Director, Engineering

Join the fintech revolution with Mambu, the leading SaaS cloud banking platform. We're on a mission to make banking better for a billion people. Explore exciting career opportunities and help shape the future of financial services. Learn more here.

About the team
You will be working close to the Financial services team,leading a line of lending products, part of Mambu SaaS banking platform core. As Mambu rapidly expands into different regions all over the world, we are keeping pace and introducing new features for customers. We also have scaling and performance tasks to handle and targets to reach thousands of concurrent transactions per second to/from deposit accounts for millions of active customers.

Our vision is to empower people everywhere to create remarkable (daily) banking experiences for anyone beyond the predictable future. We do this by providing a SaaS banking platform that is open, supports rapid composability and does so reliably while constantly evolving.

• Set a clear mission, principles, KPIs, and roadmap for the Lending product area, fully aligned with tribe objectives.
• Partner with product, architecture, and operations to deliver features that meet customer, regulatory, and performance needs.
• Embed tech debt reduction as a strategic priority, ensuring the platform evolves with lower maintenance overhead and higher adaptability.
• Champion AI-augmented development approaches—such as AI-assisted coding, test generation, and documentation—to increase throughput, shorten cycle times, and improve quality.
• Drive adoption of strong engineering practices: pair programming, test-driven development, CI/CD optimisations, automated quality gates, and peer reviews.
• Build a high-autonomy, high-alignment culture with streamlined decision-making and effective cross-team collaboration.
• Ensure operational readiness, cost efficiency, performance, scalability, and compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
• Represent Lending engineering in strategic discussions with customers, executives, and other stakeholders.

• 10+ years building and operating SaaS, cloud-native, API-driven platforms; ideally in banking, fintech, or other regulated sectors.
• 5+ years of hands-on Java engineering and cloud technologies before moving into senior leadership roles.
• Proven ability to scale distributed systems with high performance, resilience, and cost control.
• Demonstrated success in addressing technical debt while maintaining or increasing delivery velocity.
• Experience applying AI tools and data-driven engineering metrics to improve productivity and code quality.
• Strong leadership skills—trusted by teams and stakeholders to drive change and deliver results.
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage confidently with executives, customers, and global teams.
• Comfortable leading in a remote-first, multi-time-zone environment.

Join us to shape the future of banking, where your professional growth is equally as valued as your personal well-being. 

• Competitive Base Salary

• Company Equity for All

• Learning and Development Opportunities

• Hybrid/Remote Working (Location Dependant)

• 30 Day Working Abroad 

• 4 week Paid Sabbatical after 5 Years Service

• Additional Benefits based on location

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As part of the recruitment (or HR onboarding) process, you will be required to obtain authorized criminal background and credit screening results, as well as be queried against a sanctions/anti-money-laundering/counter terrorism financing/politically exposed persons screening service and your employment is conditional upon approval of these results.

At Mambu, we encourage all interested candidates to apply, even if they don't meet every listed qualification, as we value diversity and recognize that experience doesn't always perfectly align with job descriptions. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for applicants with disabilities; if you need assistance during the application process, please contact talent.acquisition@mambu.com.

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