Engineering Manager

About

Swan is Europe’s embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies—like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca. Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They’re on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows, there’s still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.

It’s a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn’t just record financial activity — it should run it.

To learn more about us : About Swan ; Our story .

Job description

Swan is looking for an Engineering Manager to join is tech team of 70+ people.

The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan. This team includes Software developers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, DevOps, QA, and Security.

We build with intent, focusing on solving real problems that matter. In a regulated environment, compliance, security, and resilience are at our core. We value ownership, open collaboration, and a shared vocabulary to keep complexity manageable. Simplicity is key, clean, maintainable code wins over clever tricks. We ship fast, learn continuously, and always strive for excellence. 💡

The role is to lead the Merchant and Account Funding. The Merchant and Account Funding team sits at the heart of Swan's financial ecosystem, enabling the seamless movement of funds between various entities within our banking-as-a-service platform. Our scope focuses particularly on merchant features, from the onboarding of merchant partners to the management of specific payment features: SEPA direct debit transfers, card acquiring, and payment by checks. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to build foundational components that enable Swan's customers to create innovative financial products and services, directly contributing to our mission of making banking accessible to everyone.

✨ Your responsibilities:

Team Management:

• Manage and lead a team of 4-8 Software Engineers , providing guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members.
• Drive people management initiatives, including hiring, performance evaluation, career development, and employee retention.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Technical Leadership:

• Be accountable for your team's projects, make technical decisions, and solve complex challenges in a demanding technical environment with a reactive architecture.
• Partner with product managers to build and refine the team’s roadmap.
• Ensure your team follows company technical standards and architectural patterns effectively.
• Monitor system performance in your domain to maintain the quality of service despite rapidly growing loads.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards and ensure proper implementation of automated testing.

Delivery:

• Be responsible for successful roadmap execution, providing clear visibility and reporting for tracking progress at scale.
• Lead cross-team and cross-domain collaborations, ensuring effective communication among all stakeholders.
• Maintain operational excellence in production and manage incident responses effectively.

✨ Our technical environment:

Programming Languages: TypeScript ( NestJS , fp-ts ) ; Scala & Kotlin

Databases: PostgreSQL

Data Streaming: Kafka ; GraphQL

Containerization & Cloud Platforms: Kubernetes ; AWS

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have at least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer and at least 2 years of experience as a manager.
• You have strong leadership and team management skills
• You have worked in complex environments involving product, QA, security, and platform teams.
• Proficiency in software development and a solid understanding of system architecture.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with coding standards, security protocols, and QA/testing processes.
• You are familiar with automated testing and continuous integration.
• You have experience with distributed systems or microservices architecture.
• You have worked with GraphQL and Kafka.
• You are interested in functional programming.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to align engineering goals with business priorities.
• Fluent in English
• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term : We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence : We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human : We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture .

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• Hiring Manager interview
• Design System interview
• VP Engineering interview
• HR interview - to evaluate managerial skills