Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform as the domain CTO for POS-device software.

• Establish and oversee developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and squad adoption.

• Define and uphold engineering standards across various POS device types and OEM manufacturers.

• Provide functional leadership to POS engineers embedded within Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads.

• Oversee POS observability, which includes monitoring, alerting, and incident-response frameworks.

• Drive the architecture necessary for supporting, onboarding, governing, and integrating multiple POS device types.

• Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team for new device integrations.

• Build and scale the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and organizational structuring.

• Translate platform decisions into business impact in collaboration with Product, Payments, and Business leadership.

• Enhance engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics.

• Engage in various interview stages including recruiter, technical, system-design, architectural leadership, and CTO interviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience.

• At least 6 years of experience leading engineering teams through significant growth phases.

• Direct, hands-on experience in developing software on Point-of-Sale terminal devices at the application layer.

• Strong understanding of EMV standards.

• Experience in navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE.

• Extensive Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java.

• Experience in building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks.

• Proficiency in governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from various hardware manufacturers.

• Experience in building or enhancing platform engineering functions.

• Capability to scale engineering teams and develop organizational leadership layers.

• Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions within a regulated environment.

• A fintech background is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tooling is advantageous.

• Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a significant plus.

• Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specifications and integration is a bonus.

• Exposure to C or C++ is a plus.

• Experience solely at Series A or B stage startups is unlikely to reflect the necessary scale and complexity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pension plan.

• Health insurance.

• Annual bonus.

• Additional benefits.

• Focus on learning and development opportunities.

• Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical discussions.

• A people-first culture that prioritizes the well-being of team members.

• An inclusive environment where all opinions and voices are appreciated.