Engineering Manager - Application Framework Team (m/f/x)

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment and banking platform with a full banking licence, empowering people across Europe to shape their own finances. Scalable Broker makes it easy and affordable for clients to invest professionally in stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives, as well as 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 banks and other B2B partners. The company’s offerings are rounded off by attractive interest rates, loans, and private equity. With the European Investor Exchange, Scalable Capital offers an exchange specifically for retail investors. Over one million clients have already entrusted more than €30 billion to the platform.

Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital now employs over 700 people across Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and London. Together with the founding and management team, including 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

Lead the strategic direction and growth of our Application Framework team within the Core Tribe whose mission is to empower Engineers to build disruptive financial products by doing foundational work providing re-usable components, implementing critical improvement and supporting other teams by identifying technological opportunities, producing knowledge and sharing best practices. The Application Framework Team focuses on providing and maintaining ready to use, secure, up to date and quality assured application templates/reference implementations, best practices as well as integrations based on the most commonly used frameworks and architecture components in Scalable to make sure our application teams can deliver and maintain their services with least effort.

Scalable Capital was built in the cloud from day one. Our services currently run on various AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Lambda and are distributed across multiple accounts. We embrace a DevOps culture where the development teams manage their CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure for their services themself. Our Core Tribe teams focus on providing everything necessary to ensure security, reliability, development speed  and scalability of our services and storages while being cost efficient.

• Build up, empower and manage a team of Full Stack Software Engineers, helping them shape their individual careers and grow a performant, agile, self-organizing team
• Provide technical expertise and share best practices with your team
• Define OKRs with your team which they can deliver on
• Organise, prioritise and achieve business goals with your team and Product
• Be part of the recruitment process to attract your potential new colleagues or team members
• Collaborate with feature teams to identify the bottlenecks in performance, efficiency and scalability
• Lead design and implementation of best practices around performance, efficiency and scalability of our infrastructure
• Lead and drive decision processes for improvements in the field of service and storage improvements by using serverless technologies and optimise our services and respective CICD to optimise scalability, cost and performance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Kotlin/Java (Spring Boot), Python (Fast API), Node.js (Next.js)
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform)
• Experience in a technical leadership and people management role
• Solid understanding of scalable system design principles, distributed systems, and cloud technologies
• General understanding of software systems and how they interact with each other (e.g microservice architectures, event driven architectures)
• A passion for automating, improving processes and working together with other developer teams
• Great skills in communication and visualisation of complex systems
• A degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences) or work experience in a role that typically requires a university degree
• Full professional proficiency in English and the ability to communicate concisely in an international English-speaking environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
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