Engineering Manager at Taxfix.com

OUR STORY: Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence. Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix and Steuerbot, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016. YOUR CHALLENGE: The Monetization team owns the full subscription lifecycle, payment processing, invoicing, and entitlements infrastructure that underpins Taxfix's revenue. When a customer pays, upgrades, renews, or gets access to a premium feature, that's us. You will lead a cross-functional engineering team that builds and operates these platform capabilities that directly impact conversion, retention, and revenue - while meeting high bars for correctness, auditability, security, and customer trust. LEAD AND GROW THE TEAM - Hire, coach, and develop software engineers — run meaningful 1:1s, set development goals, and actively manage performance - Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement - Be a multiplier leader who makes others faster through clear, direct communication, coaching, and consistently raising the bar on engineering craft and collaboration - Champion AI adoption within the team — encourage AI-assisted workflows and continuously raise the bar on how AI is used to improve productivity OWN DELIVERY AND EXECUTION - Own the team’s outcomes and delivery cadence: define and align on a north-star metric, run lean planning/prioritization, unblock quickly, and drive continuous improvement - Lead end-to-end delivery of projects across the monetization stack (e.g., checkout, subscription flows, upgrades/downgrades, dunning, invoicing signals, entitlements) - Balance product roadmap work with operational reliability work (incidents, bugs, performance, tech debt) DRIVE TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE - Drive architecture and design decisions that support scalability, reliability, and compliance (auditability, revenue recognition constraints, GDPR) - Bring strong platform fundamentals and pragmatic decision-making - Ensure strong engineering standards: code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD, observability, and documentation - Coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and incident retrospectives - Partner with platform/security and architecture counterparts to meet org-wide standards and reduce systemic risk PARTNER ACROSS THE BUSINESS - Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data/Analytics to shape strategy, define success metrics, and make pragmatic scope decisions - Collaborate with Finance/Accounting on topics like revenue recognition, refunds, and operational controls - Collaborate with Customer Support/Operations to reduce manual work and improve self-serve capabilities YOUR PROFILE: MUST-HAVE - Experience leading and coaching a software engineering team (ideally in a product environment) - Strong technical foundation (backend and/or distributed systems) and confidence in system design - Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives and handling ambiguity - Experience improving engineering practices: reliability, testing, metrics, and delivery processes - Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Experience using AI assistants in real work; ability to critically evaluate AI output (know when to trust, edit, or reject); builds AI-assisted workflows for self and team - Can articulate the north-star metric being moved and connect team work to business outcomes - Raises blockers early, shares context proactively, gives and receives feedback directly NICE-TO-HAVE - Experience in fintech, payments, subscriptions, billing, or other regulated domains - Privacy & security awareness in high-trust products (GDPR / financial data handling) - Comfort operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly: ships early, learns from signal, improves continuously WHY TAXFIX?  - A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals. - Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga. - A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like. - Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create. - 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours. - A generous learning budget to support your personal and professional development and guidance from our internal L&D experts. - Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip. - Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible. - Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions. - Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office. Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix [Upgrade to PRO to see link] on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture.   At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves. Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously.