Head of Engineering

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Requirements:

• Experience leading engineering teams of varying sizes, preferably in B2B fintech or high-growth technology settings.
• A leadership style that empowers, nurtures, and motivates teams.
• Proven ability to balance feature delivery with technical sustainability, creating space for long-term improvements.
• Experience scaling teams and fostering an inclusive culture.
• A collaborative mindset, working across teams to align technology with business goals.
• Familiarity with AWS, continuous delivery, and Lambda microservices is beneficial but not required.
• A supportive leadership approach, focusing on people development, team well-being, and operational excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, engaging with senior and junior engineers, managers, leads, and other internal team stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective collaboration.
• Comfortable working remotely, with demonstrable experience leading remote or offshore teams effectively. This requires adapting leadership strategies beyond traditional agile playbooks to suit distributed teams.

Responsibilities:

• Support and guide four engineering squads, fostering collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.
• Shape an engineering culture that prioritises long-term sustainability alongside innovation.
• Partner with product teams to co-create a roadmap that balances business needs and technical improvements.
• Oversee team processes, ensuring a positive and efficient working environment.
• Work closely with the CTO, staff engineers, principal engineers, and engineering managers to support and drive the engineering vision.
• Mentor and develop engineering managers, helping them grow in their roles and enhancing their leadership capabilities.
• Inspire cultural transformation by encouraging open communication and continuous learning.
• Be excited by working in a metric-led environment, taking accountability for improving performance against key metrics such as cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, staff engagement, and feature delivery rate, while also refining measurement approaches and methodologies.