Manager, Engineering (m/f/d)

We simplify wealth creation. Founded in 2014 in Vienna, Austria by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer, we’re here to help people trust themselves enough to build their financial freedom — for now and the future. Our user-friendly, trade-everything platform empowers both first-time investors and seasoned experts to invest in the cryptocurrencies, crypto indices, stocks*, precious metals and commodities* they want — with any sized budget, 24/7. Our global team works across different cultures and time zones, bringing our products to more than 6 million customers, making us one of Europe’s safest and most secure platforms that powers modern investing.

Headquartered in Austria but operating across Europe, our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. It’s these diverse perspectives and innovative minds operating as ONE TEAM that keep Bitpanda at the cutting edge of our industry. So if you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team. Let’s go!

Your mission

The Engineering Manager for the BOSS team leads the development and evolution of one of Bitpanda’s core internal platforms that is used across the business. This role combines technical leadership with people management; you will enable the team to deliver a reliable, scalable, and secure application that powers critical business workflows. The engineering manager also partners closely with cross-functional stakeholders to understand internal needs, translate them into a clear product and technical roadmap, and drive high-quality execution. They foster a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, modern best practices, and continuous improvement, while ensuring that BOSS remains a stable, intuitive, and efficient tool that enables teams across the company to operate effectively and at scale.

• Define technical roadmaps, and work with a product manager to groom the backlog factoring in technical debt and prioritisation of impactful services.
• Lead, grow, and inspire your team to perform at the highest level, and successfully deliver their best in a fast-paced environment.
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure agile practices are effectively implemented and continuously improved.
• Work closely with other managers, stakeholders, and teams across the organisation to ensure that the microservices architecture aligns with the broader company objectives.
• Perform regular 1:1 with your team members to develop career plans and goals. Help your team to maintain resilience in periods of change and ambiguity.

• You have the ability to lead teams effectively, provide guidance in ambiguous situations, influence technical discussions and are able to contribute to the development and future growth of software engineers.
• You have experience in a technical leadership role with demonstrated deep knowledge of the development of digital products, good understanding of software architecture all the way from experimentation to continuous improvement in an agile environment.
• Capability to perform regular performance reviews and derive new development goals or improvement strategies. Hands-on personality, self-driven, somebody who likes to be involved rather than sitting on the sidelines.
• You have touched upon financial services before and are eager to grow in this domain.
• Familiarity with Java/PHP, distributed/event driven systems, message brokers such as Kafka and microservices architecture are a huge bonus.