Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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

📋 Description

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

• Develop and oversee developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and the adoption of squads throughout the organization.

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

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

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

• Drive the architecture to support multiple POS device types and determine the onboarding, governance, and integration procedures for these devices.

• Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team to explore new device types.

• Build and expand the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and structuring for international growth.

• Translate platform decisions into business impacts in partnership with Product, Payments, and Business leadership.

• Establish and enhance engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and metrics for developer productivity.

• Engage in recruitment, technical, system design, architectural leadership, and CTO interviews as part of the hiring process.

⛳️ 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 that operates on Point-of-Sale terminal devices, particularly at the application layer.

• Strong knowledge of EMV standards.

• Familiarity with navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE.

• Profound expertise in Android engineering using Kotlin and Java.

• Proven experience in constructing internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks utilized by other engineering teams.

• Experience in governing or architecting across various POS device types from different hardware manufacturers.

• Background in building or advancing platform engineering functions.

• Demonstrated capability to scale engineering teams effectively.

• Experience in a company that processes high volumes of financial transactions within a regulated environment.

• Prior experience in a fintech setting is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tools is a significant advantage.

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

• Experience collaborating directly with OEM vendors on hardware specifications and integration is an added benefit.

• Exposure to C or C++ is a plus.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pension plan.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Annual bonus opportunity.

• Additional benefits.

• Environment focused on learning and development.

• Knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Training programs.

• Regular internal technical discussions.

• An inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.