Listing Description
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 Manager, you will manage 5-10 skilled and creative Platform Engineers, currently divided into two teams. The mission of SRE & Security is to ensure that our products and underlying workloads meet the production and operational excellence that our customers expect. You will be a hands-on leader who grows high-performing teams & individuals, ensures goal attainment, and aligns technical excellence with business goals.
You’ll work closely with your teams to make Platform-as-a-product decisions, prioritize work, ship features, and promote an engineering culture of knowledge sharing and mentorship. You’ll drive company-wide initiatives like our ongoing Production Excellence initiative, while also jumping in to help solve problems or handle escalations.
We are looking forward to getting to know you - so, even if you feel that you don’t quite meet all the requirements, but the position still excites you and you think you would love to work with us, please reach out! We would still love to hear from you. We explicitly encourage applicants within groups that are underrepresented in tech spaces as of today. We value all kinds of backgrounds and walks of life.
Your tasks:
- Team Leadership and Development: Manage 1-2 teams of engineers, providing leadership, mentorship, salary & performance reviews, and support their success and professional growth.
- Technical Vision and Strategy: Partner closely with engineering leadership to shape the engineering culture and align engineering strategies with broader business goals (including VPs, Heads of, Architecture, Security Officer).
- Company-wide tech excellence: Drive and promote cross-company tech initiatives, overseeing their entire lifecycle together with your teams. In SRE and Security a lot of focus topics include operational excellence, IT processes (e.g. incident management), offensive and defensive security.
Your experience:
- Proven track record of hiring & managing teams that have shipped and operated highly available, distributed systems.
- Multiple years of hands-on experience in platform / infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with product discovery methodologies for (internal) customers.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-changing, high-paced environment.
- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication in English, German is an advantage.
- Bonus: Successfully worked with DORA4, DevEx, Team Topologies.
- Bonus: Familiarity with ISO27001, PCI-DSS, Kritis.
Our benefits:
- Deutschland ticket, subsidized subscription
- 1.000 euro annual learning and development budget + internal training platforms
- Discounts on travel, fashion, technology, and more through our corporate benefits
- REWE discount card for discounts for REWE group retailers
- JobRad, affordable bicycle leasing!
- Company pension plan
- Insurance Services
Perks of working with us:
- We work in a hybrid environment
- 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
- Ask us more about these!
Listing Details
- Citizenship: Not Provided
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: Not Provided
- Telework: Not Provided