Head of Engineering, Platform (Fintech)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid. Remote work is available across Europe depending on the role, with hubs in Berlin, London, and Tallinn.

Company

hirify.global builds an Investment API that enables fintechs and financial institutions to offer investment products and retirement-planning experiences.

What you will do

• Lead the Platform Tribe across three teams covering infrastructure, reliability, development tooling, and shared libraries.
• Own and shape the tribe roadmap with autonomy over priorities and outcomes.
• Partner with product tribes to understand their needs and translate them into platform priorities.
• Influence the technical direction, reliability, delivery velocity, and quality of hirify.global products.

Requirements

• Experience leading and growing larger engineering teams in a technical leadership capacity.
• Prior experience in the fintech domain and a strong interest in hirify.global’s product domains and client use cases.
• Strong technical expertise and hands-on experience developing highly scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and resilient platforms.
• Ability to connect strategic rationale with engineering solutions, discuss trade-offs, suggest ideas, and apply a product engineering mindset.
• Strong work ethic, pragmatism, security-focused thinking, and a high sense of ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with API-first and SaaS applications.
• Experience building and operating microservice-based, event-driven distributed applications.

Culture & Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave, sports benefits, confidential professional coaching, and a personal development budget.
• €20,000 per year for AI tools and access to modern technologies.
• Remote work abroad for up to 183 days per year and a one-month paid sabbatical after every four years.
• Hybrid or remote work from company hubs or across Europe, depending on the role, with a work setup budget.
• Competitive salary, employee equity participation, company events, and inclusion-focused employee resource groups.

Hiring process

• No specific hiring stages or application instructions are provided.