear from you.
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