Vice President of Engineering

Your Role as VP Engineering - BankingReporting to the Senior VP of Engineering, you'll build and lead the engineering organisation behind the clients banking technology: secure, reliable, and held to the standard expected of a modern financial institution. You'll partner closely with Product, Compliance, Risk and Security so that engineering practice supports product innovation and regulatory obligation at the same time.The Banking Tribe is close to 100 people including Product and Design, spanning core banking, cards, customer lifecycle, fraud and AML and the full customer experience interacting with the banking products.. You'll lead the engineering side of that through a team of engineering managers, and help shape the broader global engineering strategy beyond it.Two things will define your first year. The organisation has grown quickly and delivery predictability has not kept pace: planning, communication and operational maturity all need to catch up with the size of the org. At the same time, Banking is expanding into new markets, so you'll be building for passporting and multi-market operation while the existing business keeps running.What you'll doLead the organisationLead and develop the Banking engineering organisation through your engineering managers, and build the bench beneath them.Design the organisation, operating model and resource plan as the business grows, and hire the people it needs.Set a culture of ownership and accountability where teams are trusted to decide and held to their outcomes.Raise the bar on delivery and operations of our productsMake delivery predictable and transparent: better planning, clearer communication, documentation people actually use.Strengthen engineering operations across incident management, monitoring, observability and alerting, and the reliability that follows from them.Keep technical debt and operational risk as deliberate choices rather than accumulated surprises.Own engineering in a regulated businessPartner with Compliance, Risk and Security so regulatory obligations are designed into how we build, not audited in afterwards.Balance speed against governance, and be the person who can defend where that line sits to a product leader and a regulator alike.Become the technology partner the banking business relies on for its most significant initiatives.Shape what comes nextContribute to Shine's engineering strategy and technology roadmap.Advise senior leadership on engineering priorities, organisational development and where to invest.Partner with Product leadership so engineering execution lands on customer and business outcomes.📍 Location: We are flexible. You can work hybrid from one of our hubs (Barcelona, Madrid, Porto, Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin). Travel bi weekly, roughly 2 days. 3 days in office a weekAbout youWhat you'll needSignificant experience leading a multi team engineering organisation through engineering managers, within a licensed financial institution: a bank, neobank, payments institution, or banking-as-a-service provider.You have owned systems where money moves and correctness is non-negotiable (ledgers, payment rails, reconciliation), under genuine supervisory scrutiny: AML and KYC, fraud, PSD2, audits, direct regulator engagement.A track record of building high-performing teams through coaching and organisational design, and of raising the bar on reliability and delivery practices.Credibility with executive stakeholders, and real partnership with Product, Security, Compliance and Risk. In banking these are not functions you route around.You've led engineering in a cloud-native environment where teams own what they run: CD, TDD, and the engineers who built a service on call for it in production. If your experience sits in a legacy estate, you were the one modernising it.Nice to haveSEPA and EU payment rails, multi-market passporting, or scaling an organisation through a licence application or regulatory expansion.Leading a team through a post-merger integration or large-scale organisational change.