Head of Engineering, Rewards

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy, architecture, and comprehensive roadmap for the Rewards Platform.

• Enhance the performance, reliability, and features of the current cashback product.

• Transform cashback into a more extensive rewards, retention, engagement, and personalization platform.

• Develop and expand the engineering organization, which includes structuring product units and recruiting engineers and Engineering Managers.

• Foster a culture of experimentation through A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measuring customer behavior.

• Collaborate with Growth, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to translate acquisition and retention goals into actionable initiatives.

• Manage the customer-facing rewards experience across both mobile and web platforms.

• Establish architectural standards, engineering processes, quality metrics, and practices to ensure engineering health.

• Build a platform capable of serving customers in multiple geographical regions.

• Define metrics and OKRs specific to rewards, holding the team accountable for achieving them.

• Functionally report to the Group CTO while also having a dual reporting line to the Product leader for Rewards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in direct-to-consumer product engineering at scale.

• Strong expertise in front-end and mobile engineering.

• Practical experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and measurement frameworks.

• A minimum of 5 years managing managers.

• Over 10 years of overall software engineering experience.

• At least 5 years of experience leading engineering teams through phases of growth.

• Proven hands-on technical leadership along with significant hands-on engineering involvement.

• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot backend environments.

• Experience in building and scaling an engineering organization from a small foundation.

• Skilled in hiring and developing Engineering Managers.

• Strong collaborative skills with growth, marketing, and sales stakeholders.

• Experience in rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalization, or growth platforms is a plus, though not mandatory.

• Knowledge of fintech or payments is advantageous but not a requirement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Complete autonomy as the CTO of your domain.

• Direct impact on retention for a user base of approximately 23 million.

• Purpose-driven work that broadens access to financial services.

• An opportunity to define and develop a rewards platform from an exceptional blank slate.

• Commitment to an equal opportunity and inclusive work environment.