Engineering Manager - Product Engineering (f/m/x)
About lemon.markets 🍋
We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses, providing seamless access to capital markets. By empowering FinTechs, Banks and Wealth Managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.
lemon.markets provides a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform for simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure makes launching an investment product customer-centric and compliant. We abstract all complexity for our partners through a well documented API, a self-service customer operations portal and operating in a clear regulatory framework. Enabling partners to launch in weeks, not months.
We have experienced first hand that brokerage infrastructure is broken. Building an investment product used to be highly expensive, challenging and cumbersome. We ease this pain by shielding our partners & their customers from the underlying complexity - and with that, we make investing seamlessly accessible to everyone. Because that’s exactly what we enjoy, going to places nobody else dares and solving hard problems. This not only creates tons of value when done right, but attracts the smartest minds - because outlier companies are built by exceptional people like you.
Your Mission:
You’ll join as an Engineering Manager in our Product Engineering organisation, focusing on one of our core brokerage domains. From the start, you will lead one engineering team end-to-end in one of these domains. As we scale in 2026, we expect this scope to expand to two teams.
As Engineering Manager, your mission is to inspire and guide engineers to grow individually and within the organisation, raising the bar on operational excellence, automation and risk management in a highly regulated environment. You are ready to drive change, simplify complex systems and experiment in search of the best solutions for our partners, our operations teams and our regulators.
You’ll build a strong understanding of your domain’s product and business context, and use this knowledge to guide your teams. There will be strong engineers in your teams who take day-to-day ownership for technical design, standards and delivery quality, while you focus on creating the environment, clarity and structure in which they (and the whole team) can excel.
This is your opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and collaborate with experienced professionals from Product, Brokerage and Operations, building upon your previous experiences to build the investment infrastructure for the next 100 million retail investors in Europe.
You will:
50% Shipping value: Own engineering outcomes and operational health in your domain. Set clear goals with Product and Operations, ruthlessly drive focus and clarity, and remove blockers so engineers can ship valuable work consistently.
40% Growing people: Hire, develop and retain engineers, growing the next generation of technical leaders. Set clear expectations, give regular feedback and manage performance. Create a high‑energy environment where strong people want to join, stay and grow.
10% Engaging technically: Stay close enough to the code and systems to earn the respect of senior ICs. You fly high but can dive deep: reviewing designs, engaging in technical discovery and incident follow‑ups, and using your technical judgment to ask sharp questions and make trade‑offs.
Drive focus and closure. Shape your teams’ ways of working so that they tackle a small number of high‑impact initiatives at a time, and push dependencies, blockers or incidents, to clear decisions and outcomes.
Partner with Product and Operations to define the strategy and goals for your domain.
Raise the bar on quality, reliability, and security. Co-own domain posture with senior ICs and ensure big technical work is justified and deliverable.
Grow strong ICs into leaders. Identify high‑potential engineers and give them clear ownership, stretch projects, and feedback so they can grow into Senior+ roles.
Foster trust, productive conflict, and knowledge sharing within your teams. Build trust, productive conflict, and knowledge sharing. Celebrate wins and clearly communicate your team’s impact cross-functionally.
Expand your team with great engineers. Work with senior leadership on headcount, team structure, and role definitions as we scale
Partner with Operations to identify possibilities to improve operational efficiency.
You will be successful in this role if:
You have gained profound technical leadership experience as Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering. You have led and grown one or more backend-heavy teams in a fast-paced environment and achieved ambitious goals.
Brokerage, payment, or financial services excite you. Ideally, you had prior touch points to Fintech professionally.
Have solid experience with API-first, cloud-based architectures, and know what good looks like in terms of reliability, observability, security, and incident response in production systems.
You take pride in being technical. You can read and review well-structured, tested code in a modern high-level language, challenge designs and trade-offs, and bring a pragmatic engineering perspective to product discussions without needing to be the primary implementer.
You have a deep understanding of software development processes and their failure modes, and know how to set a team up for success.
You are an empathic leader that can inspire others. You know how to encourage strong (cross-functional) collaboration, develop your team members and foster a strong sense of collaboration across the whole team.
You have an intrinsic motivation to understand the product and business side of things. You are keen to contribute to & influence the wider company direction and culture.
We're looking for people with passion, desire to learn and that are team players. You're encouraged to apply, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out - and set you apart - especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns.
How we take care of you:
🚀Competitive compensation package:
We offer you a competitive salary and benefits package, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.
💎Make a real impact:
Shape the experience for our customers and us alike. Decide on tools, processes and the architecture design of our Platform & API, while building, learning and growing together.
🕑Flexible working hours:
We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication.
💻Build your perfect setup:
Mac, Mechanical Keyboard, Screen. These are not expenses but investments. Please tell us what is needed to make you productive, and we will take care of it.
🏢 Hybrid work:
We all believe that in-person collaboration is an integral part of working together, but we offer flexibility to work from home across Europe. That means, lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site, spending quality time together with the team at events, offsites or over team dinners.
📈 Grow with us:
We take your personal development seriously, meaning that we make sure to constantly mentor and challenge you so that you can reach your next level and beyond.
👶🏽 Get the flexibility you need:
Whether you have a family or a passion that you want to follow on the side. We want to offer you a setting that fits your current stage in life.
💛 Perks & benefits:
We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.
🏝 Workation:
Work from anywhere in the EU for up to 60 days per year.
About the process
Hiring can be an exhausting process, especially when you're the one trying to get hired. Therefore, we try to make this a fast and transparent process. Additionally, you will always have one contact person guiding you through the process and helping you to schedule meetings, and setting you up on a path of success. Your process will look like this:
Get to know us - Melissa - Talent | 40 minutes
Engineering Deep Dive - Sam - CTO | 60 minutes
Meet us @lemon.markets HQ | 165 minutes
Case study Discussion - Sam - CTO & Joan - Engineering Manager | 60 minutes
Principles Session - A selection of lemoneers | 45 minutes
System Design - A selection of Engineers | 60 minutes