Engineering Manager - Payroll

Engineering Manager - Payroll Lead and grow Shine's Payroll product engineering, mentoring a diverse team to ship reliable, scalable payroll for the Dutch market. Apply We usually respond within three days 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 and Belgium. 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. 👀 The Payroll Product Team at Shine We are a small, ambitious, and close-knit product and tech team building modern payroll software for the Dutch market. Our product team consists of seven people: three backend engineers, two frontend engineers, a product designer, and a product manager, all working remotely in a highly collaborative environment. We are entering a new phase focused on building the best modern payroll solution in The Netherlands: a complex SaaS product with challenging domain logic, scalability challenges, and plenty of interesting technical problems to solve. Leading a team of dedicated experts, where the absence of corporate layers means faster decisions and genuine ownership, you'll be stepping into a lean, agile environment where your contribution is immediately impactful and highly visible. You’ll help us in engineering groundbreaking solutions that redefine an industry, delivering multiple significant projects and features for our customers, and by joining us, you will become a key part of making this vision a reality. While our core development team operates effectively from their remote base in Zwolle, we believe there is significant value in establishing a strong in-person presence at our fantastic Amsterdam headquarters for this specific role, enabling in-person collaboration, particularly with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams who are primarily based there. We remain open to considering alternative working arrangement for exceptional candidates from across the Netherlands and would encourage you to apply if such an arrangement is required. Come build the future with us. 📋 Your Role as an Engineering Manager in the Payroll Product Team We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is excited to help scale our engineering team, strengthen our delivery processes, and support the growth and success of our team. You will play a key role in building, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing engineering team, helping create an environment where engineers can do their best work and continue to grow. Our company is at an exciting inflection point in its growth trajectory. We are looking for a dedicated Engineering Manager who can provide strong people leadership, bring structure to execution and collaboration, and help the team scale effectively. As an Engineering Manager in our Payroll Product team, you’ll combine the need for speed and pragmatism with the non-negotiable demand for long-term reliability and scalability. You will be the force multiplier, significantly elevating our engineering quality bar, core standards, delivery processes, and collaborative spirit across the entire product and engineering organisation. Your role is multifaceted, encompassing leadership, technical mastery, operational discipline, and strategic foresight. The ideal candidate will provide a crucial balance of essential development principles: Leadership: Leading a small team that we aim to expand, you’ll cultivate a safe, ambitious, and collaborative engineering culture that is resilient and high-performing. You’ll coach, mentor, and develop a remote-friendly team, and lead by believing in empowerment over orders, instilling a culture where feedback is a gift, making sure the team environment is psychologically safe. Technical Excellence: You help create an engineering culture where quality, reliability, and maintainability are central to how we build software. Together with our Software Architect and other engineers, you support the team in making thoughtful technical decisions and balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability. You’ll help mature the team’s approach to engineering quality, code reviews, testing practices, and operational excellence, enabling the team to consistently ship robust and maintainable features. You are able to identify technical and organisational bottlenecks early, helping the team improve processes, collaboration, and overall effectiveness as we continue to scale. Delivery & Operational Capability: You will establish and maintain a clear, predictable cadence of how we plan, prioritise, and execute - making sure we ship on time, iteratively, and with minimal organisational friction. You’re comfortable with distributed and event-driven systems and embody a true "You build it, you run it" DevOps mindset, taking accountability for the production environment's observability, reliability, and security. You are relentlessly driven by measurable outcomes, ensuring that every decision contributes to a platform that is demonstrably more scalable, stable, and maintainable 📍 Job located in Netherlands 🔎 About you As an experienced Engineering Manager in our Payroll product team, you will be: A Leader, Not Just a Manager: Possessing a proven, quantifiable track record in engineering team leadership, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth, and multicultural environments, you must truly live the value of empowerment over orders and be a compelling, effective storyteller, capable of engaging, aligning, and inspiring a diverse team towards a single vision. A Technical Deep-Diver: You must bring a solid, contemporary background in software engineering, maintaining the ability to act as the ultimate technical mentor to senior Individual Contributors (ICs) on complex architectural decisions. You know precisely when to roll up your sleeves and get hands-on with code, debugging, or design to unblock or guide the team. Operational Mastermind: Proficiency is required in designing, implementing, and operating distributed/event-driven systems and modern cloud environments. You must demand an unyielding quality bar for testing, continuous monitoring (observability), resilience, and maintainability across all services. Pragmatic and User-Obsessed: You maintain a relentless and disciplined focus on delivering concrete business outcomes and solving customer problems, not merely shipping features. Previous experience in fintech, banking, or other highly regulated environments is a significant, value-adding advantage. Champion of Growth: You fundamentally embody and relentlessly advocate for a growth mindset, continuous self-learning, and organisational adaptability within your team and beyond. Must-Have: Substantive and sustained experience with C#/.NET Core Tech Previous experience leading a small team/squad Experience of building, running and developing high-performing teams Strong communication skills and a hands-on approach to task execution CI/CD Experience with Domain-Driven Design Fluency in English Nice-to-Have Skills: Experience with Angular Devops Tooling Customer focused, User focused: UX/UI Why Join Us? Beyond the Standard Role Pioneering a Challenging Domain: We are not building standard B2B SaaS. We are building the future of payroll, a complex, highly regulated, and challenging problem space that fundamentally demands innovative, sophisticated, event-driven, and robust solutions. You will tackle real-world complexity that requires deep technical thinking. Define Our Future: This is an opportunity to be absolutely pivotal in shaping the technology stack, the people strategy, and the enduring team culture from this critical, early growth stage. Your personal and professional impact will be felt daily across the entire business. Location & Collaboration: While we fully support and thrive in a remote-first work environment, our fantastic hub office in Amsterdam offers a magnetic center for key collaboration, culture building, and in-person connection when desired. Equal Opportunity Employer We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law. 💚 Our recruitment process 1️⃣ TA Screening Call: A 30' first call with our Talent Acquisition Team to get to know you better and share more about us. 2️⃣ Hiring Manager Introduction Call: A 30' introduction call with the hiring manager to discuss your past experiences and the role we are offering. 3️⃣ In-person Interview: An in-person deep dive at our Amsterdam office which will include meeting team members, and will look to assess your technical, leadership, and business capabilities. A 45' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role. 4️⃣ Case Study: A practical assessment of your experience and abilities. 5️⃣ A Soft Skills Assessment: To see how we can help support your growth at Shine Department Product & Technology Locations Amsterdam