Engineering Director of Banking

**Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves.**
Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin - it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.


We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy - backed by local, award-winning support.


Your Hiring Experience Matters


Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.


If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.


**The Banking team at Shine**
The Banking domain is responsible for accounts, payments, cards, ledger, compliance flows, and the architecture that powers all financial operations. The mission: build a single, unified banking experience across four markets, on a new in-house core banking engine.


We now seek an Engineering Director who combines technical depth, organizational leadership, and regulated-environment judgment — someone able to drive migration, scale teams, and deliver safely in a high-complexity environment.


Your role as Engineering Director of Banking reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be accountable for the technical integrity, regulatory readiness, and long-term scalability of Shine’s banking systems.


Your responsibilities will include



- Lead and mentor 7+ Engineering Managers and 40+ engineers across multiple locations
- Own the engineering vision for our core banking domain: ledger, posting engine, payments orchestration, cards, KYC/AML, reconciliation, and market-specific adapters
- Guide architectural decisions and challenge trade-offs with senior engineers and Staff Engineers
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Risk, and Operations to ensure alignment across markets
- Strengthen engineering excellence: design principles, reliability, observability, incident response, and secure-by-design practices
- Build a cohesive, inclusive culture across previously independent banking stacks
- Ensure Shine is audit-ready at all times (PSD2, SCA, AML/KYC, SEPA, local regulators)

**In Your First 12 Months, You Will Focus On**

- Building trust with the Banking teams and engineering leadership
- Delivering a high-confidence migration plan from legacy BaaS systems to the new core banking engine
- Establishing clear architectural guidelines, domain boundaries, and integration patterns
- Aligning with Compliance and Risk to ensure regulatory correctness across all markets
- Launching the new banking engine in our core markets
- Improving operational excellence (SLOs, incident management, on-call, reliability culture)
- Driving transparency, alignment, and crisp execution across EMs and cross-functional partners
- Leading the engineering dimension of the merger between Banking and Accounting/Invoices

**About You**
You are a servant leader with strong engineering judgement, able to build clarity, challenge assumptions, and guide teams through ambiguity in a regulated environment.


**Must-have Experience**

- Significant leadership experience in regulated fintech, banking, or financial infrastructure
- Direct ownership of core financial systems such as ledger, posting engines, payments orchestration, KYC/AML, reconciliation, or audit frameworks
- Architectural leadership in cloud-native, event-driven, highly reliable systems
- Experience leading platform migrations, system consolidation, or large-scale technical transformation
- Strong ability to mentor, challenge, and grow Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and senior ICs
- Experience leading multi-country product and engineering delivery
- Fluent English; strong French is a major advantage
- Demonstrated ability to build inclusive, high-performing, distributed engineering organizations

**Nice to have**

- Experience with multi-market financial products
- Prior exposure to European regulatory frameworks (PSD2, SCA, AML/KYC, SEPA, reporting)
- Experience working with accounting, invoicing, or adjacent financial products

📍Job located in Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Berlin with 2 remote days per week.


**Our recruitment process**
1️⃣ Screening call with Talent Acquisition – motivations, leadership style, adaptability


2️⃣ Deep dive with VP Engineering


3️⃣ Interview with VP Product


4️⃣ Case session – strategy, architecture, migration, team leadership


5️⃣ Team Interview with Head of Design, Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers


6️⃣ Cultural Interview (personality and logical assessment)


What’s In It For You?



- Compensation: Competitive salary depending on experience and location.
- Scale-Up Impact: Join a high-growth environment with ~500 passionate people across Europe and multiple acquisitions; your work has direct, measurable impact
- Events and Travels : Regular team events, international trips, and cross-European networking opportunities ✨ ✨

**Equal Opportunity Employer**
We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.