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