Engineering Manager - Accounts Platform
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead a nine-person engineering team through the separation of the financial ledger from the wider Accounts platform. You will define team boundaries, guide the transition, and then lead the Ledger Team. You will set technical direction for performance, availability, consistency, and long-term architecture. You will own reliability practices, including SLOs, observability, and on-call operations. You will partner with product, compliance, and operations stakeholders to deliver accurate, supportable, compliant systems across markets. You will remain hands-on in technical discussions, architecture decisions, and production issues. You will also coach engineers at different career stages and align on cross-cutting infrastructure decisions.
Requirements
- Engineering management experience leading teams through delivery
- Backend engineering foundation
- Experience leading distributed remote-first teams across time zones
- Experience leading technical teams and partnering with product and senior leadership
- Fintech or banking domain experience
- Knowledge of high-volume transaction processing
- Knowledge of distributed systems, consistency models, fault tolerance, reliability patterns, SLOs, SLAs, and observability
- Backend engineering experience in a strongly typed language
- Microservices experience in a cloud-native environment
- Relational database engineering experience at scale
- Event-driven and asynchronous systems experience
- Distributed systems migration experience
- Exposure to agentic or AI-integrated systems and engineering practices
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Lead the Accounts team through the ledger split
- Define technical boundaries between ledger and account-related systems
- Set technical direction for the Ledger Team
- Own system stability and operational reliability
- Partner with product, compliance, and operations stakeholders
- Develop engineers at every level
- Align on cross-cutting infrastructure decisions with other engineering managers
Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- 500 EUR annual learning and development budget
- Additional health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, light food, and drinks
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options
