Head of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Gibraltar.

📋 Description

• Establishing the position of Head of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO.

• Oversee engineering operations: the standards, practices, team dynamics, and overall delivery.

• Define engineering standards across the organization and manage the comprehensive Software Development Lifecycle from start to finish.

• Accountable for measuring the function's performance on predictable delivery: consistently delivering the agreed scope within the promised timelines, aiming for a 90% success rate.

• Manage the engineering tech-debt roadmap and provide leadership to the Engineering Managers responsible for delivery within each tribe.

• Involved in change management, incident response, observability, and ensuring audit readiness.

• Guarantee that 100% of changes automatically create a regulator-ready audit trail.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, including 3–4 years in an engineering leadership position managing multiple teams or squads, specifically overseeing engineering managers rather than just senior engineers.

• Proven history of ensuring delivery predictability at the function level: you have made commitments on behalf of an engineering organization and established practices to consistently fulfill them without inflating estimates.

• Practical experience in developing and managing engineering practices: defining the SDLC, setting code review standards, overseeing change management, and maintaining effective retro and feedback loops.

• Strong leadership capabilities - you have recruited, mentored, and managed the performance of engineering managers, understanding the distinctions between effective EM execution and situations requiring intervention.

• A well-defined, evidence-based perspective on AI-assisted development throughout the SDLC - identifying where it truly adds value and how to promote genuine adoption as opposed to superficial dashboard usage.

• Comprehensive knowledge of backend distributed systems and the demands of operating them in a regulated, high-stakes environment: including change management discipline, incident response, observability, and audit readiness.

• Data-driven - adept at owning engineering metrics (delivery predictability, cycle time, defect escape rate, blocker aging) and transforming them into prioritized actions rather than mere dashboards that go unheeded.

• Excellent communicator who can effectively engage both technical and non-technical audiences - capable of writing the SDLC definition, presenting the tech-debt roadmap to the CTO, and delivering constructive feedback to an EM with equal clarity.

• Experience in a regulated environment (fintech, banking, payments, or similar) with a genuine understanding of the implications of quality or security failures when customer funds are involved.

🏝️ Benefits

• Excellent work-life balance

• Flexible paid time off plan

• Annual budget for personal learning and development objectives