A fast-growing, VC-backed European fintech building B2B payment infrastructure — corporate cards, credit lines, and embedded finance tools — for companies with complex spend-management needs. The platform serves thousands of business customers and partner platforms across Europe, giving them API-first tooling and credit flexibility to run payments without friction. The team operates with a flat structure, ships fast, and is increasingly building its own AI-native tooling into day-to-day engineering work.

- 4+ years of software development experience with Python (Go a strong plus), including 2+ years in a leadership or management role - Hands-on experience building CI/CD systems, internal developer portals, or golden paths, with enough codebase fluency to stay useful and earn engineers' trust in your technical calls - Deep, practical experience with Kubernetes-based platforms — cluster APIs, namespaces, RBAC, and admission control - A product mindset for internal tooling — you've shipped something internal that people chose over the workaround - Experience hiring engineers, including at least one hire that taught you something - Security-first thinking that shows up in the design, not just the vocabulary - Fintech or regulated-environment experience is a genuine plus - Comfortable reading a stack trace or build log for services you don't write day to day, and telling a configuration issue from a code bug - Fluent English

- Own the “golden path”: deployment templates, opinionated CI/CD patterns on top of the Kubernetes platform, production readiness checklists, and onboarding flows that get a new service to production without a support ticket - Treat developer satisfaction as a metric — track golden-path adoption, deployment lead time, and time-to-first-deploy, and own it when engineers route around the platform - Lead the standardisation of AI-assisted development tooling across the company, becoming the team's most credible user of it - Build the team from zero — own hiring, culture, and technical bar from the first hire