Head of Software Engineering
Core
Senior leadership role responsible for the overall health, productivity, and direction of an ~80-person engineering department in a global FinTech trading group.
Role type
Senior leadership IC / Engineering Head
Builds
Online trading platforms and AI-first product development lifecycle
Domain
Financial services / FinTech / Online trading
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering leadership (managing managers), building high-performing engineering organizations, distributed systems architecture, regulated financial services experience, CI/CD and platform engineering, stakeholder management, budget management
Preferred skills
Experience with AI-driven product development, regulatory compliance navigation, vendor management
Technologies
CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, platform engineering
Responsibilities
Lead global department organization and strategy, build and sustain engineering culture, set engineering standards and quality metrics, manage budget and vendors, align with product leadership, represent engineering to regulators and auditors
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management of managers
