Head of Engineering

Meniga builds financial intelligence for the world's leading banks - 100M+ users, 30+ countries. We're not the brand on the app. We're the layer underneath it - the one that makes the data meaningful, the experience personal, and the bank worth opening.Meniga’s offices are in London, Reykjavik, Warsaw and Cairo.

HEAD OF ENGINEERING  

Financial intelligence for 100M+ users across the world's leading banks

THE WORK 

You run Meniga’sengineering organisation - 27 engineers across five teams, each with real ownership and real clients. You report directly to the CTO. You are accountable end-to-end - from operation and execution to what lands at the client. The outcome reaches production at the bank, or itdidn’t ship. 

The first months are hands-on.You’ll carry individual contributor weight alongside your team leads - shipping, reviewing, making calls - while youlearn the services, the clients, and what the organisation actually needs. 

The context is a real-scale transformation running in parallel with active client delivery at European-scale banks. On-premises licensing to cloud. MSSQL to PostgreSQL at scale. Core product rewritten from the ground up. A fragmented portfolio being standardised and platformised. AI embedded across the entire SDLC — tooling, testing, workflows. This isn’t greenfield. There’s real legacy, and the goal is strangler fig — not a rewrite. The role is for someone who can lead through real constraints, not around them. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• Own engineering delivery end-to-end -from roadmap commitment to what lands in production at the bank. No handoffs, no diffusion of accountability 

• Targets are real commitments -you take them seriously, you find a way, and when something is blocking delivery you remove it - youdon’t escalate it into a slide deck 

• Make the transformation happen -not as a programme manager, not as a coordinator - as someone who understands what needs to happen technically, removes what blocks it, and is accountable for the result 

• Build an engineering organisation that can handle this -regulated clients, on-premises constraints, high-stakes delivery. You hire for that reality, grow people into it, and don’t accept a team that could only survive in easier conditions 

• Partner with CTO, Product, and Commercial -translate business commitments into engineering execution, represent engineering in client escalations and board reviews 

• Embed AI across the SDLC -coding, testing, workflows. Full automation is the goal, not the aspiration 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 

• Run engineering at this scale before - realproduct in production, with clients that hold you to it. You can point to what changed under your leadership 

• End-to-end accountable - you own operation and execution from roadmap to what the client experiences in production. Not “my team delivered their part.” The outcome reaches the client, or it didn’t ship 

• Still technically credible -you don’t need to write the code, but you can read a PR, smell a bad architectural decision, and ask the question that exposes it. Your team leads can’t bullshit you technically, and they know it

• Outcome over activity - you measure theorganisation on what shipped and how it performed - not on how busy it looked 

• Comfortable with commercial reality - you can sit in a client escalation, a board review, and a post-incident retro in the same week and bring the same clarity to each 

• AI-native - you have a real position on how AI changes engineering - tooling, headcount, skill mix - andyou’re already acting on it 

THE STACK 

You don't need to master it, but you need to understand it:

.NET  ·  MSSQL / PostgreSQL  ·  Azure  ·  Kubernetes  ·  Helm  ·  Terraform 

Most systems are on-premises at client sites and actively migrating toward cloud. You’ll make calls in both worlds. 

WHAT YOU'LL GET 

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity:B2B, 28-37k PLN + VAT, + ESOPs 

• Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3remote days
• Private healthcare, fitness, meal & phone allowance 
  

• A seat at the leadership table and a direct line to the CTO 

• The mandate to build the engineering organisation you’d want to join 

• Software that runs inside real banks, used by 100M+ people every day 

HOW WE HIRE 

1. Screening - 30 min call. Howyou’ve led engineering and what you’re looking for next.
   
2. Meet the CTO - 60 min. How you think about scaling engineering, growing people, and delivering through change.
   
3. Leadership deep-dive - 90 min. An organisational scenario from our real situation, with the CTO and one engineering lead. No theatre, no trick questions.
   
4. Decision/ offerwithin10 days of the final interview.