Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain (m/f/d)

Berlin, Berlin, GermanyRaisin is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, theFinTech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing. Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market.Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets frommore than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns.For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director of Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers)This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape, an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships.At Raisin, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams.This embraces the six impact areas (in details below):Delivery quality and speedDomain ownershipTeam and cultureProcess and complianceYour ResponsibilitiesDelivery quality and speedThe DE is:accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their business-owners in time, scope, and budgetresponsible for the performance of their teamsresolving impediments for their teamsnurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusabilityensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teamsleading both complex technical and important business projectsleading internal software engineering projects and initiativesDomain ownershipThe DE:drives long-term value creation for their domainis fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribebuilds resilient domain expertise in their teamshas a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teamscollaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholdersvendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing vendors)Tech StrategyThe DE:shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needscollaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategyactively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisionsis always considering the strategic benefits and price of:keeping an existing technical solutionintroducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)Team and CultureThe DE is:fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teamsoffering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as wellencouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibilityattracting, hiring, and retaining top technical talent for Raisin from around the worldproactively mentoring and coaching individual team membersensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teamsorganizing workshops/hackathonsrepresenting the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognitionshaping and driving knowledge transfer best practicesnurturing and protecting our culture of trustinitiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teamsProcess and ComplianceThe DE:drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, regulation and data privacycontributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automationdevelops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organizationdevelops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teamsis responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teamsactively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debtYour ProfileYou hold a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experienceLeadership experience 10y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and teams, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teamsYou have at least 4y experience in FinTechDomain knowledge of Investment products is a strong advantageStrong business mindsetStrong AWS knowledge, Java, SQL, Kafka or other messaging solutionsYou are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situationsYou bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skillsYou motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiencesYou possess solid engineering background and distinct hands‑on mentalityYou are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreementsYou are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraintsYou are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plusJoin our mission, join our team – and grow with us!At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 75 different nationalities.As part of our team, you will benefit from:Employee Development Budget of €2,000 and four full training days per year.Flexible working hours, home office and 30 vacation days.A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%.Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month.Do you miss being in the office? The Deutschland Ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month.Love cycling? With JobRad, lease the bike of your choice and enjoy tax savings, plus Raisin covers your monthly insurance costs.Hungry all the time? Snacks, daily fresh fruit as well as drinks provided at the office.You are moving from another country or city to join us? We may support your relocation.We value diversity and the unique experiences each individual brings. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. #J-18808-Ljbffr