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 team of 8–12 engineers. You will partner with a Product Manager, own delivery quality, stability, timelines, dependencies, technical excellence, and architecture. You will contribute through design and coding while coaching engineers and improving team performance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building server-side applications
- Knowledge of Python, Java, C#, or a similar language
- Knowledge of a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot
- Experience running microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience engineering scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions
- Experience delivering secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
- Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices
- Experience leading teams
- Experience directly managing people
Responsibilities
- Lead and directly manage a cross-functional team of 8–12 engineers
- Partner with a Product Manager to form the Product Engineering Duo
- Own delivery quality, stability, timelines, and dependencies
- Own technical excellence and architecture within the team’s scope
- Drive continuous improvement in team performance measured by DORA
- Support the growth and wellbeing of engineers
- Contribute hands-on through design and coding
- Coach team members and advise on difficult problems
Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- Personal learning and development budget of 500 EUR per year
- 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
