Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering, Hybrid - LondonHead of Engineering, required to drive technical excellence within our Client's engineering function.  This senior leadership role involves overseeing technology objectives, strategy, goals, and roadmap. You'll collaborate with Product to drive innovation and create exceptional customer experiences.Key responsibilities:

• Define and deliver the engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with product vision, commercial goals, and user needs.
• Lead and scale a high-performing backend engineering team across multiple squads, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture rooted in technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own the architecture, development, and operational health of mission-critical systems.
• Drive integration with a wide ecosystem of third-party providers.
• Support and evolve the Group’s data strategy.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to meet regulatory and certification standards (e.g., PCI DSS, TISAX, ISO 27001), and embed security into development workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Partner Operations, and Business Development.
• Take ownership of growth strategy and team development, including hiring, budgeting, and identifying future skills, structures, and potential acquisitions.
• Promote agile, sustainable software development practices

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience in software engineering.
• Extensive experience managing senior engineering leaders and geographically distributed teams across multiple platforms. 
• Strong background in delivering and scaling B2B2C or partner-integrated platforms, combining a user-centric and data-driven mindset.
• Experience in designing and operating transactional systems, including session management and payment systems.
• Demonstrated success in delivering systems in regulated environments
• Advanced knowledge of cloud-native engineering (preferably AWS), microservice architecture, container orchestration, and scalable infrastructure.
• Fluent in agile methodologies.
• Experience managing vendor and outsourcing relationships at both strategic and operational levels.

London (Hybrid working applies)