Head of Engineering

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. Lead the platform and organizational transformation with the current team .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeRemote • United KingdomLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building financial systems and strong data architecture, while leading organizational transformation and fostering collaboration between engineering and business teams. Proven ability to manage infrastructure and architecture, ensuring code quality and effective communication with stakeholders.

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Financial Systems ExperienceData Architecture BackgroundInfrastructure ManagementCollaborative Operating StyleTeam Transformation Experience

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Hard Skills

Financial SystemsData ArchitectureInfrastructure ManagementCode Quality AssuranceDouble-Entry AccountingReconciliationPayment GatewaysAutomated QAEngineering CollaborationTechnical Leadership

Soft Skills

Business-Oriented ThinkingEffective CommunicationCollaborative StyleTransparencyDecision-Making

Industry Keywords

Financial SystemsPaymentsAccountingStakeholder EngagementOrganizational Transformation

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the platform and organizational transformation with the current team
Own infrastructure, architecture, and vendors
Replace the traditional product-manager-to-engineer handoff and test integrated engineering/product collaboration
Enable engineers to work directly with business and domain experts
Move code writing to LLMs with automated QA, beginning with lower-risk areas and later reaching critical financial components
Hire engineers who communicate with stakeholders and ask questions; may bring in 1–2 people sharing the vision
Focus on internal efficiency rather than setting an independent product or market vision
Months 1–3: bring customer, financial, and manual data flows into one clear perimeter
Months 4–6: build an agentic harness enabling non-engineering teams to prompt agents, create tools, and run workflows
Work directly with founders and report to the CEO

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience building financial systems such as ledgers, reconciliation, processing, gateways, or double-entry accounting
Strong data architecture background
Ability to hold the full technical picture across infrastructure, architecture, and vendors
Senior engineer with proven results
Knowledge that code quality and review still matter, with readiness to change how work gets done
Business-oriented thinking and communication
Mature, collaborative, transparent operating style; willing to make bold calls carefully
Payments or acquiring background is not required; any financial systems experience works
Nice to have: rebuilt or transformed a team before
Nice to have: based in London

Benefits

Comp & perks

Year 1 is fixed pay
From year 2, shadow equity tied to P&L performance, with a path to real equity; details to be agreed
Direct work with the founders, reporting to the CEO
A team of about 15 engineers to inherit and reshape
AI-native setup where non-engineers build their own tools