Engineering Manager
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 and directly manage a cross-functional product engineering team. You will partner with a Product Manager, own delivery quality, stability, timelines, dependencies, technical excellence, and architecture. You will improve team performance using DORA metrics, support engineers’ growth and wellbeing, and divide your time between design, coding, and coaching.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience building server-side applications
- Have detailed knowledge of Java
- Know a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot
- Have experience running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Have experience engineering scalable, reliable solutions in a cloud-native environment
- Deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
- Own code and technical solutions throughout their lifecycle, from development to production
- Have experience integrating third-party providers and partners
- Have experience with relational databases
- Work effectively in an agile environment
- Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Apply continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices
- Lead teams and directly manage people
Responsibilities
- Lead and directly manage a cross-functional team
- Partner with a Product Manager to form the Product Engineering Duo
- Own team delivery, including quality, stability, timelines, and dependencies
- Own technical excellence and architecture within the team’s scope
- Drive continuous improvement in team performance using DORA metrics
- Support the continuous growth and wellbeing of engineers
- Contribute hands-on through design and coding
- Coach team members and advise on difficult technical problems
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Parental Leave days
- Family-Friendly Leave
- Personal learning and development budget of 500 EUR per year
- Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Sabbatical Leave
- Share options
- Team Events
- Flexible workplace model supporting in-person and remote work