Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.
Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll help to elevate your team's technical standards by championing sustainable development, prioritising operational excellence, and fostering a quality-first mindset. You’ll strike a balance between ambitious technical goals and pragmatic delivery, ensuring that reliability, security, and long-term scalability are integral, not secondary.
The Engineering Manager shall ensure that the team's purpose and accountability are tightly integrated with the organisation's strategic objectives, creating an environment where engineers can dedicate their focus to high-value work, consistently shipping value early and often.
Whether engaging with the team, collaborating across the organisation, or in broader professional interactions, you’ll focus on building mutual understanding, aligning individuals around a shared purpose, establishing trust, and enabling action with empathy.
In joining a newly formed team, you’ll be joining a dynamic environment in which ambiguity is not a hurdle, but an opportunity. You’ll have the confidence to navigate evolving priorities and shifting landscapes with a forward-looking perspective, and convert uncertainty into focused action, leveraging the energy of change to drive innovation.
Job located in Berlin, Copenhagen,
Delivery: Own outcomes and help the team deliver what matters.
People: Build and grow a strong, motivated team.
Technical Leadership: Guide technical decisions and be accountable for the implementation: you own technical outcomes, without centralising every technical decision personally.
Architecture & DevOps: Bring strong technical judgement on testing, observability, incident response readiness, and security/privacy/data compliance ownership and embrace “you build it, you run it.”
Agile: Help the team find the ways of working that work best for them.
Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, EMs and the Domain Engineer.
Customer Focus: Keep customer needs at the heart of decisions.
AI: Use AI in practical ways to improve how we build software.
0-3 Months
Form the team and build relationships.
Define the mission, vision and roadmap with the trio.
Set up the team for successful delivery.
Establish the team's ways of working.
Start AI adoption within the team.
3-6 Months
Deliver the first building blocks of the global accounting kernel.
Establish a sustainable delivery rhythm.
Move towards AI-native engineering practices.
6-12 months
Continue delivering and evolving the accounting kernel to 9+ europeen countries.
Build a strong, high-performing team.
Further embed AI-native engineering practices.
Senior EM focus only:
Support other teams and domains.
Contribute to the wider engineering organisation.
Help set up or accelerate AI adoption across R&D.
You're an experienced Engineering Manager who combines strong delivery, people leadership and technical capability. You're comfortable with ambiguity, change and making decisions without having all the answers.
Must-Have Experience:
2+ years Engineering Management experience, ideally with experience in a second EM role.
Strong technical background and ability to challenge technical decisions.
Full SDLC and DevOps experience: testing, observability, incident response readiness, and security/privacy/data compliance ownership - "you build it, you run it."
Strong and production-proven opinions on architecture, design, testing and cloud (AWS preferred).
Strong Delivery Management experience: you own the roadmap, steer timeline conversations on metrics, drive forecasting, balance feature work against technical improvements, operations and maintenance.
Strong People Leadership experience: run structured 1:1s, manage the career development, have direct performance conversations, establish an inclusive environment with high psychological safety.
Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
Strong Agile mindset, with experience in Kanban or similar.
Customer-focused and able to connect technical work to customer problems.
Active engagement with AI beyond experimentation - you have proven experience in using AI inside of software engineering/R&D. Youcan critically evaluate their impact
Discovery experience working with Product and Design.
Specific programming language experience such as TypeScript, React or Node.js is not mandatory.
Nice to Have
1️⃣ Screening call with Talent Acquisition (45 mins): An initial conversation covering your background, motivations, expectations, and an overview of the role.
2️⃣ Hiring Manager Interview (60 mins): A deep dive into your leadership journey, people management approach, and delivery execution.
3️⃣ Technical Interview (60 mins): A technical discussion focusing on your technical depth, engineering standards, and architectural experience.
4️⃣ Architecture & Delivery Case (75 mins): A practical case study session evaluating system design, delivery management, and handling ambiguity in trade-off decisions.
5️⃣ Meet the Trio (30 mins): A strategic alignment conversation with key leadership partners focusing on cross-functional collaboration.
6️⃣ Personality Assessment Feedback (30 mins): A collaborative review of your workplace personality questionnaire to discuss communication preferences and working styles.
7️⃣ Meet the Team (30 mins): An informal session with your future team members and peers to explore team cohesion, daily collaboration, and culture fit.
