Engineering Manager - Billing & Payments (f/m/d)

Purpose of Position

In the Billing & Payments Tribe, we design the experiences that define how our customers pay-and how our partners get paid. As we scale, we're creating a new engineering team and are looking for an Engineering Manager to shape it from the ground up.

This role is ideal for an experienced people leader who thrives in complex domains, values strong feedback loops, and enjoys building autonomous, high-performing teams with real ownership and impact.

Key Tasks

As an Engineering Manager, your primary focus is people, delivery, and impact.

You will:

• Lead and grow a team of 5-6 engineers across Germany, Romania, and other engineering hubs
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting both career growth and technical excellence
• Foster strong feedback loops that support continuous learning and improvement
• Create a safe, empowering environment where decisions are delegated and ownership is clear
• Partner closely with Product Management to define team goals, priorities, and OKRs
• Own delivery commitments and continuously improve team effectiveness and predictability
• Collaborate with other tribes, platform teams, and enabling teams (Product, DevOps, UX, InfoSec, etc.)
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and individual development planning
• Represent your team toward stakeholders and contribute to engineering-wide strategy

Skills & Expertise

Required:

• 8+ years experience in software engineering
• 2+ years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role (Technical Leads transitioning into management are welcome)
• Experience building and scaling teams in distributed environments
• Strong coaching mindset with a passion for developing people
• Confidence operating in a financial or payments domain (e.g. billing, invoicing, payment flows, compliance)
• A solid technical foundation that allows you to:
  • Understand and discuss architecture and system design
  • Guide teams on testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
  • Consider long-term technical strategy, trade-offs, and system interactions
• A data-informed approach to decision-making, with a bias toward observability and learning
• A proactive mindset toward AI and emerging technologies, with the curiosity and willingness to experiment, learn, and leverage them to drive team efficiency and innovation

What we value

Beyond technical and leadership experience, we care deeply about:

• Clear, thoughtful communication-adapted to technical and non-technical audiences
• Pragmatic problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Curiosity about the business, customers, and the "why" behind the work
• A collaborative mindset and commitment to continuous improvement

• Flexi-Week: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing by offering you a four-day Flexi-Week (with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance.
• Flexi-office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our hybrid/remote working scheme which is designed to foster a culture of mutual trust and working flexibility.
• Work Expense Contribution & Remote Working Furniture: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs, as well as a furniture package to support you in setting up a comfortable workspace when working from home.
• Health and Wellbeing: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can focus on your mental and physical wellbeing.
• Development: We've built our extensive training suite, Awin Academy, to cover a wide range of skills that support your professional and personal growth, with trainings conveniently packaged to help your overall development.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer recognition programme.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we've had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual 'Life @ Awin' hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world's leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why

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