Engineering Lead – Investment and Pension Products

About the role

Lead a cross-functional engineering team focused on internationalizing and evolving Raisin's investment products within the Investment & Pension Products tribe. You'll own backend-heavy services end-to-end in a highly regulated fintech environment where correctness, auditability, and resilience are critical.

What you'll do

• Lead full end-to-end delivery lifecycle from requirements analysis to production operations
• Manage a backend and fullstack engineering team with emphasis on Java-based services and event-driven systems
• Ensure systems meet high standards of reliability, scalability, security, auditability, and performance
• Participate in architectural discussions and provide technical guidance for backend and event-driven system design
• Establish operational culture including on-call participation, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Hire, onboard, and grow high-performing cross-functional teams across Backend, Web, and Mobile
• Provide continuous feedback and address underperformance constructively
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance and other stakeholders for aligned execution
• Drive OKRs with Product Manager ensuring predictable, sustainable delivery

What you'll need

• 3+ years of leadership and people management experience in backend-heavy environments
• 8+ years hands-on backend engineering experience with strong Java (Spring Boot) expertise
• Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Understanding of distributed systems challenges like idempotency, consistency, and failure handling
• Cloud-native architecture experience (preferably AWS), containerization, and infrastructure as code
• Production systems operation experience with on-call rotations and incident management
• Professional experience in fintech, banking, investment platforms, or highly regulated industries
• Experience with systems requiring data integrity, auditability, and transactional correctness
• Fluent English communication skills

Nice to have

• German language skills
• Experience scaling engineering teams through hiring and mentoring
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in fintech

What they offer

• €2,000 employee development budget and four full training days per year
• Flexible working hours, home office options, and 30 vacation days
• Company pension scheme with 20% employer contribution
• Urban Sports Club membership subsidy of €20+ per month
• Deutschland Ticket subsidy of €25 per month
• JobRad bike leasing program with insurance coverage