Head of Engineering (m/f/d) / Technical Lead (m/f/d)

zvoove

JOB DESCRIPTION zvoove Go is the digital layer between staffing companies, their workforce, and their clients. It supports different user groups through dedicated web and mobile experiences. * Employee experience (Web & App): Shift- and time-related workflows, requests (e.g., absence), access to relevant documents, and day-to-day communication. * Client experience (Web): Operational oversight for end-client contacts, including approvals, assignment visibility, document access, and administrative workflows. The platform integrates with multiple ERP backends via APIs and supports several European markets. You own the full product management for zvoove Go — a multi-sided B2B2C and B2B2 platform (mobile + web) for staffing ecosystems, connecting staffing companies, temporary workers, and end clients. You drive vision, roadmap, and hands-on delivery for an internationally distributed squad. YOUR TASKS * Roadmap & Delivery: Own vision, prioritization and operational delivery (specs, backlog, sprint planning) within an international team  * Integration Management: Orchestrate interfaces to 4+ ERP backend systems via APIs — identify missing endpoints, negotiate timelines with other teams * Multi-Market Steering: Prioritize features across NL, AT and CH, working directly with each country’s Head of Product * Stakeholder Management: Run the operational cadence with external ERP partners (monthly SteerCo), country ops, engineering lead and QA * Multi-Persona Product Thinking: Balance competing needs across two portals and their user groups — temp workers, corporate contact persons, team leaders, dispatchers — while maintaining a coherent platform experience YOUR PROFILE Must-have * 3+ years Product Management in B2B SaaS, at least 1 year as the sole PM owning a product end-to-end * Hands-on experience with API-based integrations — you can discuss endpoints, payloads and trade-offs with engineers * Ability to translate complex cross-system workflows into clear specifications * Track record with internationally distributed stakeholders * AI-native workflow — you use AI tools (e.g. coding assistants, research agents, spec generators) as a daily force multiplier, not as a novelty * Data-driven Product Management and Go-to-Market – you know what metrics to track to optimize the product and go-to-market motion  * Fluent English (working language), one further market language is a plus (German / Dutch) * Thrive for ambiguity. You see technical challenges or complex rules as puzzles, not stop signs Nice-to-have * Domain experience in HR tech, staffing or workforce management * Experience with B2C mobile products (Flutter, React Native or similar) * Experience with multi-sided platforms serving distinct user groups YOUR BENEFITS * Collaboration within an empathetic and supportive team * You can put your knowledge and personal strengths to good use, and continue to develop your skills and grow * You’ll start with a structured onboarding process and learn ‘on the job’, through training sessions or informal learning formats and working in interdisciplinary and international teams * You’ll have the opportunity to benefit from our hybrid work concept, which includes working in the office, from home, on the move and on workations * A modern tech stack and agile working methods are a given * A wide range of benefits, e.g. pension scheme, health management – right through to staff discounts * Well-behaved dogs are very welcome at all our locations I LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR APPLICATION Svenja Krüßel D-49835 Wietmarschen-Lohne Tel.: 0170-7888740 E-Mail: career@zvoove.com

