Engineering Manager

About Taulia

Taulia is a fintech company that is part of the SAP group. More than 2 million businesses in over 150 countries collaborate on our network. Our customers include Airbus, AstraZeneca, and Nissan. We help them and their suppliers access cash when and where they need it most. Some of our customers have improved their working capital by more than $1 billion while making their supply chains more resilient and sustainable. For more information, please visit www.taulia.com.

About the Job

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to lead a dynamic development team within our innovative Fintech software company. In this role, you will be a key driver of our engineering efforts, responsible for the technical direction and delivery of our products. You will combine your deep technical expertise with strong leadership and management skills to guide a team of engineers, ensuring the successful execution of our product roadmap. This position requires a professional who is not only a seasoned software developer, but also a proven leader capable of mentoring and inspiring a team to achieve its full potential.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management:

• Directly manage a team of engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and career development support.
• Conduct daily stand-ups, regular backlog grooming meetings, sprint/release planning meetings, and retrospectives to ensure team alignment and efficiency.
• Recruit, hire, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a high-performing and collaborative team culture.
• Project manage key team deliverables, ensuring projects are properly scoped, tracked, planned, and communicated from inception to completion.

Strategic & Technical Oversight:

• Meet frequently with all relevant stakeholders to discuss roadmap planning, project priorities, architectural initiatives, and cross-team alignment.
• Contribute to the team’s roadmap deliverables as an engineering leader.
• Conduct epic-level project design reviews with all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement on company-wide applications and work across all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Coordinate monitoring, alerting, triage, escalation (on-call), and incident management for all team-owned production systems.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Collaborate regularly with product managers to ensure accuracy of acceptance criteria for project and story delivery.
• Participate in presenting deliverables and milestones during regular sprint reviews, product reviews, and demos.
• Fulfill a leadership role as a subject-matter expert, defining and influencing cross-team interdependent roadmaps.
• Work with an understanding of our company mission, product offerings, and software infrastructure to ensure alignment and effective collaboration across all departments.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

Experience:

• 8+ years of software development experience on large-scale, high-volume systems.
• 1-2+ years of direct experience successfully leading and managing development teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Experience with coding and leading teams working on a production codebase.
• Demonstrated ability to build, motivate, and mentor high-performing engineering teams.

Technical Proficiency:

• Well-versed in the software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Ability to contribute to multiple systems as needed, with a broad understanding of the company's software infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills to tackle problems of moderate to high complexity.

Leadership & Management:

• Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to train and mentor other engineers in both technical and soft skills.
• Effective in task and story estimation, even with extended timelines and varying degrees of accuracy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• A deep understanding of how your work affects and influences the company's long-term performance and external reputation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing software with AI tools is a plus, demonstrating an understanding of their application in modern software systems.
• Proficient in writing maintainable, reusable code in Groovy/Java using Spring, Jersey and more.
• Experience developing low-latency scalable micro-services and APIs that participate in a graph of constantly evolving services oriented architecture.
• Experience building Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable or other financial software.