Engineering Director of Banking

Ageras is becoming Shine

At Shine, we are redefining how entrepreneurs - freelancers, self-employed professionals, and SMEs - manage their banking and administrative tasks. Through seamless tools and innovative banking solutions, we help them focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

Our vision is to become the best friend of every small entrepreneur across Europe.

Over the years, Shine has grown through the merging of top European FinTechs like Shine (), Kontist (), Tellow (), and more. Today, we're a team of nearly 500 people, including 150 talented engineers, working together from Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin.

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, organisational 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.

You will:

• 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)

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 organisations

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 or Berlin
with
2 remote days per week
.

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

Deep dive with VP Engineering

Interview with VP Product

Case session – strategy, architecture, migration, team leadership

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

Cultural Interview (personality and logical assessment)

What's In It For You?

• Compensation: Competitive salary depending on experience and location.
• Remote Work Culture: Work from our Berlin or Paris office, with possibility of remote working days.
• 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.