[Hiring] Engineering Manager — Scala / Payments | Remote Europe | 50% Hands-on
Hi everyone! We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join a fintech company building institutional payment infrastructure on top of the Canton Network.
It is a fully remote team of around 25 people. The engineering team currently has 10 senior engineers and is expected to grow to approximately 15. This will be the company’s first dedicated Engineering Manager role.
What you’ll do
- Manage and develop a team of 10–15 engineers
- Run 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, promotions, and career development
- Improve delivery and introduce scalable engineering processes
- Remain hands-on with Scala for approximately 50% of your time
- Contribute to architecture, system design, and technical decisions
- Build reliable, high-load payment infrastructure
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of Engineering Management experience
- Experience managing 7–15 direct reports
- Strong commercial Scala background
- Current hands-on coding and architecture experience
- Distributed systems, microservices, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes
- Practical experience with core payments: authorisation, acquiring, settlement, reconciliation, ledger, idempotency, or payment orchestration
- Strong coaching-oriented leadership style without micromanagement
What we offer
- A high-impact role as the company’s first Engineering Manager
- Direct collaboration with the CTO and influence over team structure, delivery processes, and engineering culture
- A 50/50 balance between people management and hands-on Scala engineering
- Ownership of complex architecture and institutional payment infrastructure
- A senior engineering team with challenging technical problems
- A fully remote and flexible working environment without micromanagement
- Competitive compensation discussed individually
- Flexible contract options depending on your location
- Equipment and the necessary budget to set up your workspace
Location: Remote, Europe
Working hours: At least four hours of overlap within GMT0 to GMT+5
Contract: B2B preferred; other arrangements may be discussed
Compensation: Flexible and discussed individually. USDT is the preferred payment format, but alternatives may be considered depending on location.
If this sounds relevant, please send me a DM with your LinkedIn profile or CV, along with a short description of your experience in Scala, Engineering Management, and payments.