Senior Engineering Lead at N26 (Berlin, Germany)

We are The Mobile Bank.
Our vision is to build a bank the world loves to use.
Technology and design empower everything we do.

N26 is Europe’s first Mobile Bank with a full European banking license. We redesigned the banking experience to be simple, fast and contemporary. Founded in 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal, N26 has more than 380 employees and more than 850.000 customers in 17 countries. N26 has raised more than $215 million from investors including Allianz, Tencent, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Battery Ventures and Valar Ventures, in addition to members of the Zalando management board, Earlybird Venture Capital and Redalpine Ventures.

Once here you will?

Coach, develop and grow the architectural skills and technical agile practices of the organisation (e.g developer excellence in continuous delivery, TDD, refactoring and clean code)
As part of our technical leadership team, you'll collaborate to hire and onboard top talent, build the engineering culture of N26 and develop technical leadership skills across the bank
Provide guidance and oversight to multiple teams delivering a variety of products, being key in new product kick-offs to gain a deep understanding of what we're shipping
Align product and service architectures to maintain a strong level of consistency of Cross-Functional Requirements (particularly championing operational requirements such as automated deployments, monitoring, logging)
Structure teams to ensure there is capacity to work on larger architectural redesign to meet scalability, performance, security or compliance needs
Spread architectural, technical and domain knowledge across teams, conducting systematic reviews to track progress of engineers learnings

What you'll bring along?

Demonstrated leadership experience, across projects and people, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams
Deep knowledge of architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing and evolving these system constraints
Previous experience working in a cloud-based environment
Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Track record of planning and implementing Continuous Delivery pipelines and a natural aptitude for conveying the concept of Continuous Delivery to a wider organisation
A pragmatic individual, who knows when to be hands-on and enjoys taking the lead in challenging situations

What we offer

High degree of autonomy
The opportunity to lead multiple teams delivering cutting-edge products
Working with international, highly engaged peers
Flat hierarchy and open communication
Getting things done attitude
A stack of the most modern technologies
Exciting challenges as we scale our engineering teams
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