Engineering Manager

Job description

At Bondora, our mission is simple: to make finance easy, transparent, and accessible for everyone. Founded in 2008, we’ve helped more than 700,000 customers across Europe borrow and invest effortlessly through our trusted digital products. As a rapidly growing financial technology company, we’re reaching new heights with a bold vision. We’re set to acquire a banking license, unlocking a world of possibilities for our customers. This transition will allow us to expand our lending across more EU countries and broaden our product suite to deliver even more value. Join us on this journey and let’s build the future of finance together! ### 👋 What is this role about? As an **Engineering Manager**, you’ll lead a team of Product Engineers building solutions across Loan Servicing and Banking. This is a hands-on role combining **people leadership, technical direction and product ownership**. You’ll drive delivery of product initiatives, ensure high engineering and operational standards, and help engineers grow and take ownership. You’ll stay close to the technology, contributing to architecture and key technical decisions. You’ll also help shape our **AI-native engineering practices**, improving how we use LLM tools to build and automate software development. This role offers high ownership, diverse technical and product challenges, and a direct impact on Bondora’s journey to becoming a modern digital bank. ### 🚀 Your main responsibilities will be: - Own team delivery (planning, resourcing, negotiating, unblocking, managing expectations) - Own product outcomes in loan servicing and banking - Set standards and follow through on quality and operational excellence - Lead product engineers - hire, coach, performance manage, motivate, inspire - Continuous improvement and iteration of LLM-powered workflows - Lead product initiatives and coach engineers to lead initiatives - Set short-mid-term technical direction - Excel in cross-functional communication ### 💡 What would ensure success in this role? - Experience writing code in a strictly typed language using OOP principles, such as C#, C++, Rust or Go - 2+ years of directly managing software engineers, including hiring, coaching and performance management, combined with a previous track record as a Software or Product Engineer - Track record of building products with ML/LLM-powered features - Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Copilot as part of your everyday working practices - A strong product mindset — you consider customer and business impact when prioritising and designing solutions - Experience owning team delivery, managing scope and communicating progress and challenges transparently - A track record of setting pragmatic short-term technical direction within a broader engineering strategy - Experience leading product initiatives end to end - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills ### 🌱 What can you expect at Bondora? - Contribute to Bondora’s ambitious goal of reaching 1BN in revenue. Your skills and efforts will directly impact our growth trajectory and shape the future of our company. - Our employees deserve the best. We recognize our people with a competitive salary and a generous benefits package (5 weeks of vacation, private healthcare compensation, hobby grant, mental healthcare support, share options and much more!) - We provide an environment that encourages your personal and professional growth. As we constantly evolve and innovate, you’ll have endless opportunities (and budget) to expand your skills and skyrocket your career. ### **🔎 The next steps** If you have the guts, ideas, and are ready to transform the fintech industry, apply now! ### **Our hiring process:** 1️⃣ Meet our Recruiter **Anna** — your first conversation is a chance to share your experience and aspirations. 2️⃣ Meet **Martin Sulg,** your direct manager - dive deeper into the team, challenges and expectations of the role. 3️⃣ **Case study** - showcase how you think and work together with members of our Engineering team. 4️⃣ **Assessments** - complete our personality and logic assessments. 5️⃣ Meet **Liisi Klettenberg**, your business lead. **6️⃣** Conversation with**- **Mirko Adari**, Chief Product and Technology officer.** **7️⃣** Final interview with ****Juris Rieksts-Riekstins**. Chief Credit Officer,** the bar raiser. 🎉 **The celebration begins** — if the stars align, receive an offer to join the Bondora team! *This is a hybrid role that requires the candidate to be located in Tallinn or Tartu in Estonia.* Join our team of Bondorians, and let's make it happen! If you'd like to read how Bondora collects, uses, and protects your personal data during recruitment, please see [HERE.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFXtB3BFMhcYLdIR-GQFxHud-arEGVTy/view?usp=sharing)