As Head of Engineering at Spendesk, you will lead a multi-disciplinary group of 20–30 engineers, aligning technical direction with company goals. You’ll build and nurture a leadership team, own delivery velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency, and drive AI/tooling and platform strategies. You’ll partner with Product and Design to shape scalable, cross-functional solutions and defend the roadmap in a fast-growing fintech environment. This role offers high-impact leadership across Europe and an opportunity to codify engineering excellence and growth.
Pay / Benefits
Flexible on-site and remote policy
Latest Apple equipment
Moka.care for wellbeing
Office snacks
Health insurance (location-specific)
Gym memberships
Responsibilities
Define multi-quarter tech and organizational strategy aligned with company goals
Drive architectural decisions and platform simplification across your domain
Make build-vs-buy decisions and own AI/tooling strategy with measurable impact
Own area economics: cost-to-serve, infra efficiency, hiring ROI with quarterly plans
Be accountable for delivery across squads, balance priorities, maintain quality
Establish group-level KPIs, SLOs, and operating rhythms
Champion end-to-end observability, sensible on-call, and impactful postmortems
Plan headcount and sequencing to maximise impact with data-backed rationale
Hire, develop, and retain a strong leadership team of EMs/Senior EMs/Staff Engineers
Coach managers through performance conversations and promotions; manage succession
Represent Engineering in company forums, communicate strategy to engineers and executives
Champion diversity and inclusion in hiring, development, and governance
Key requirements
8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope
3+ years managing managers (Team Leads/EMs)
Track record delivering complex, multi-stakeholder SaaS programmes on time and budget
Fintech, payments, or compliance experience is a strong plus
Hands-on experience with distributed systems at scale in production
Comfort with stack: TypeScript, Node, React, AWS; able to read and question code
Strong business acumen: unit economics, ROI, trade-offs
Proven ability to grow managers into better leaders, not just engineers
Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
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