Engineering Manager Infrastructure – Remote-First

🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 16 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.


🔎 What's in it for you

At EPI, we are on a mission to build and deliver a meaningful European payment solution
that strengthens the European payment ecosystem. Acting as both bridge and builder, we aim to create a secure, innovative, and unified payment experience for consumers across Europe.
This is your chance to join a transparent, collaborative, and open-minded organization
that adapts to change and strives for excellence.
If you’re passionate about payments, thrive in technical problem-solving, and want to
make a positive impact daily, then this role is for you.

At EPI, we embrace a remote-first culture, enabling our teams to work remotely from the country they are based in, with in-person meetings at least once a quarter to foster collaboration and connection.


🐝 About the team

You will lead a team of 6 Infrastructure Engineers responsible for building, scaling, and operating the core platform infrastructure powering EPI’s payment ecosystem.

You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and SRE teams to ensure our infrastructure remains scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and aligned with business growth objectives.


💥 Your impact

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6 infrastructure engineers

• Drive infrastructure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence initiatives

• Maintain a strong hands-on technical involvement in architecture, debugging, automation, and incident management

• Own and manage the team’s on-call rotations and incident response processes

• Define and monitor operational KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs for infrastructure reliability and performance

• Build and optimize financial governance around infrastructure and cloud costs

• Drive initiatives toward zero-downtime deployments and highly available distributed systems

• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to support platform scalability and performance requirements

• Lead post-mortems and root cause analyses to continuously improve platform reliability

• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement

• Contribute to long-term infrastructure and platform strategy
  
  
  💻 Technology stack

• Backend: Kotlin or Java with Ktor

• Database: MongoDB

• APIs: OpenAPI

• Infrastructure & Containers: Docker and Kubernetes

• Cloud: AWS

• Architecture: Event Sourcing

• Testing: Kotest
  
  
  🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in Software,Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, including management experience

• Leadership: Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in high-scale environments

• Scalability: Strong experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems

• Reliability Engineering: Hands-on experience with high availability, disaster recovery, incident management, and zero-downtime strategies

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures

• Backend Knowledge: Solid engineering background in Kotlin or Java ecosystems

• Monitoring & Observability: Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability best practices

• Financial Governance: Experience defining and optimizing infrastructure cost KPIs and cloud spend governance

• Operational Excellence: Experience managing on-call rotations, incident response, and operational processes

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