Embat is one of the fastest-growing FinTech scale-ups in Europe. Founded in 2021, we are on a mission to redefine how mid-market and enterprise companies interact with their money. We don't just offer visibility; we provide the financial operating system for the modern era.
From SaaS to Infrastructure — we've moved beyond being a platform to becoming a powerhouse of financial services. We are building EmbatOne, our own banking infrastructure designed to bridge the gap between traditional banking and seamless digital operations. And with TellMe, our proprietary AI financial assistant, we are empowering CFOs and treasury teams to query complex data and get real-time insights through natural language, turning manual reporting into an archaic memory.
The Team: 150+ exceptional individuals working from our hubs in Spain, UK and DACH, united by a culture of high performance and radical ownership.
The Volume: Our transaction engines handle massive, high-volume payment flows for multinationals, ensuring security and resilience in every cent moved.
The Backing: Backed by tier-1 investors like Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders Capital and VentureFriends. We recently secured a €16M Series A to accelerate our global expansion.
We're looking for one senior leader to own our entire Platform & Data vertical (infrastructure, developer experience, reliability, and data) This person will set the vision and strategy, build and coach the team, and stand up the engineering foundation the rest of the company will build on for years.
Platform and data share the same DNA: both are internal products whose customers are our own engineering, product, and business teams, and both win or lose on the same disciplines — standards, self-service, adoption, reliability, and cost. They can't be governed by two conflicting philosophies, which is exactly the risk two separate junior leads would create.
This role requires vision and multi-year strategy across infra, DevEx, reliability, and data — treating each as a product with a roadmap and adoption metrics, not a backlog of tickets; the ability to hire, mentor, and grow the engineers underneath, including future leads; and the cross-team authority to run scorecards, reviews, and escalations that hold other teams accountable. Foundations are far cheaper to build right from the start than to rehabilitate after years of accumulated debt — this is the role that gets it right from day one.
Platform (internal product)
Own our infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and manage partner relationships.
Build shared frameworks, service templates, and pipelines used across engineering.
Own Developer Experience — obsessively optimize PR, deploy, and test-suite times.
Run CI/CD, staging, feature flags, and progressive deploys.
Manage shared tech: databases, queues, caches, and auth.
Own cloud cost visibility and optimization, plus operations and runbooks.
Reliability (built early, not as an afterthought)
Standardize the Four Golden Signals across every service.
Define SLOs and SLAs in measurable terms, not aspirations.
Turn reliability into a quantitative decision through error budgets.
Hold other teams accountable through public scorecards and reviews.
Own incident management, observability, and alerting.
Data Platform (talks to engineers)
Build our unified stack: warehouse/lake, ingestion, orchestration, and dbt.
Set modeling standards — naming, schemas, versioning.
Own regulation and compliance: GDPR, PII, retention, and data contracts.
Enable self-service access, plus data-quality tests and alerts.
Data Analysis & Ops (talks to product & business)
Build product and business metrics dashboards people actually use.
Lead ad-hoc strategic analysis — cohorts, channels, conversion.
Own experimentation: A/B framework, analysis, and governance.
Drive forecasting and growth modeling.
Objectives:
Month 1: Get a full diagnostic of the current state of infra, DevEx, reliability, and data across the company, and meet every team that depends on this foundation.
Month 3: Ship the first version of the roadmap for platform and data as internal products, with SLOs defined for the most critical services and the first scorecards in place.
Month 6: Have the team hiring plan underway, error budgets driving real prioritization decisions, and the unified data stack in production for at least one core domain.
Month 12: Have built and be coaching a team of leads underneath you, with platform, reliability, and data operating as mature internal products with adoption metrics the rest of the company relies on.
Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or data functions at a senior level, ideally having owned both at once.
A track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers — including developing future leads, not just executing individually.
Hands-on depth in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern CI/CD practices.
Direct experience defining and operationalizing SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets — not just observability tooling.
Experience with modern data stacks (warehouse/lake, ingestion, orchestration, dbt) and data governance (GDPR, PII, data contracts).
Strong cross-team stakeholder management — comfortable holding other teams accountable through scorecards and escalations.
Ability to treat internal tooling as a product: roadmaps, adoption metrics, and NPS, not just tickets.
💥 What comes with working at Embat?
We provide the platform for you to reach your highest professional and personal goals. At Embat, you'll work in an agile, high-performance environment where we ditch bureaucracy in favor of ownership and impact. We give you the space to lead, build, and create real value for our users from day one.
Generous Leave: 23 paid vacation days + your birthday off + public holidays.
Tenure Rewards: Earn +1 extra vacation day for every year at Embat (up to 3).
True Flexibility: A hybrid model (40% remote) with flexible working hours.
Wellhub (Gympass): Corporate access to thousands of gyms, wellness studios, and mindfulness apps at 30% to 60% off.
Private Health Insurance (Sanitas): Access top-tier health coverage through our tax-free Flexible Compensation scheme.
Co-funded Learning Budget: Up to €1,000/year for your professional growth (50/50 match with Embat, 100% tax-free!).
Continuous Growth: Continuous finance & product training, and twice-yearly career reviews.
Flexible Compensation via Payflow: Optimize your net salary with tax-free benefits including Restaurant, Transport, and Kindergarten vouchers.
Tech of your choice: High-end hardware and tools to do your best work.
Great Vibes: Regular team buildings and a highly collaborative, energetic culture
