Engineering Lead, Cino
€80-95k
Plus equity 0.2-0.4%
Building shared payments, any bank, anywhere
Be an early applicant
Building shared payments, any bank, anywhere
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
€80-95k
Plus equity 0.2-0.4%
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make group payments hassle-free.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong focus on payment systems (e.g., issuing, acquiring, payment flows)
- Proven ability to recruit, mentor, and grow high-performing teams
- Prior experience leading engineering teams in startup or scale-up environments
- A proactive and strategic approach to solving technical challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a collaborative, team-oriented mindset
What the job involves
- Build and improve backend systems for seamless payment flows, processing, and integrations
- Lead the creation of new features and improvements for the Cino app to enhance user experience
- Work closely with a diverse, cross-functional team to design scalable, robust solutions
- Ensure systems meet the highest standards of security and operational excellence as we scale
- Recruit, mentor, and lead the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration
- Set the technical vision and roadmap, laying the foundation for your growth into the Head of Engineering role
Application process
- Interview with founder
- Live Coding Interview
- System Design Interview
- Problem Solving Interview
Our take
Cino addresses the common challenge of shared expenses by transforming payments into a social experience. By linking everyone's bank accounts to a single virtual card, Cino eliminates the hassle of IOUs and enables seamless group payments. It's building seamless way for people to pay together for their daily, weekly, and monthly shared costs.
This approach particularly resonates with couples, roommates, friends and Gen Zers, who value Cino's user-friendly interface and intuitive design. Recognising the changing landscape of financial interactions, Cino strives to meet modern preferences for collaborative financial management.
Backed by substantial funding and winners of the Mastercard Lighthouse and Semifinalist of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, Cino is positioned to extend its impact within the fintech sector. As the company continues to innovate, it aims to redefine the social dynamics of finance by fostering transparency and solidarity among peers. It's also planning to expand its product range to help with different customers and businesses - especially in the fintech sector - and use cases to enable paying together everywhere.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
50% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$1.3m
SEED
Nov 2022
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $2.3m
Company values
- Ambitious - Regardless where we are now, we are hungry to go bigger
- Competitive - We like to get to number 1, humbly and via merit
- Ownerhsip & Independence - We thrive on taking ownership, working independently, and contributing collaboratively.
- Give give give take - We give more than we take, supporting one another
- Problem Solver - No problem is too big or unfamiliar. We figure it out, or we ask for help.
- Lifelong Learners - Every experience—success or failure—is a lesson. We continuously seek insights from others, ourselves, and the world around us.
- User-Centric Evolution - Progress is key. Whether building for one or millions, we’re driven by our users and strive to evolve daily.
- Doers and Experimenters - We take initiative, embrace experimentation, and learn by doing. Action drives progress.
- No Egos - There’s no room for egos in our team—only respect and humility.
- Respectful Debate - Different views strengthen us. We discuss openly, without judgment.
Company HQ
Vanalinn, Tallinn, Harju County
Leadership
Elena Churilova
(CEO)Previously a Product Lead at Bumble. They also held other Senior Product roles at TripAction, Booking.com, and Justa Japan.
Lina Saleh
(COO)Previously founded Vcquire and LinaSaleh Designs as well as co-founding ShamsArd Design Studio.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cino
- At Cino diversity isn’t just a value—it’s in our DNA. With a team that’s 50% female, over half of our leadership roles held by women, and members representing nationalities from Spain, Italy, the U.S., Palestine, Japan, and Brazil, we’re a true global collective. Our diversity drives creativity, innovation, and collaboration, making us stronger as we build for a world that’s as dynamic and diverse as the people we serve.
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