Software Team Lead (f/x/m)

spotixx is a Frankfurt-based European FinTech building technology for the regulated financial sector. Founded in 2019, we are a 60+people team with deep, established relationships across the German and wider European banking sector, built on years of fraud investigation and analytics work delivered inside major banks.

We are bootstrapped and set our own strategy and our own policies, without the compromises of chasing investor timelines. The market is moving toward us: European regulators are opening the door to cross-institutional financial crime intelligence, and we are scaling the team rapidly to meet strong inbound demand.

Tasks

We're looking for a Software Team Lead: a strong, hands-on engineer who is moving (or recently moved) into management and wants a small team to lead and grow with. You'll partner closely with our experienced technical lead, who owns the architectural direction of the platform; your remit is people, process, and delivery quality. You will set the engineering standards needed to build software for the regulated financial sector, you will make sure the team holds those standards, and you will lead by example with the code you write yourself.

Your immediate focus is leading delivery of our spotixx platform as it matures through its pilot phase with European banks. The team is small today and expected to grow rapidly over the next 12–24 months as we scale across new consortia, countries, and business lines and your role is expected to grow with it.

This is the start of a management career, not the end of an engineering one. We are looking for a leader in the making. You will stay close to the code for as long as it serves the team, while your remit, the size of the team you lead, and your strategic responsibility broaden over time.

Requirements

Required

· At least 8 years of relevant software development experience, with at least 5 in regulated industries (banking, payments, insurance, healthcare, public sector, defence, or similar).
· A strong, current hands-on engineer. You ship production code today and you are excited to keep doing so. You write code others want to learn from.
· Ready to step into leadership - or recently have. What matters is your attitude, judgement, and soft skills, not the number of years on the management side. You may currently be a senior engineer, tech lead in all-but-name, or in your first formal lead role.
· Strong soft skills for management. You communicate clearly, give and take feedback well, build trust quickly, and get people unblocked. You've shown leadership through influence even before it was your title.
· Deep experience working in heavily process-driven, regulated environments. Banking, payments, insurance, healthcare, public sector, defence, or similar - you understand why the process exists, you don't fight it, and you can set it for others. Familiarity with frameworks such as GDPR, Ba