Engineering Manager Infrastructure – Remote-First

🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays In today’s digital Europe, payments still feel too complicated. Random delays, confusing rules, extra apps and accounts make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative is changing that with Wero, a proudly European digital wallet to make payments easier, clearer and more secure. Online, in store, at home and across borders, with your money and data protected under European laws and regulations. Wero is live in Belgium, France and Germany and launching very soon in Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Backed by 16 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, we’re building a brand new, proudly European payment system. Why not join us? 🔎 What's in it for you At EPI, we are on a mission to build and deliver a meaningful European payment solution that strengthens the European payment ecosystem. Acting as both bridge and builder, we aim to create a secure, innovative, and unified payment experience for consumers across Europe. This is your chance to join a transparent, collaborative, and open-minded organization that adapts to change and strives for excellence. If you’re passionate about payments, thrive in technical problem-solving, and want to make a positive impact daily, then this role is for you. 🐝 About the team You will lead a team of 10 Infrastructure Engineers responsible for building, scaling, and operating the core platform infrastructure powering EPI’s payment ecosystem. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and SRE teams to ensure our infrastructure remains scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and aligned with business growth objectives. 💥 Your impact Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10 infrastructure engineers Drive infrastructure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence initiatives Maintain a strong hands-on technical involvement in architecture, debugging, automation, and incident management Own and manage the team’s on-call rotations and incident response processes Define and monitor operational KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs for infrastructure reliability and performance Build and optimize financial governance around infrastructure and cloud costs Drive initiatives toward zero-downtime deployments and highly available distributed systems Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to support platform scalability and performance requirements Lead post-mortems and root cause analyses to continuously improve platform reliability Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement Contribute to long-term infrastructure and platform strategy 💻 Technology stack Backend: Kotlin or Java with Ktor Database: MongoDB APIs: OpenAPI Infrastructure & Containers: Docker and Kubernetes Cloud: AWS Architecture: Event Sourcing Testing: Kotest 🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements Experience: 6+ years in Software,Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles, including management experience Leadership: Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in high-scale environments Scalability: Strong experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems Reliability Engineering: Hands-on experience with high availability, disaster recovery, incident management, and zero-downtime strategies Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures Backend Knowledge: Solid engineering background in Kotlin or Java ecosystems Monitoring & Observability: Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability best practices Financial Governance: Experience defining and optimizing infrastructure cost KPIs and cloud spend governance Operational Excellence: Experience managing on-call rotations, incident response, and operational processes Communication: Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align technical initiatives with business goals Coaching & Mentoring: Passionate about helping engineers grow technically and professionally Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset and ability to make pragmatic technical and operational decisions in fast-moving environments Languages: Fluent in English (CEFR C1 or C2); additional European languages are a plus 🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are: A first call with one of our recruiters A technical skills interview with a team member A leadership Interview with one of our Engineering Managers A final interview around culture fit with our CPTO Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse ⛔ Turn back if … You prefer staying fully hands-off technically You are uncomfortable operating in evolving and fast-paced environments You do not enjoy balancing strategic leadership with operational execution 🎁 What we can offer Remote-first culture with quarterly and annual all-staff in-person meetups to keep teams connected and collaborative Possibility to work from another EU country for up to 3 months per year Competitive compensation package, featuring salary, performance-based bonus, and a thoughtfully designed, high-quality benefits program The opportunity to be part of a multicultural European company Learning & development budget : €5,000 training budget per year Otherwise apply! 🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.