Head of Engineering Pillar (Fintech)

Location: Riga, Latvia; hybrid flexibility with office collaboration, remote work, and up to three months per year working from another country

Salary: €6,200–€6,800 per month, plus stock options

Company

hirify.global operates an investment platform that makes investing in income-generating assets more accessible, transparent, and simple for people across Europe.

What you will do

• Lead the full people-management lifecycle for 20–30 engineers across backend, frontend, QA, and test automation.
• Build and recompose cross-functional delivery teams and allocate capacity across initiatives.
• Manage hiring for engineering roles, including process design, candidate assessment, calibration, and hiring decisions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and RFCs by challenging assumptions and identifying capacity and delivery risks.
• Provide the CTO with visibility into pillar health, hiring, capacity, and organisational risks.
• Coordinate people-management practices, talent movement, performance calibration, and engineering culture with the peer Head of Engineering Pillar.

Requirements

• Professional software-engineering background with the ability to engage in architecture and system-design discussions.
• Deliberate transition into people management and experience owning hiring, performance reviews, career development, capacity allocation, and difficult conversations.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership or people-management experience, including management of 15+ engineers across multiple teams.
• Ability to work in a role-separated model, partnering strategically with Tech Leads while trusting them with tactical technical decisions.
• Direct, low-formality communication style and good written and verbal English.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, banking, insurance, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
• Experience with pillar or tribe models, organisational restructuring, or manager transitions.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with payments, AML/KYC, licensing, compensation frameworks, levelling, or workforce planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work with office collaboration and the option to work remotely.
• Up to three months per year working from another country.
• Generous vacation policy without a fixed minimum-only allowance.
• Annual €1,200 learning budget.
• Stock options and a well-equipped office with parking, showers, snacks, drinks, a massage chair, and a nap room.
• International team of 200+ people from 17+ countries focused on fairness, inclusion, and open collaboration.