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’s engineering 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 it didn’t ship.
The first months are hands-on. You’ll carry individual contributor weight alongside your team leads - shipping, reviewing, making calls - while you learn 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 rem ove it - you don’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 - real product 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 the organisation 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 - and you’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, 3 remote 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
Screening - 30 min call. How you’ve led engineering and what you’re looking for next.
Meet the CTO - 60 min. How you think about scaling engineering, growing people, and delivering through change.
Leadership deep-dive - 90 min. An organisational scenario from our real situation, with the CTO and one engineering lead. No theatre, no trick questions.
Decision/ offer within 10 days of the final interview.