Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain (m/f/d) - #2668094

Raisin is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the FinTech 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 from more 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 speed
• Domain ownership
• Team and culture
• Data strategy
• Process and compliance
  
  

Your Responsibilities

Delivery quality and speed

The DE Is:

• accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their Business-owners in time, scope, and budget
• responsible for the performance of their teams
• resolving impediments for their teams
• nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability
• ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• leading both complex technical and important business projects
• leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives
  
  

Domain ownership

The DE:

• drives long-term value creation for their domain
• is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe
• builds resilient domain expertise in their teams
• has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams
• collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders
• ensures Data Vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing data-related vendors)
  
  

Tech Strategy

The DDE:

• shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs
• collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy
• actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions
• is always considering the strategic benefits and price of
• keeping an existing technical solution
• introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)
  
  

Team and Culture

The DE Is:

• fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams
• offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well
• encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility
• attracting, hiring, and retaining diverse top technical talent for Raisin from around the world
• proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members
• ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• organizing workshops/hackathons
• representing the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition
• shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices
• nurturing and protecting our culture of trust
• initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)
• recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams
  
  

Process and Compliance

The DE:

• drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, Regulation and data privacy
• contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation
• develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization
• develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams
• is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams
• actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt
  
  

Your Profile

• You hold a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experience
• Leadership experience 10y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and teams, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams
• You have at least 4y experience in FinTech Domain knowledge of Investment products is a strong advantage.
• Strong business mindset.
• Strong AWS knowledge, Java, SQL, Kafka/or other messaging solutions
• You are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations
• You bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills
• You motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• You possess solid data engineering/analytics background and distinct hands-on mentality
• You are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements
• You are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraints
• You are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus
  
  

Join 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.
  
  

Raisin Applicant Privacy Policy

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.

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