Engineering Manager for Finance & Payments

At Famly, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to manage our growing number of highly skilled engineers, and to help us build an even greater product. 

As EM for our Finance & Payments crew, you will help manage and build all finance and payments related features in our product. The domain is relatively complex, and since we deal with money, we are extra cautious of errors and faults. Experience with Stripe or other payments platforms, preferably for b2b payment, is an advantage but not a requirement. We expect a deep technical understanding, enabling you to assist with debugging, tech-scoping, and maybe some smaller feature development.

The position is preferably in Copenhagen, but if you have strong experience with working as a remote manager, we are open for remote positions as well.

And Famly are...? Well it all began when our co-founder Henrik’s daughter was ready to start at daycare. He couldn’t believe the amount of work being done on paper - and how distant he felt from his first child during the day. The paper ‘parent’ books they exchanged once a month just weren’t cutting it. Together with his friend, our co-founder and CEO Anders, they set about solving that.

These days, the 140 of us building Famly talk about trying to do two things for our 6,500+ customers:

• Giving children the best possible start to life.

• Championing the vital work that goes into making that happen.

We do it with software that brings hundreds of thousands of parents closer to their child’s day while they’re away from them. We also make financial, pedagogical, and planning tools for more than 50,000 childcare professionals, saving them hours and reducing their admin stress.

Ultimately, that gives them more time and headspace for the little ones that really matter. Come help us make that happen.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing a crew (team) of approx. 7 engineers, some on-site and some fully remote

• Work closely with your crew's product manager to plan out and prioritise development work for the crew

• Assist with debugging, controlling and investigation of payments inquiries

• Participate scoping out work and initial early estimation for features

• Running efficient development processes, building great features but also creating time for handling tech-debt, fixing bugs, and maintaining our platform.

• Collaborate with departments outside of Engineering and be the anchor point to your crew

• Facilitate and plan technical onboarding of new engineers

• Actively participate in the hiring of new engineers, both on-location and remote working

• In collaboration with other EMs and our CTO, work on ensuring we have the best development processes

• Develop and motivate your team of engineers

• Depending on skills and wishes, participate partially in development, bug-triage or fixing.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Love to work with and develop highly skilled engineers

• Are good at motivating others to do their best

• Find pleasure in structuring and executing highly efficient development processes

• Are curious on new technologies, potentially also contributing

• Have good communication skills

And it’d be even better if you:

• Have a technical background, potentially experience with Scala, PHP or React

• Enjoy a technical challenge, and are not afraid to contribute with actual code

• Have experience as a Scrum master or Product owner

• Previous experience as EM or team-lead

• Have experience with Stripe or other payment platforms. Preferably in a b2b context

You'll be working with:

You will be working with other engineering managers (currently 4-5 others) at the Copenhagen office and will participate in all aspects of managing a growing group of engineers, including hiring and people management.

You will be responsible for running a crew as the dedicated engineering manager on the crew. A crew consists of 6-8 engineers, an engineering manager, PM (product manager) and potentially a product designer. The engineers might be working remotely or on-site.

You will have the people management of the engineers on the crew and hence you need to have good people and communication skills.

In close collaboration with the PM in the crew and our VP of Product, you will be responsible for planning development, new features as well as maintenance. You will participate in the planning and execution of development cycles.

Together with our CTO and the other engineering managers, you will be part of an efficient management team that has the authority to develop the best possible processes to ensure that we keep on delivering a great product to our customers

Our tech-stack consists of Scala, PHP, React, MySQL, Kubernetes and AWS and it will be an advantage, but not a requirement, if you have good technical insight.

You might have a background as an engineer or other technical background. Having experience with Scala or other functional programming languages is a plus.

You will report to our CTO.

You’ll love working here because:

• We offer pension, health insurance, and maternity/paternity leave.

• You get a clear career framework and coaching to make sure you’re growing, a 10,000 DKK personal development budget and a ‘We’ll buy you any book you want’ policy.

• We’re all about hiring a diverse array of clever people - who are kind and good humans too. It means Famly is full of top thinkers and generous teammates waiting to help you shine.

• A value of ‘make your colleagues shine' is all about breaking down silos, celebrating one another, and staying connected across departments, offices, and oceans.

• We like to give a lot of ownership both in terms of responsibility and freedom to try new, challenging tasks.

• Top-notch work equipment.

• A lot of flexibility for you to work in the way (and place) that suits you best, while making sure we maintain a strong in-office connection.

• Social activities… enjoy many opportunities for team fun with dinners out, office BBQs, Friday bar, big quarterly social events, game nights, and more!

The interview process looks like:

• An intro video chat with our People Partner

• Logical test

• An interview with our CTO

• An interview with two of our other EM’s

• An interview with one of our PM’s

We appreciate that everyone brings something unique, so even if you don’t tick every box above, we’d still love to read your application.

We're looking to fill the position as soon as possible, so get your application in today by sending us:

• Your CV

• A cover letter to tell us what you can bring to the role, and what speaks to you about Famly.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Famly is committed to creating a more diverse, equal, and inclusive workforce, building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. It is a fundamental policy at Famly not to discriminate on any basis or characteristics and celebrate diversity. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply.