Engineering Lead (d/f/m) in Berlin

Paymenttools is on a mission to transform the payment landscape for retailers in Europe. With more than 4,4 billion visitors per year in our more than 15,000 REWE Group stores and travel agencies in 21 countries we know exactly what consumers and merchants need when exchanging goods for money. We strongly believe in making payments seamless and invisible, linking them with value added services within the framework of a reliable identity service. Our mantra: #wesolvepayn. We blend cutting-edge technology with stringent security to protect sensitive payment data while nurturing innovation in a cloud-native tech environment.

As an Engineering Lead (d/f/m), you’ll lead and empower a team of 5 engineers working on business-critical payment systems, including POS acceptance and our integration with Worldline Pay. You’ll create an environment where people grow, take ownership and deliver with confidence. Combining strong people leadership with technical expertise and a clear focus on quality, you’ll help your team become more autonomous, strengthen engineering practices and drive reliable outcomes. Working closely with Product, Architecture and other engineering teams, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we build, collaborate and deliver technology that matters.

• Empower your team to grow and take ownership: Lead, coach and develop engineers, providing clear expectations, regular feedback and opportunities for growth. Build a culture of trust, accountability and shared responsibility, helping your team become increasingly autonomous.
• Drive predictable delivery and meaningful outcomes: Take ownership of engineering capacity, planning and delivery commitments. Partner closely with Product to align priorities, manage dependencies and make informed trade-offs between scope, timelines and quality. Create transparency around progress, risks and decisions.
• Champion technical excellence, reliability and operational ownership (on-call readiness & incident follow-up): Guide technical decisions and ensure systems remain maintainable, testable, secure and production-ready. Strengthen engineering practices around testing, monitoring and operational reliability while enabling engineers to own technical solutions.
• Build strong partnerships across teams: Collaborate with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security and other engineering teams to align technical direction, resolve dependencies and deliver shared outcomes. Work with external partners, navigating competing priorities and driving decisions forward.

• Several years of experience in leading software engineering teams, including people development, coaching, performance management and delegation.

• A strong track record of delivering business-critical software in complex, multi-team environments while balancing delivery commitments and technical quality.

• Sound technical judgment in backend or distributed systems, with the ability to assess technical risks, challenge proposals constructively and guide engineering decisions.

• Experience working across organisational boundaries, aligning stakeholders and driving outcomes without relying solely on formal authority.

• A structured, pragmatic and evidence-based approach to planning, prioritisation and delivery, turning ambiguity into clear decisions, ownership and actionable next steps while proactively addressing risks and dependencies.
• The ability to empower engineers through meaningful delegation, coaching and constructive challenge, fostering accountability, independent decision-making and continuous improvement without becoming the team's bottleneck.
  • Nice to have:
    • Experience in payments, fintech, POS or transaction-processing systems, including regulated environments such as PCI DSS.
    • Familiarity with Java, Kotlin, Spring, event-driven microservices, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, observability or SRE practices.
    • Experience collaborating with external technology partners, distributed teams or engineering transformation initiatives.

• Deutschland ticket, subsidized subscription

• Discounts on travel, fashion, technology, and more through our corporate benefits

• REWE discount card for REWE group retailers

• Company provided tax services

• Insurance services

• Flexible working hours that fit your workflow, your time matters

• Responsibility from day one

• Work with modern and agile software such as Google Workspace, Slack, Asana, Jira, Lattice, Miro and Confluence

• Company events including Hackathons and Company Days

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