About the Role
You will lead the engineering organization through its next phase of scale. You will report to the CTO and work closely with leadership across product and operations to turn vision into secure performant and scalable infrastructure. You will shape the technical roadmap scale the engineering team and create a culture of execution autonomy and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in a senior leadership role (e.g. Head of Engineering, Director, or Site Lead)
- Experience leading cross-functional technical teams in a startup or scale-up environment
- Strong technical background in backend development, DevOps, or distributed systems
- Proven success in scaling teams, hiring engineers, and evolving team structure/processes
- Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, CI/CD, containerisation)
- Clear and thoughtful communication: internally and externally
- Experience working in fintech, regulated environments, or high-trust software platforms
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of backend, blockchain, DevOps, and frontend engineers
- Define and drive the engineering roadmap in partnership with the CTO and Product leadership
- Ensure technical quality across systems through code reviews, architecture oversight, and process improvements
- Recruit and retain top engineering talent—building hiring processes and career development frameworks
- Champion a culture of ownership, security, and high standards
- Balance speed and stability—shipping fast while managing risk in a regulated and high-trust environment
- Lead the transition from early-stage to scale-up engineering practices: observability, reliability, automation, security, documentation
- Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions with product, legal, operations, and clients when needed
- Identify and unblock technical bottlenecks to help the team move efficiently
Benefits
- Generous stock options with equity plans that let you share in the company growth
- Private health insurance premium private health insurance scheme UK IRE only
- We offer 24 days annual leave plus public holidays with flexibility for additional time off
- IT and office equipment to support your work including a MacBook displays and accessories
- Salary sacrifice scheme and financial tools to help you with your personal finances covering childcare groceries tech pensions bikes and subscriptions UK only
- A state of the art central office in Belfast or Dundalk
- An annual learning and personal development budget for training exams certifications qualifications or anything else which helps you progress at work and your career
- The opportunity to work in a high growth startup where your contribution matters and shapes an industry
- Exposure to collaborative working and direct knowledge sharing from experts across financial services blockchain and fintech