Engineering Manager, Shine
Banking
Online banking management platform
Open for applications
Online banking management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the daily life of business leaders and freelancers to allow them to focus on what really matters: their success.
Role
Who you are
- We don’t expect you to be the strongest engineer in the room. But we expect you to know what good tech looks like and ensure that team continually improves
- Engineering management experience: You have at least a first experience managing engineers, either as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Team Lead. You care about helping people grow, setting clear expectations, and creating the structure teams need to ship consistently
- Engineering background: You need to be credible in technical conversations across the area: how data flows through backend systems, where correctness constraints come from, and how technical decisions shape customer and operational outcomes. You should understand trade-offs, ask sharp questions, and recognise when something is being done well or poorly. Writing production code daily is not the expectation
- Distributed systems experience: You're comfortable with event-driven architectures, asynchronous systems, and the trade-offs that come with them. Banking systems are backend-heavy and correctness-critical
- Comfort in regulated environments: You understand why correctness, auditability, and reliability are non-negotiable in financial systems, and what that means for how you build and operate them
- Clarity in complexity: You are comfortable creating structure in ambiguous environments. You can clarify ownership, reduce confusion, and help teams make progress when scope crosses multiple systems, teams, or stakeholders
- Communication across audiences: You can explain a technical trade-off to an engineer, a PM, a Compliance lead, and a VP with the right level of detail for each audience
- Distributed and multicultural teams: You have experience working in remote or hybrid environments, with teams across different countries, cultures, and ways of working. You know how to make context clear, include different perspectives, and create space for people to contribute
What the job involves
- You will manage a squad of 4-8 engineers within a defined scope in the Banking organisation. You will be responsible for the team's delivery, the professional growth of the engineers reporting to you, and the quality of the technical decisions made within your scope. You will empower the team to make clear decisions, ship reliably, and keep improving how they work, while staying accountable for the results and health of the team
- We expect you to stay close to the work: reviewing architecture proposals, contributing to design documents, pairing with engineers on difficult problems, following operational health, and helping the team maintain reliable systems. You will take part in incident management, lead incidents where appropriate, and make sure follow-up actions are clear and completed
- You will work closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Operations, and other engineering teams
- Manage, coach, and support a squad of 4-8 engineers: set clear expectations, give regular feedback, and support each person's growth
- Create clarity on priorities, delivery, and technical direction, working closely with your Product Manager
- Contribute to the definition of your team's OKRs, making sure they are grounded in customer needs, business priorities, and technical reality
- Work across functions: align with Compliance, Operations, and other engineering teams on shared scope and dependencies
- Review technical proposals, ask sharp questions, and help the team make trade-offs explicit before decisions are made
- Contribute directly when it adds value: design documents, code reviews, incident follow-up, pairing on complex implementations
- Improve how the team works: delivery practices, observability, reliability, on-call processes, and engineering quality
- Be accountable for the reliability and availability of the systems within your team's scope, including how they are monitored, operated, and improved over time
- In partnership with Product and Design, establish a clear technical vision for your area, grounded in sound engineering practices and shaped by the needs of internal teams and customers
- Represent the team's technical choices and trade-offs to peers and leadership
- This is a good fit if you want to stay close to the technical work while helping engineers grow. You will join Shine during a phase where we are adapting our banking systems, team structure, and delivery habits to support more markets, more customers, and more complex financial flows
Application process
- 1️⃣ A 45’ introductory call with Talent Acquisition Specialist to get to know you better and share more about Shine' culture and mission
- 2️⃣ 60’ call with an Area engineering manager to discuss the role and your previous management experience more in depth
- 3️⃣ 60' System Design exercise a distributed-systems problem
- 4️⃣ 60' Case Study with a cross-functional group
- 5️⃣ A soft skills interview to see how we can best support your growth at Shine, followed by a team meeting
Our take
Many people dream of starting a business, but the stresses of banking and accounting prevent them from ever doing so. Hiring accountants is expensive and traditional bookkeeping platforms are failing to meet the demands of today's fintech landscape, showing the demand for an updated take on business banking software.
Shine provides an online banking management platform, offering banking and accounting services for SMEs, freelancers, startups, and agencies. The company's financial experts handle the accounting to free up time, in addition to offering consulting services for business growth and creation.
The rise of open banking has resulted in the fintech industry becoming oversaturated with startups, but Shine shows great potential to stand out due to its comprehensive accountancy services for any business size. Through this approach, the company aims to make online banking services more flexible and accessible whilst providing its customers with insightful and up-to-date financial advice.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2018
$9.2m
SERIES A
Jul 2017
$3.3m
SEED
Total funding: $12.5m
Company benefits
- 👩💻 1 day of freelancing per month: The opportunity to put yourself in the shoes of our customers (with a free premium account!)
- 👪 8 weeks second parent leave + 3 days sick child leave
- 💚 Mutuelle: 100% health coverage for you and your family
- 🌏 Work from our Parisian offices or from your home (in France and in some European countries): Shine takes care of a furniture leasing to settle in well at home or a coworking space near you
- 🍱 Restaurant tickets: €9.05 per day for your lunches
- 🎶 Culture budget of €275 per year to buy books or listen to music
- 🤸 Sports pack: €300 per year to take care of yourself
- 🚴♂️ Bike + transport: Participation in transport costs, on folding seat or cycle path (Shine reimburses the kilometers made by bike!)
- ☀️ 8 to 10 days of RTT per year for all
- 🏝 1% holiday bonus paid in June
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Leadership
Nicolas Reboud
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Senior Consultant for Auriverde. Co-founder of Mayoz from 2010 to 2013, and of Printic from 2013 to 2017.
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