Engineering Manager - Platform Team (m/f/d)

at  RatePAY GmbH

YOUR MISSION

Ratepay is a dynamic and innovative fintech company dedicated to revolutionizing payment solutions in the online retail sector. We empower e-commerce businesses with flexible and secure payment options, allowing them to optimize their revenue streams.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with a strong background in AWS and CI/CD practices, including expertise in various CI/CD tools. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team of 8-10 platform engineers driving an exciting company wide migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud and help to develop and maintain the next generation of Cloud Infrastructure.

• Lead and manage a team of Platform engineers, supervising day-to-day technical tasks, as well as mentoring/growing skills within your team.
• Collaborating with the department head to plan OKRs and ensure the successful execution and delivery of the planned outcomes.
• Oversee the migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud, ensuring best practices, security, and scalability throughout the process.
• Act as a key stakeholder in cloud-related projects, addressing challenges, and ensuring optimal cloud performance and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer and Product Manager, acting as a sparring partner to align on technical and product strategies.
• Ensure a high-performance culture within the team, driving productivity, innovation, and team well-being.

ABOUT US

We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custom-made state-of-the-art payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one white-label Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and we’re constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous, committed and decisive, warm-hearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AI-based risk management. With us, you can integrate direct debit, instalments and prepayment. In other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europe’s fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings, Ebay and About You and hundreds more.

• Lead and manage a team of Platform engineers, supervising day-to-day technical tasks, as well as mentoring/growing skills within your team.
• Collaborating with the department head to plan OKRs and ensure the successful execution and delivery of the planned outcomes.
• Oversee the migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud, ensuring best practices, security, and scalability throughout the process.
• Act as a key stakeholder in cloud-related projects, addressing challenges, and ensuring optimal cloud performance and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer and Product Manager, acting as a sparring partner to align on technical and product strategies.
• Ensure a high-performance culture within the team, driving productivity, innovation, and team well-being