Engineering Manager

Your opportunity

Join Mollie as we strive to become the most loved payment service provider in Europe. We are expanding our Engineering Hub to Milan, a vibrant city that will play a key role in our mission. In Milan, you'll work with agile engineering teams to innovate and build next-generation payment products. Our focus is on developing highly scalable solutions that handle a high volume of payments per second. We value code quality and system scalability and seek forward-thinking experts to help us achieve this.

As the Engineering Manager for the Lead Creation team, you’ll be essential to our GTM Optimisation domain. This role is pivotal in driving our goal to 10x lead generation and double our new business year on year. You will develop proprietary software tools to identify relevant companies and data points online, ensuring Mollie has the most comprehensive database of ideal customer profile leads. These leads will be enriched with relevant data points and prioritized using machine learning scoring.

We are looking for a java hands-on engineering manager to shape the technical roadmap and delivery of our next-generation lead generation platform. You will collaborate with various stakeholders across business, product, marketing, and data to evolve the roadmap and technical strategy. This is a critical and visible role that has a direct impact on the company's revenue. You will work in a newly formed team comprising existing Mollies and new hires skilled in application engineering, analytics engineering, and data science.

What you'll be doing

• Build and Guide a Technical Team: Develop and lead a world-class technical team. As a hands-on manager, you will work with large-scale distributed systems and guide teams through technical challenges, such as structuring data in searchable databases.

• Balance Hands-On Work and Big Picture Thinking: Enjoy being hands-on (Java) while also capable of strategic oversight. Nurture and grow high-performing teams to achieve results at scale and pace.

• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with business, product, marketing, and data stakeholders to understand user and stakeholder needs, and to drive the technical roadmap and strategy.

• Deliver Results: Set technical roadmaps and goals, delegate tasks intelligently, mentor engineers, provide transparent feedback, and help team members grow in their careers.

• Drive Engineering Excellence: Ensure significant hands-on engineering work, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full stack products. Lead by example in guiding engineering excellence.

What you have:

• Great Management Skills: Ability to set roadmaps and goals for the team and individual members, mentor engineers, and deliver frequent and transparent feedback.

• Management Experience: Preferably 2+ years of managing multidisciplinary teams, with a proven ability to recruit, retain, and grow top engineering talent.

• Engineering Excellence: Significant hands-on experience in various contexts, building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems and full-stack products.

• Bias Towards Action: Balance speed and quality, make quick decisions and learn from mistakes.

• Excellent Teaching Skills: Mentor, teach, and review engineers to help them make sound architectural decisions, improve their skills, and step out of their comfort zones.

• Passion and Energy: Demonstrate ownership and enthusiasm in all endeavours, seeing new tasks as opportunities to contribute and grow.

• Team Player Mindset: Foster a culture of collaboration and support, relying on candid feedback for continuous improvement and inspiring others to learn and grow.

  
  

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to build a future where everyone and everything can move freely. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, come work with us and help move the world forward together.

Ready to make an impact? Join us at Mollie and help shape the future of payment services in Europe.

Please apply with your CV in English

Kindly note that relocation support is not offered for candidates outside of Europe for this role.