Head of Engineering

Role Overview

• Contribute to and drive the company-wide technology strategy, ensuring the platform and broader business systems are prepared to scale reliably across markets, products, and growing transaction volumes.
• Own the technical strategy across the ecosystem, aligning architecture, infrastructure, and delivery with company goals for reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Guide architectural and solution design decisions across teams, removing technical roadblocks for Engineers, and ensuring robust, future-proof system and software architecture.
• Build, lead, and scale multiple high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors.
• Strengthen team capacity and capability through proactive mentorship, structured career development, succession planning, and rigorous performance management.
• Drive hiring strategy and org design to support near-term and medium-term growth of the engineering organization.
• Establish and continuously improve end-to-end observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks to support high system availability (targeting 99.9999%+ uptime).
• Improve software reliability across the platform by implementing strong operational excellence practices and incident response mechanisms.
• Set and uphold high standards for engineering excellence, including code quality, testing, QA automation, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline maturity.
• Proactively manage and reduce technical debt while leading company-wide initiatives to improve overall codebase health and maintainability.
• Improve methodologies and systems for tracking engineering metrics, system health, team performance, and developer productivity.
• Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as system performance, transaction success rates, infrastructure efficiency, cost optimization, and team velocity.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining performance, reliability, and security standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Business stakeholders to ensure engineering delivery aligns with company priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure systems are secure-by-design, with strong ownership of data privacy, fraud prevention, and regulatory readiness.
• Build and maintain long-term technical and architectural roadmaps to keep the platform ahead of industry and technology trends.
• Foster a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture grounded in accountability, autonomy, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to broader company-wide engineering initiatives across financial services and business tooling (e.g., Payment, lending, savings, deposits, cards, and business management platforms) to elevate the overall engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12-15 years of hands-on software development experience, including 5+ years of successfully leading multiple engineering teams and driving large-scale technical initiatives
• Significant prior experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong track record of designing scalable systems and operating in a software architecture capacity (approximately 60/40 technical and people leadership).
• Strong backend engineering expertise, with practical experience deploying production systems (e.g., using Spring Boot or similar modern backend frameworks); frontend exposure is a plus.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and managing technical debt at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead managers and multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Prior experience managing distributed and remote teams across multiple geographies.
• Strong experience with agile methodologies, sprint planning, and efficient technical resource management.
• Proven track record of mentoring, performance management, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience introducing engineering innovations that materially improve team productivity, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
• Experience in fintech or regulated technology environments is a strong plus, especially in high-scale platforms.
• Exposure to emerging markets or a strong interest in solving problems related to financial inclusion and financial well-being is advantageous.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot

Benefits

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning
• We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation
• You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance,, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits.