Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform.

• Lead initiatives focused on developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and team adoption.

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

• Functionally guide POS engineers integrated within Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans teams.

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

• Direct architecture efforts for the support, onboarding, governance, and integration of multiple POS device types.

• Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team on the introduction of new devices.

• Expand and develop the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and organizational structuring.

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

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

• Engage in technical, system design, architectural leadership, and CTO interviews throughout 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 building software on Point-of-Sale terminal devices at the application level.

• Strong understanding of EMV standards.

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

• Extensive Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java.

• Background in developing internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tools, or foundational frameworks.

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

• Proven experience in building or advancing platform engineering functions.

• Capability to scale engineering teams and establish organizational leadership structures.

• Familiarity with working at a company that processes high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment.

• Knowledge of terminal management systems and device observability tools is a plus.

• Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is advantageous.

• Experience collaborating directly with OEM vendors is a bonus.

• Exposure to C or C++ is beneficial.

• Background in multinational or large VC-backed companies is preferred.

• Experience in the fintech sector is strongly favored.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pension.

• Health insurance.

• Annual bonus.

• Focused environment on learning and development.

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

• Culture centered on well-being.

• Inclusive workplace.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.