Head of Engineering
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom or Paris, Île-de-France, France
Job Summary
Own engineering delivery end to end, including architecture, quality, velocity, and reliability for systems processing hundreds of millions of euros monthly. Triple the team within a year by sourcing, closing, and onboarding top-tier engineers while maintaining an uncompromising talent bar. Design the organization for scale in collaboration with the Product team, covering team structure, ownership models, incident management, and security by design. Make AI a structural advantage by setting tooling, workflows, and standards that multiply engineer output. Stay hands-on by coding, reviewing PRs, making architecture calls, and unblocking the team on hardest problems. Work directly with founders on technical strategy, build vs. buy decisions, and infrastructure choices.
Required Qualifications
- Proven track record leading a team of 20+ top-tier engineers
- Experience at an A+ startup or scale-up, through a phase of rapid growth
- AI-first by conviction and in practice: AI shapes how you run process, delivery, and vision for an engineering org, and you can show it
- Hands-on for real: you still write code, review PRs, and go deep on architecture
- A product-oriented mindset: comfortable leading a team that owns product decisions, with strong opinions on what to build, not just how
- Exceptional hiring ability with a demonstrated high talent bar
- Based in Paris or London, office first
Desired Qualifications
- Fintech background, or experience in another regulated, high-stakes domain (payments, banking infrastructure, trading)
- Experience building and operating financial infrastructure at scale (payments, ledgers, market connectivity)
- Familiarity with the Paris and/or London engineering talent markets
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