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.
The Advisor Audit Team at Shine
The Advisor Audit Team is a newly formed team with a mission to build the intelligence that aims to revolutionise accounting for small business. The team is responsible for developing sophisticated insights that drive accuracy and efficiency for advisors auditing client documents and entries across more than nine European countries, helping us fuel a worldwide shift in how business is done. New colleagues will step into an exhilarating environment, and be at the forefront of a major transformation, embracing a brand new mission, pioneering a state‑of‑the‑art technology stack, and building a high‑impact culture alongside new, driven teammates.
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 will 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 will 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.
Whether engaging with the team, collaborating across the organisation, or in broader professional interactions, you'll focus on building mutual understanding, aligning individuals around a shared purpose, establishing trust, and enabling action with empathy.
In joining a newly formed team, you'll be navigating evolving priorities and shifting landscapes with a forward‑looking perspective, converting uncertainty into focused action and 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.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Team Leadership: Build a psychologically safe environment where every engineer feels safe to speak up, take calculated risks, and be truly heard; enable the team to tackle novel challenges together.
- Engineering Excellence: Own technical implementation, articulate and execute a strong architectural vision, guide the team through complex challenges and critical decision points. Own design, testing and cloud infrastructure decisions, champion DevOps and operational excellence across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to help teams run and maintain high‑scale production systems that serve millions of customers. Ensure systems remain secure, optimised and unbreakable.
- Mission Focus: Define and embody the team's purpose, ensuring alignment with the broader organisational strategy by articulating a clear, meaningful mission that gives the team work purpose and fosters proactive ownership toward mission success.
- Efficient Delivery: Demonstrate a proactive approach to planning, execution, monitoring and control to ensure deliverables meet defined scope and quality standards. Optimise delivery flow by reducing overheads, fostering an environment where engineers can focus on high‑value work and ship value often, underpinned by an Agile mindset and strong agile principles.
- Collaboration & Communication: Work hand‑in‑hand with a Product Manager and Designer, collaborate with colleagues beyond the immediate team, champion cross‑functional partnership with stakeholders across all global locations. Advocate for users and customers, embed their needs into everything, and establish crystal‑clear expectations and transparent operational rhythm for the team.
If hired as a Senior Engineering Manager, you would also lead one team while contributing to cross‑domain support and organisational development, such as contributing to the company‑wide AI adoption program.
Your First 6–12 Months
0-3 Months
- Model and champion a psychologically safe environment where curiosity, candid feedback and ownership are the norm.
- Take full, unambiguous ownership of the team's technical commitments.
- Define and implement the team's preferred delivery methodology (e.g., Kanban, Scrum) and measure its initial effectiveness, securing team buy‑in.
- In partnership with Product and Design, clearly define the team's mission, 12‑month vision and a pragmatic technical roadmap that addresses early ambiguity.
- Develop, implement and track OKRs and KPIs that measure business impact, such as customer adoption, reliability and development velocity trends.
- Actively collaborate within the broader engineering organisation.
3-6 Months
- Deliver foundational customer value while elevating engineering standards.
- Successfully deliver the initial core foundational features to customers.
- Establish baseline metrics for code quality, test coverage and reliability.
- Ensure AI transition readiness.
6-12 Months
- Maintain a high‑performing, resilient team that consistently delivers, mentors and actively supports growth.
Senior EM focus only
- Organisational Impact.
- Successfully transition the team to AI‑native engineering processes.
- Demonstrate measurable productivity gains or technical efficiencies from 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 leads with hands‑on involvement when needed, 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.
- Well‑formed opinions on software architecture, design patterns, testing methodologies and cloud infrastructure (specifically AWS).
- Evidenced track‑record of delivery management and people leadership.
- Strong agile mindset and deep understanding of agile principles; pragmatic, not dogmatic.
- Customer focused with genuine interest in understanding and solving customer problems.
- Previous experience in an engineering management position.
- Eagerness to take a hands‑on approach when necessary.
- Positive attitude toward 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 Product Management and Design.
- Familiarity with User‑Centred Design and User Experience (UX/UCD) principles.
- Experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behaviour‑Driven Development (BDD) testing practices is beneficial.
- Background or domain knowledge in accounting or FinTech is helpful.
Our recruitment process
- Screening call with Talent Acquisition: Motivations, leadership style, adaptability.
- First Interview: Assessment covering leadership, people management, and delivery management.
- Second Stage Interview: Technical interview to confirm technical capability, including a live architecture challenge.
- Case session: Strategy, architecture, migration and team leadership with simulated exercises.
- 'Meet the Team': Meeting with the Product Manager and Designer, aligning on ways of working, values and team cohesion.