Finanzguru

DEINE MISSION Gemeinsam stellen wir sicher, dass unsere Nutzer im Bereich Versicherungen und Beratung die bestmögliche Unterstützung erhalten und wir unsere Sales-Prozesse datengetrieben optimieren. Unser Ziel: Ein nahtloses, transparentes und erfolgreiches Beratungserlebnis in der Finanzguru-App, das Vertrauen schafft und Abschlüsse maximiert. Wenn du Lust hast, als Expert:in Teil eines Top-Notch-Teams zu werden und gemeinsam mit uns die Zukunft unserer Versicherungs- und Vertriebsprozesse zu gestalten, dann bewirb dich! * Optimierung unserer Sales-Prozesse: Du arbeitest als integraler Bestandteil unseres Beratung Produktteams und gehst den Strukturen und Details unserer Sales-Prozesse und Funnel-Konversionen auf den Grund. * Erfolg messen: Du ownst die Logik und Implementierung aller sales-relevanten KPIs des Produktteams, erstellst aussagekräftige Dashboards und lieferst schnelle, präzise Ad-hoc-Analysen. * Vielseitige Insights: Du erstellst Data Products (Dashboards, Analysen, Datasets, …), die es dem Produkt- und Vertriebsteam erlauben, datenbasierte Entscheidungen zur Optimierung der Customer Journey zu treffen. * Klare Handlungsempfehlungen: Du bereitest komplexe Vertriebs- und Produkt-Insights so auf, dass sie für jeden im Unternehmen - vom Product Owner bis zum Sales-Experten - gut zu verstehen sind. * Analytics Org: Du wirkst bei der Umsetzung zentraler Data Analytics Projekte mit, z.B. bei Initiativen zur besseren Aufbereitung von Domänenwissen für AI systeme  DEIN TEAM Im Versicherungs-Beratungsteam gestaltest du die digitale Versicherungsberatung von Finanzguru - vom Lead bis zum Abschluss. Wir optimieren Beratungsprozesse, Tools und UIs, damit unsere Expert:innen effizient beraten und Kund:innen bestmöglich absichern können. Als bewusst kleines, spezialisiertes Team trägst du früh Verantwortung für Hypothesen, A/B-Tests und Features mit direktem Impact auf Umsatz und Kundenerlebnis. Warum wir dich brauchen: Da es sich um eine Elternzeitvertretung handelt, suchen wir ab sofort eine starke Unterstützung für einen Zeitraum von 12 Monaten. Wir brauchen jemanden, der direkt Verantwortung übernimmt und sofort eigenständig durchstarten kann. DEINE MAGISCHEN KRÄFTE * Erfahrung: Du bringst mindestens 5 Jahre Erfahrung im Bereich Product Analytics, Sales Analytics, Analytics Engineering oder Data Science mit – idealerweise mit Erfahrung im InsurTech-/FinTech-Umfeld. * Tech & Big-Data: Du verfügst über sehr gute Kenntnisse in Python, SQL und PySpark und nutzt diese, um große Datenmengen effizient zu analysieren. Du bist in der Lage, effiziente Tabellentransformationen selbst zu erstellen. Pluspunkte, wenn du schon mit Databricks gearbeitet hast.  * Analytische Tiefe: Du übersetzt Stakeholder-Anforderungen in konkrete analytische Fragestellungen und stimmst dabei auch den erwarteten Business Impact und die Priorität ab. Du begleitest Projekte holistisch und durchdringst die Fachlichkeit sowie die dahinterstehenden Prozesse tiefgehend. * Proaktivität & Drive: Du identifizierst proaktiv und quantifizierst selbstständig Potenziale, wie wir die Abschlussstrecken und das Beratungsprodukt datenseitig optimieren können. * Kommunikationsstärke: Du bist in der Lage, Ergebnisse aus deinen Analysen Stakeholder-gerecht, zielgerichtet und verständlich zu kommunizieren. * Sprachkompetenz & Verfügbarkeit: Du sprichst verhandlungssicher Deutsch (min. C1, essentiell für das Verständnis unserer deutschen Beratungsprozesse) und bist zeitnah für eine Projektdauer von 12 Monaten verfügbar. UNSER VERSPRECHEN Flexibles Anstellungsmodell: Ob im Rahmen einer auf 12 Monate befristeten Festanstellung oder als freiberufliche:r Interim-Manager:in (Freelancer) – wir bieten dir genau das Setup, das am besten zu deiner aktuellen Lebenssituation passt. Remote-first: Du kannst dauerhaft zu 100% von überall aus Deutschland arbeiten. Für noch mehr Abwechslung ist das mobile Arbeiten für die Dauer von bis zu einem halben Jahr auch aus der Europäischen Wirtschaftsunion (EWR) heraus möglich. Echtes Sparring & Top-Notch Standard: Du tauschst dich regelmäßig direkt mit unserem Head of Data und einem starken Data-Team aus. Du arbeitest mit modernen Tools und Methoden in einem hochprofessionellen Umfeld. Maximaler Impact: Du gestaltest die Zukunft unseres Beratungsprodukts in einer der erfolgreichsten Finanz-Apps Deutschlands aktiv mit. Deine Analysen versinken nicht in der Schublade, sondern fließen direkt in Produktverbesserungen ein. Gelebte Transparenz: Transparenz ist uns wichtig. Im Falle einer Festanstellung erwartet dich ein faires, marktgerechtes Gehalt basierend auf unserem datengestützten Leveling-Framework.

