Hybrid Engineering Director

at Trustly

• Job title: Engineering Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Stockholm, Sweden

About the role

• Engineering Director overseeing 5 to 7 teams in high-volume payment systems at Trustly. Driving modernization and architectural transformations while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Co-own the domain’s mission, strategy, and roadmap with your Product counterpart, shaping both the “what” and the “how” as a leadership duo.
• Develop a deep understanding of the business and customer needs, forming your own perspective and constructively challenging product direction.
• Lead technical strategy and architectural transformation, including major initiatives (e.g., monolith to microservices), defining trade-offs, team boundaries, and ownership models with your domain architect.
• Drive delivery and operational excellence, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and mature incident response practices.
• Manage and develop a multi-team engineering organization, coaching Engineering Managers, building empowered teams, and shaping structure for high performance.
• Champion engineering best practices, translating business problems into effective solutions and ensuring alignment with Trustly’s standards, processes, and ways of working.

Requirements

• Proven manager of managers, leading multiple teams in high-transaction, high-availability environments.
• Strong product instinct, experienced in product-led organizations and able to shape strategy, challenge roadmaps, and influence direction with business arguments.
• Track record of setting technical strategy and driving architectural transformation across teams, including complex system migrations.
• Experience building and operating mission-critical systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Built empowered product teams where engineers own problems and outcomes.
• Clear, direct leader with strong coaching skills, balancing technical leadership, people management, and delivery.

Benefits

• 20 to 30 days of holiday to support a healthy work-life balance
• Monthly team outing allowance to enjoy social events with your colleagues
• Parental leave top-up additional support for new parents
• Daily breakfast and on-site perks to make your workday smoother
• Well being support our health allowance covers gym memberships, massages, and much more to help you feel your best
• PLUS additional benefits designed to enhance your work-life experience!