🚀 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In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid.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 14 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

In this role, you'll shape your team's vision and objectives, establish clear goals, and drive continuous process improvements. Work closely with senior management to ensure technical roadmaps align with business objectives, boosting productivity and quality. You will connect infrastructure/security with other engineering teams, fostering collaboration and building a scalable, secure and cost-efficient infrastructure that is easy to use, and fulfills regulatory requirements.

🐝 About the team

You’ll be part of a fully remote Pan-European Product and Engineering team that operates in an Agile environment. You will lead two teams: the infrastructure team with experts in backend engineering and DevOps/SRE, and the Security team with cloud security and application security engineers. They are located across Europe, in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, and other countries.

💥 Your impact

• Foster a positive, inclusive work environment, actively support career development paths for team members, and assist in the recruiting of high-quality talent
• Inspire, mentor and coach your report’s growth and success, helping them to find
  and develop their strengths and set clear goals and expectations for your team
• Own your product’s problem space and develop your team’s vision, mission, objectives, and KPIs. 
• Establish metrics and processes for continuous improvement
• In partnership with senior management, sculpt the technical roadmap, ensuring it aligns with the overall business goals
• Continually assess and evolve engineering methodologies and processes to increase productivity, quality, and team satisfaction
• Serve as a bridge between our teams working on infrastructure and security, and all other engineering teams, improving collaboration and ensuring that we are building an infrastructure that meets the needs of our other teams
• Provide clear, concise, and useful reports on engineering team achievements, project progress, and challenges to stakeholders and upper management

💻 Technology stack

• Kotlin, Ktor, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, k8s, Terraform, Datadog, Github actions
• Additionally: Event Sourcing, technical audits, monitoring, alerting, security
  

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

• +10 years of professional experience in Software/DevOps Engineering
• 5+ years in a leadership role within an engineering-focused department, with a proven track record of managing successful teams and delivering highly scalable infrastructure
• Desire to spend approximately 50% of your time close to the code, making informed decisions while identifying technical risks – either in Infrastructure/DevOps or as a Security Engineer
• Ability to contribute to both technical and business strategy, understanding how engineering decisions impact overall business objectives
• Strong experience in DevOps/SRE, with a track record of designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure platforms for highly available and complex products
• Fluent in English (CEFR C1 or C2); French, German or Dutch or any additional European languages is a plus
• Experience in the payment or financial services industry is a plus
  

🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are:

1. A first call with one of our recruiters
2. A technical interview with one of our Cloud Security Engineer
3. A second technical interview with one of our DevOps Engineer
4. A final interview with our Head of Engineering
5. Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse
   

⛔ Turn back if …

• You don’t have at least +5 years of experience in leading engineering teams
• You don’t have a track record of highly scalable infrastructure
• You do not like to work hands on (about 50% of your time)

Otherwise apply!

🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.