Head of Engineering (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid; role locations are Belgium, Portugal, Poland, or Spain. The position header specifies Lisbon, Portugal.

Company

hirify.global is an international technology company focused on digital finance, emerging technologies, complex integrations, and digital asset platforms.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering organisation, own technical strategy, and establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Act as a hands-on architect and technical contributor by designing systems, writing and reviewing code, and unblocking delivery for digital asset and AI initiatives.
• Implement security requirements and audit recommendations across the multi-account AWS organisation in partnership with the Head of Security and security team.
• Own AWS cloud infrastructure and operations, including reliability, cost management, disaster recovery, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Define technical solutions and delivery priorities with Product Managers, Architects, and stakeholders while managing budgets, vendors, cloud expenditure, technical debt, and engineering productivity.
• Hire, onboard, and develop Engineering Managers, Architects, and other engineering talent while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles.
• Hands-on technical depth, including system design, coding or code review, and individual-contributor work alongside the team.
• Experience leading Engineering Managers, Architects, and multiple engineering teams.
• Strong AWS experience covering multi-account organisations, infrastructure as code, networking, identity and access management, and cloud security.
• Experience translating security requirements and audit findings into engineering changes, with strong knowledge of cybersecurity, compliance, risk management, and data protection.
• Production experience in digital assets, including blockchain, DLT, tokenisation, custody, or wallets, or in AI, including machine learning or LLM-based applications; depth in one area with genuine curiosity about the other is sufficient.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, microservices, distributed systems, scalable SaaS platforms, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in fintech, financial services, or other regulated platforms, including technology strategy, architecture roadmaps, engineering standards, budgets, cloud expenditure, vendors, technology investments, organisational scaling, and technical debt.
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with payment, messaging, or banking technology providers and their operating models.
• Experience with payments, SWIFT financial messaging standards and infrastructure, or banking integrations.
• Experience with financial services compliance and regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• Experience with both digital assets and AI, or experience applying AI in financial services.

Culture & Benefits

• International experience in a stable company operating for over 15 years, with offices in Miami, Antwerp, Leuven, Lisbon, Krakow, Kyiv, and New York.
• Innovative, casual, positive, and open work environment with a collaborative team.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development and for influencing how the financial business operates.