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Head of Engineering

You will lead engineering delivery across architecture, quality, velocity, and reliability while scaling the team from 8 to approximately 30 engineers. You will hire and onboard engineers, design the organization and processes, establish AI-enabled workflows, remain hands-on with code and architecture, and work with the founders on technical, infrastructure, product, and regulatory decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own engineering delivery across architecture, quality, velocity, and reliability
  • Triple the engineering team within a year
  • Source, close, and onboard top-tier engineers
  • Design team structure, ownership models, incident management, and security and compliance processes
  • Set AI tooling, workflows, and engineering standards
  • Write code, review pull requests, make architecture decisions, and unblock the team
  • Work with founders on technical strategy, build-versus-buy decisions, and infrastructure and regulatory choices

Requirements

  • Track record leading a team of 20 or more top-tier engineers
  • Experience at an A+ startup or scale-up during rapid growth
  • Practical AI-first approach to engineering processes, delivery, and organizational vision
  • Hands-on coding, pull request review, and architecture experience
  • Product-oriented mindset
  • Exceptional hiring ability
  • Fintech or regulated-domain experience is desirable
  • Experience with financial infrastructure at scale is desirable
  • Familiarity with Paris or London engineering talent markets is desirable

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Remote work up to 2 days per week and one full remote week per month
  • Health insurance 100% covered by Spiko
  • Monthly budget for perks
  • 50% of public transport pass covered or Forfait Mobilités Durables
  • Referral bonus
  • Regular afterworks and biannual offsites
  • Latest-generation laptops and industry-leading software

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