Golang Job: Engineer Manager

At FinCompare we are on a mission to simplify SME finance by using technology to offer businesses a convenient one-stop destination for all their financing needs. We develop and operate a successful SaaS Market-Network for German small and medium enterprises, financial advisors and financing institutions which provides access to and the opportunity to compare modern and suitable financing products. We are looking for great team members to join us on our journey to become Europe's biggest, most advanced and reliable SME financing platform.

\_\_Software Engineering is at the heart of FinCompare’s Business. We are looking to extend our remote and onsite team with driven individuals who find pleasure in delivering great solutions that lead our customers to success.
We want you to help us make impactful choices in an agile environment so that we stay ahead of the curve with innovative and effective products.
Our mission: Develop outstanding software, faster.

As Engineering Manager at FinCompare you are accountable for a smooth and productive environment that leads to the continuous improvement of our squads and systems. In tight collaboration with our CTO you will help shape the execution of our strategy with autonomy and support from the whole department.\_\_

Your Key Responsibilities

• You foster a strong and engaging engineering culture as role-model within a remote team
• You improve the hiring, training and empowerment of other leaders and technical specialists in their respective functions
• You shape technology, processes and standards on tactical and strategic time-frames in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Nurture an effective DevOps Culture within the development squads together with SREs
• You improve the speed and quality of our software development and delivery
• You ensure effective information flow from engineering to roadmap and strategic decision-making, both-ways
• You discover and address technical and architectural impact hands-on

Your Profile

• You have worked as a software engineer polyglot and you have 2+ years of leadership experience
• You have a proven track record of getting things done in a structured way
• You have extensive experience with service-oriented architectures and legacy software
• You enjoy planning, teaching and bringing people together
• You have an “eye for talent”
• As a servant leader who enjoys leading from the front, you say “it is done” more often than “we should”
• You seek to handle stressful situations and unknown challenges with both, people and tech

Our Setup

• 2 cross-functional squads, planning 3 and 4
• 1 Python Monolith, 5 golang services
• React, Typescript
• Rest, GraphQL, Websockets
• moderate diversity of AWS-services (EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Elasticsearch, Elasticache, SNS/SQS, Secret Manager)
• ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry.io, Jaeger
• All software dockerized, different cluster environments including a flexible of cloud-dev environments
• Mostly github-based CI
• Unit-Tests & integration-/API-Tests (Gherkin-based)
• Github, Slack, Atlassian Jira
• “Maker Time” - engineers don’t have too many meetings

Your Benefits

• A clear and stable company vision, mission & strategy with the same clearity in product and engineering
• Flexible working hours and remote working
• Company growth-outlook with an established strategy and long-term stability
• An attractive remuneration package
• Active support in your personal development via individual training and frequent in-depth feedback via a comprehensive organised scheme
• Experienced managers and team-members that encourage ownership and high standards
• Flat hierarchies, open communication and company transparency
• Gain experience in a largely untapped sector with strong growth expectations that is B2B online finance
• A nice office with a great atmosphere in the heart of Berlin
• A diverse and multinational team that melts the best this world has to offer
• Any hardware, software, tools you need