Moniepoint

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. About the role As a Head of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the entire technical landscape of our engineering organization. You will guide and lead engineering managers and their teams while ensuring we are building scalable, secure, and innovative architectures. Working closely with business leaders and engineering managers (EMs), you will help align our technical vision with business goals and ensure a smooth pipeline from coding to deployment. The role is hands-on, requiring a mix of leadership, technical expertise, and operational excellence. We are looking for someone who has a strong engineering background, leadership skills, and a passion for fostering collaboration and trust within teams. You will be accountable for setting technical standards, addressing technical debt, mentoring teams, and ensuring the scalability and security of the product's architecture. In addition, you will oversee team development, recruitment, and performance management to build high-performing teams capable of delivering results on time. What you’ll get to do * Contribute to and drive the company-wide technology strategy, ensuring the platform and broader business systems are prepared to scale reliably across markets, products, and growing transaction volumes. * Own the technical strategy across the ecosystem, aligning architecture, infrastructure, and delivery with company goals for reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. * Guide architectural and solution design decisions across teams, removing technical roadblocks for Engineers, and ensuring robust, future-proof system and software architecture. * Build, lead, and scale multiple high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors. * Strengthen team capacity and capability through proactive mentorship, structured career development, succession planning, and rigorous performance management. * Drive hiring strategy and org design to support near-term and medium-term growth of the engineering organization. * Establish and continuously improve end-to-end observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks to support high system availability (targeting 99.9999%+ uptime). * Improve software reliability across the platform by implementing strong operational excellence practices and incident response mechanisms. * Set and uphold high standards for engineering excellence, including code quality, testing, QA automation, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline maturity. * Proactively manage and reduce technical debt while leading company-wide initiatives to improve overall codebase health and maintainability. * Improve methodologies and systems for tracking engineering metrics, system health, team performance, and developer productivity. * Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as system performance, transaction success rates, infrastructure efficiency, cost optimization, and team velocity. * Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining performance, reliability, and security standards. * Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Business stakeholders to ensure engineering delivery aligns with company priorities and regulatory requirements. * Ensure systems are secure-by-design, with strong ownership of data privacy, fraud prevention, and regulatory readiness. * Build and maintain long-term technical and architectural roadmaps to keep the platform ahead of industry and technology trends. * Foster a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture grounded in accountability, autonomy, continuous learning, and operational excellence. * Contribute to broader company-wide engineering initiatives across financial services and business tooling (e.g., Payment,  lending, savings, deposits, cards, and business management platforms) to elevate the overall engineering organization. To succeed in this role, we think you should have * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. * 12-15 years of hands-on software development experience, including 5+ years of successfully leading multiple engineering teams and driving large-scale technical initiatives * Significant prior experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong track record of designing scalable systems and operating in a software architecture capacity (approximately 60/40 technical and people leadership). * Strong backend engineering expertise, with practical experience deploying production systems (e.g., using Spring Boot or similar modern backend frameworks); frontend exposure is a plus. * Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and managing technical debt at scale. * Demonstrated ability to lead managers and multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously in complex, fast-paced environments. * Prior experience managing distributed and remote teams across multiple geographies. * Strong experience with agile methodologies, sprint planning, and efficient technical resource management. * Proven track record of mentoring, performance management, and developing high-performing engineering teams. * Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across engineering and non-technical stakeholders. * Experience introducing engineering innovations that materially improve team productivity, delivery speed, and operational efficiency. * Experience in fintech or regulated technology environments is a strong plus, especially in high-scale platforms. * Exposure to emerging markets or a strong interest in solving problems related to financial inclusion and financial well-being is advantageous. Cultural Alignment (Must-Have Soft Skills) * High Agency & Ownership: A sense of urgency and 100% involvement; you seek out impactful problems and act without waiting for permission. * Grit: The perseverance to see complex problems through to resolution, especially when challenges are difficult. * Clarity of Thought: The ability to articulate complex concepts and technical decisions with precision and candour. * Empathy: Strong empathy for the business, customers, and engineering team to ensure effective prioritization and decision-making. * No Ego: Prioritizes team success and actively collaborates with others. Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with * Java (latest versions) * Spring and Spring Boot * Docker and Kubernetes * PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic Search * Microservices architecture on AWS What we can offer you * Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human. * Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks. * Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance,, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits. What to expect in the hiring process * Stage 1: A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. * Stage 2: System Design - You’ll be asked to solve complex system design problems to assess your technical and architectural skills. * Stage 3: Technical Leadership & Architecture round - with two of our Heads of Engineering, dive deeper into technical challenges with advanced system design problems and assess your ability to lead others.  * Stage 4: PM/Cultural Fit & Leadership - Explore your leadership qualities, cultural fit, and ability to drive technical teams while fostering a positive, inclusive environment. * Stage 5: Founder Interview: 60 minute interview with our Co-founder/CTO   How to apply: Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile via our career website. Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates. #LI-Remote