Engineering Manager

SAVR is a fast-growing Swedish fintech company on a mission to reinvent investing. We empower investors with a platform that offers lower fees, greater transparency, and a radically improved experience.

We’re not just building another investment service — we’re reimagining how financial products should work for people, not just institutions. As part of our ambitious, innovative and curious team, you’ll help shape the future of investing.

The Role

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll combine hands-on software development with people leadership. You’ll be part of a cross-functional delivery team, contributing as a senior engineer while supporting the growth, performance, and wellbeing of the engineers around you.

The majority of your tasks will be dedicated to engineering, building features, solving problems and contributing to product development. Alongside this, you’ll have direct people responsibility for typically 5–6 engineers creating a high-trust environment where people take ownership of their work and grow their skills.

You’ll report to our VP Engineering and work closely with product managers and tech leads. Together, you’ll connect product priorities, technical expertise and people management to create meaningful business impact.

Your Mission

• Build reliable, maintainable software that improves the investing experience for our customers.

• Take ownership of features and technical initiatives, from understanding the problem to rollout and follow-up.

• Support and develop your direct reports through clear expectations, regular feedback, and meaningful career conversations.

• Coach engineers to strengthen their ownership, collaboration, delivery, and product understanding.

• Contribute to a healthy, high-trust environment where people feel comfortable sharing ideas, asking questions and learning from each other.

• Promote good engineering practices, constructive feedback, and continuous learning.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Co-own backlog, scope and planning with the Product Manager.

• Contribute to the codebase through feature development, bug fixes, and technical improvements.

• Lead feedback conversations, performance reviews, and growth plans.

• Hold regular one-to-ones and follow up on your reports’ work, development, and wellbeing.

• Coordinate work with suppliers/partners and manage integrations.

• Oversee access management, compliance, and KPI/observability work.

• Help onboard new colleagues, giving them the context and support they need to succees

• Help identify competence gaps and key-person dependencies, and support actions to address them.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You…

• Have a strong background in software engineering and current hands-on experience building and maintaining production systems at a senior level.

• Want software development to remain a substantial part of your everyday work.

• Have experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers with readiness to take direct responsibility for their performance and growth.

• Are comfortable setting clear expectations, giving constructive feedback, and having difficult conversations with empathy.

• Take ownership and connect your work to customer and business needs.

• Collaborate well across engineering and product, bringing curiosity and sound judgement to shared decisions.

• Care deeply about reliable systems, engineering quality, and safe delivery.

• Communicate clearly in English.

• Have the right to work in Sweden

Our Cultural DNA

At SAVR, we’re:

🧠 Open-minded – we embrace new ideas, diverse perspectives, and continuous learning

🚀 Bold – we take smart risks, move fast, and aren’t afraid to fail forward

🤝 Honest – we value transparency, feedback, and doing the right thing

We’re a startup, so things can be a little messy — and that’s part of the thrill. If you thrive in building as a team and handling uncertainty, you will fit right in.

What’s In It for You

You’ll join a product- and design-driven company where your work has real impact. We keep things lean, move fast, and care about the experience we deliver — for customers and for each other.

This is an opportunity to stay hands-on with technology while growing as a leader and helping others develop.

Here’s what we offer:

💻 Top-tier work gear

💰 Competitive salary

🏃‍♀️ Generous wellness allowance

🤒 Insurance package

🌱 Occupational pension and long-term savings support

🏢 Office-first approach to foster collaboration and quick decision-making — with flexibility when you need it (4+1)

🥗 Stocked pantry, plus regular social gatherings and wellness activities to keep energy and culture high

Our Commitment to Diversity

SAVR is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We believe diverse teams build better products and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Ready to Join Us?

We’d love to hear from you. Apply now or reach out with any questions — and let’s build something meaningful together.