VP Engineering, ERP

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.

Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.

Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

👀 The ERP Tribe team at Shine

The VP of Engineering, ERP Tribe reports to the Senior VP of Product & Tech and is responsible for leading and developing the engineering function within the ERP Tribe. The role ensures that the Tribe's technology organisation, systems and delivery practices support the Company's strategic, product and regulatory objectives.

The VP owns the Tribe's engineering outcomes, governance and talent

The VP is accountable for building the organisation, standards and conditions that let the right technical calls get made, resourced and delivered.

Your role as a VP of Engineering

• Providing leadership, direction and coaching to the ERP Tribe engineering team, fostering trust, accountability and effective collaboration.

• Defining and implementing an appropriate engineering organisation structure, operating model and resource plan for the Tribe.

• Improving the predictability, transparency and quality of software delivery, including project communication and technical documentation.

• Assessing and strengthening engineering operations, including incident management, monitoring, alerting, reliability, security and technical risk management.

• Building effective working relationships with Product, Compliance, Risk, Security and other relevant stakeholders.

• Ensuring engineering decisions and practices appropriately reflect the Company's ERP, regulatory and risk-management requirements.

• Contributing to the Company's global engineering strategy and advising senior leadership on technology priorities, investment and organisational development.

• Supporting the recruitment, retention and development of a high-performing engineering organisation.

• Driving the adoption of AI-augmented engineering practices across the Tribe — setting standards for AI-assisted development, code quality and review, and ensuring AI usage is safe, auditable and appropriate for a regulated ERP environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

📍 Job located in Portugal, Porto or France, Paris → with possibility of two remote working days per week

About you

• 10+ years in software engineering with progressive leadership experience, including managing managers/Directors at scale.

• Proven track record of AI-augmented engineering: hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and agentic tools in a production setting, and the judgment to set governance, quality bars and guardrails for their use — not just individual usage.

• Genuine appetite for AI as a lever for engineering productivity and delivery quality; expected to actively shape how the Tribe adopts AI, not merely permit it.

• Experience in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment (banking, ERP, fintech) is a strong plus.

• Comfortable operating at both strategic and technical-literacy level: able to challenge a Principal Engineer's reasoning without doing their job.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.