Engineering Team Lead

At Moss, we help companies spend smarter. We’re a place where aspiring, adaptable quick-thinkers thrive, and we’re set to become the next leading spend management platform in the European FinTech industry.

Our Growth tribe is seeking an Engineering Team Lead (f/m/d). In this role, you will balance leadership and hands-on development, managing both team dynamics and technical challenges to achieve the company’s product goals. You will be responsible for maintaining the quality of software products by ensuring projects are scoped accurately and delivered efficiently. In your people management capacity, you will work to understand and improve the performance of your team, offering regular performance feedback, fostering a motivating work environment, and guiding professional development. 

Your responsibilities

Here are some of the things you’ll be responsible for and doing day to day:

• Backend Development: Lead the development of the application, ensuring it aligns with the product requirements and meets performance and usability standards. Proactively provide regular updates on work progress, achievements and challenges to product managers (PMs) and designers.

• Team Management: Manage a team of backend and frontend engineers, including task delegation, performance reviews, and career development. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, encouraging innovation, continuous learning, and open communication.

• Collaborative Planning: Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and actionable tasks. Prioritise and plan the engineering roadmap, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term technical goals.

• System Architecture & Design: Implement and oversee best practices in testing, continuous integration, and deployment to maintain high code quality and system stability. 

About you

We think you’ll need the following experience and qualifications to succeed in the role: 

• Prior experience leading or managing an engineering team, with a track record of mentoring and developing engineers, fostering a collaborative team environment, and driving team performance.

• Ability to work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define project requirements, set priorities, and ensure alignment between engineering and business goals.

• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot. Deep understanding of API development, microservices architecture, database design, and system integration.

• Strong experience in designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems. Ability to make informed decisions about technology stacks, architecture patterns, and system optimizations.

• You are fluent in English.

In addition, here are the skills and attributes we are looking for:

• Impactful Leader - You run effective 1-1s and performance reviews that provide team members with constructive feedback and comprehensive development plans - this results in employees feeling valued and successful, alongside having solid career progression over time.

• Pragmatic Tech Wizard - You have the theoretical and practical background to engineer our product. You pursue quality and scalability and follow industry and company best practices. You build systems that are easy to maintain and to understand by others.

• Delivery Focused - You understand and focus on what is important to deliver the most impact. This means ruthless prioritisation and saying no to less important things. You are driven to deliver tangible outcomes and you swiftly tackle challenges, and provide clear direction to others.

• Collaborative Communicator - You convey information effectively to a variety of audiences, and you are able to form trustworthy connections that bring people together. No 'one' is as smart as 'all of us' together. Avoid knowledge silos and work to upscale the team

• Product Expert - You understand the underlying domain of your product (e.g., customer workflows, or technicalities such as payments or accounting rules)

Our offer

We believe the greatest benefit we can offer you is the opportunity to develop your skills and progress your career - we’d like to help you on that journey. Here's what else you can expect:

• An attractive compensation package, including our company stock option plan

• An annual learning budget of 600 euros

• Access to our mental health and wellbeing offering, including 1-on-1 coaching sessions

• An Urban Sports Club membership

• 20 days of work from abroad

About Moss

Moss is a SaaS scale-up business founded in Berlin. In the last years, we have built a passionate team of circa 250 people from 40+ nationalities in 6 offices across Europe.

To date, we help over 3000+ businesses in Germany, Netherlands and the UK to spend smarter. Our leading spend management solution encompasses corporate cards, invoice management, employee cash reimbursements and controlling modules that help finance teams save thousands of hours in manual data processing and gain complete control while enabling their teams.

Moss has raised a total of €180 million in funding and is backed by renowned tech investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Global Founders Capital, Cherry Ventures and A-Star.