Engineering Manager - New Platform (m/f/x) (onsite / remote in Germany)

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe. The company empowers everyone to shape their financial future. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs and other exchange-traded products and set up savings plans. Scalable Wealth, the digital wealth management service, offers clients professional investment in ETF portfolios and is also adopted as a white-label solution by renowned B2B partners. With the European Investor Exchange (EIX) Scalable Capital offers a stock exchange for retail investors in Europe. Over 27 billion euro is held on the platform by more than one million clients.

Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and employs more than 500 people at its offices in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and London. Together with the founding and management team around Erik Podzuweit and Florian Prucker, they are working on a new generation of financial services.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

Job Description

Shape the future of Scalable’s new fully vertically integrated investment platform. Scalable’s Broker, digital Wealth Management and Credit offerings are seamlessly integrated into a newly developed technology platform.

We are looking for a passionate and motivated Engineering Manager (EM) to lead one of our Engineering teams. As the EM, you will play a crucial role in developing our platform, working alongside product managers and academics implementing change in the financial industry.

• Build our new fully vertically integrated investment platform to serve our customers using cutting edge technology and modern software development practices
• Empower and manage a team of engineers, helping them shape their individual careers and grow the team to become self-organized, agile and autonomous
• Provide technical expertise and share best practices with your team
• Build & integrate new features by working with our Product and Design Teams
• Organize, prioritize and achieve business goals with your team and Product
• Be part of the recruitment process to attract your potential new colleagues or team members

Qualifications

• A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences, ...) or a comparable qualification
• Previous experience as a backend developer (Java, Kotlin), preferably for cloud infrastructures / event-based asynchronous architectures
• Profound understanding of software development process, loosely-coupled distributed architectures and RESTful API Design
• Passion for other people’s development and technical excellence
• Extreme sense of ownership
• Strong analytical thinking, both in the technical and in the product domain
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Leadership experience is a plus
• Background in financial services is a strong plus

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich or Prenzlauer Berg, a vibrant district surrounded by an exciting array of restaurants, cafés and convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 25% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker