Engineering Manager

• Serve as the most senior technical leader in the business, reporting directly to the CEO
• Own engineering output end-to-end, from system design and domain architecture to delivery velocity, team culture, and platform decisions
• Scale engineering from 25+ to 100+, including organisation design, hiring bar, career paths, and performance frameworks
• Hire and develop strong engineering leaders
• Set domain boundaries, data modelling standards, and integration patterns across microservices
• Lead design decisions on ledgers, transaction state, reconciliation, and authorisation
• Improve velocity and quality using DORA metrics
• Balance feature work against technical debt
• Co-own the technical roadmap with Product
• Own the technical side of regulatory and licensing requirements across markets, including technology risk, outsourcing and data rules, and PCI-DSS
• Own the Azure platform, cloud cost, data infrastructure, and AI-assisted engineering strategy
• Manage technical relationships with key partners such as issuer processors and core banking providers
• Represent engineering to the board, investors, and regulators

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