Head of Engineering

As Head of Engineering at Spendesk, you will lead a multi-disciplinary group of 20–30 engineers, aligning technical direction with company goals. You’ll build and nurture a leadership team, own delivery velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency, and drive AI/tooling and platform strategies. You’ll partner with Product and Design to shape scalable, cross-functional solutions and defend the roadmap in a fast-growing fintech environment. This role offers high-impact leadership across Europe and an opportunity to codify engineering excellence and growth.

• Flexible on-site and remote policy
• Latest Apple equipment
• Moka.care for wellbeing
• Office snacks
• Health insurance (location-specific)
• Gym memberships

• Define multi-quarter tech and organizational strategy aligned with company goals
• Drive architectural decisions and platform simplification across your domain
• Make build-vs-buy decisions and own AI/tooling strategy with measurable impact
• Own area economics: cost-to-serve, infra efficiency, hiring ROI with quarterly plans
• Be accountable for delivery across squads, balance priorities, maintain quality
• Establish group-level KPIs, SLOs, and operating rhythms
• Champion end-to-end observability, sensible on-call, and impactful postmortems
• Plan headcount and sequencing to maximise impact with data-backed rationale
• Hire, develop, and retain a strong leadership team of EMs/Senior EMs/Staff Engineers
• Coach managers through performance conversations and promotions; manage succession
• Represent Engineering in company forums, communicate strategy to engineers and executives
• Champion diversity and inclusion in hiring, development, and governance

• 8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope
• 3+ years managing managers (Team Leads/EMs)
• Track record delivering complex, multi-stakeholder SaaS programmes on time and budget
• Fintech, payments, or compliance experience is a strong plus
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems at scale in production
• Comfort with stack: TypeScript, Node, React, AWS; able to read and question code
• Strong business acumen: unit economics, ROI, trade-offs
• Proven ability to grow managers into better leaders, not just engineers
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management

• strategic thinking
• cross-functional influence
• people leadership and coaching
• TypeScript
• Node
• React