Head of Engineering leading a high-performing engineering organization at a fintech company providing capital to SMEs. Overseeing system design, technical direction, and AI tooling adoption.
Responsibilities
Lead Engineering Strategy & Team Build and develop a high-performing engineering organisation of 15+ engineers and engineering managers. Strengthen the culture, processes, and communication discipline that enable autonomous, high-quality delivery across distributed EU/UK/US timezones. You'll own engineering career frameworks, manager development, and the hiring bar.
Own Technical Architecture Partner with the CTO to set and enforce technical direction across the full platform stack. Lead architecture reviews, own governance frameworks, and make consequential build/buy/integrate decisions, particularly as we modernise underwriting automation and onboard new marketplace data partners. You'll be the person who identifies structural fragility before it becomes operational risk.
Drive AI-Powered Productivity Lead the organisation's adoption of AI tooling across the full development lifecycle: code generation, testing, documentation, and incident response. Set expectations, track impact, and make high-leverage AI usage a team norm rather than an individual habit. You'll have a credible, hands-on point of view here, not a delegated one.
Enforce Engineering Discipline Own delivery cadences, planning hygiene, cross-squad coordination, and accountability structures. Build the processes that keep a fast-moving team aligned without bureaucracy. Establish and maintain clear ownership boundaries across squads to prevent fragmentation and information silos.
Enable Cross-functional Impact Partner with Risk, Product, and Operations to ensure engineering output translates directly into business outcomes: faster credit decisions, higher automation rates, and new partner integrations. Assess the cost and feasibility of new technical initiatives and communicate tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
10+ years in engineering roles, with at least 3 leading engineering managers in high-growth environments
Proven track record delivering complex, distributed systems in production; fintech, marketplace, or other data-intensive domains strongly preferred
Deep fluency with GCP, Kubernetes, BigQuery, and event-driven architectures; you can hold your own in a system design review with a senior engineer
Strong understanding of API integrations, automated data pipelines, and the infrastructure tradeoffs that matter at scale
Active, hands-on user of AI development tooling with demonstrated experience scaling adoption across a team
Ability to balance immediate delivery pressure with long-term architectural health and communicate that balance clearly upward
Commercial acumen to assess the engineering cost of new initiatives against their business value
Experience operating in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments is a strong plus
Low tolerance for ambiguous ownership, process theatre, and information silos; you build systems that eliminate them.
Benefits
Unlimited holiday: we believe that well-rested and happy people make the best employees
Competitive compensation plan
MacBook
Personal growth fund: Raise your game from great to spectacular
Monthly recognition and awards: Celebrate wins big and small
The opportunity to make a big impact every day on the lives of European and US entrepreneurs.
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