Head of Engineering - SAAS - Remote

Wealth Dynamix; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in the UK is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a high-performing team responsible for the development of their multi-tenant SaaS platform. The role requires at least 10 years of engineering experience, with a focus on building scalable solutions and ensuring compliance with security standards. This hands-on leadership position offers the chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company dedicated to digital transformation in wealth management.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

Investment in employee learning and development

Exposure to a variety of digital transformation projects

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role at a SaaS or Fintech company.
• Proven track record building and scaling multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong understanding of security practices in the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the SaaS platform.
• Shape the technical roadmap and foster a culture of agility and reliability.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of feature development from ideation to deployment.

Skills

Team Leadership

Technical Strategy

Platform Innovation

Security Compliance

Operational Excellence

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Metrics & Reporting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Job description

Head of Engineering – Fintech - Remote

Calling highly motivated, bright candidates who are looking for a career at an exciting award winning FinTech firm!

Company: Wealth Dynamix

Role: Head of Engineering – Fintech - Remote

Location: London

Start Date: January 2026

Would you like to join one of the fastest growing FinTech firms in Europe? We are looking for an analytical self starter with experience in managing product focused software delivery. If you are passionate about digital transformation and keen to learn about delivering the market leading Client Lifecycle Managing solution to the Wealth Management industry? apply now!

Who are we?

• Wealth Dynamix helps to relieve the burden client management issues for wealth management and private banking firms with innovative technology.
• We provide Relationship Managers with a multi-award winning digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, offering 360‑degree access to their client.
• We are a global leader in end‑to‑end CLM; Wealth Dynamix has offices and clients in three continents with headquarters in the UK.

What is the role?

The Head of Engineering will lead a high‑performing engineering team responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our core multi‑tenant SaaS platform. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will shape the technical roadmap, foster a culture of agility and reliability, and ensure our platform delivers performance, security, and compliance for our customers who operate in regulated environments. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you'll balance strategic oversight with tactical execution to support growth and customer success.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Build, mentor, and scale a diverse engineering team of backend, frontend, DevOps, and QA engineers, embedding testing practices, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and high retention through performance management and career growth. Foster a culture of accountability aspiring to customer expectations.
• Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Contribute to engineering vision for our multi‑tenant architecture, prioritizing scalability, fault tolerance, DR models and tenant isolation to help scale the platform.
• Platform Innovation: Oversee the full lifecycle of feature development, from ideation to deployment, leveraging modern tech stacks to enhance platform capabilities, such as real‑time data processing and API integrations.
• Security & Compliance: Champion high grade security practices, including GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 compliance, ensuring these aspects are supported in our software stack and workflow. Uphold security best practices to protect systems, data, and people.
• Operational Excellence: Embed core design patterns, CI/CD and observability practices/tools across the team, identifying areas where skill gaps exist and closing them.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, design, sales and customer success teams to align engineering efforts within wider goals, translating customer feedback into actionable platform improvements and taking ownership of customer problems.
• Metrics & Reporting: Work with delivery community to establish KPIs for engineering velocity, quality and impact; report on progress to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Why should you apply?

• This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a growing FinTech environment with excellent growth prospects.
• With a global client base the role offers an opportunity to experience a wide variety of digital transformation projects – each with their own unique requirements and opportunities.
• We take career progression seriously, with investment into new and existing employee learning and development.
• You will learn a lot with exposure to multiple complex client needs.

Who is best suited to this role?

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role (e.g., Engineering Manager or equivalent) at a SaaS or Fintech company.
• Proven track record building and scaling multi‑tenant platforms, with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud‑native architectures and high‑availability design.
• Strong understanding of security practices in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with experience of SAST and DAST.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams in agile environments, with tools such as GitLab, Jira, Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Deep knowledge and hands‑on experience with the Azure stack working with languages/platforms such as C# .NET and Python, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Redis; and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and Helm.
• Excellent understanding of software architectures; when and where to deploy them.
• Knowledge of encryption and tokenisation systems.
• Prior success in growing engineering teams during growth phases preferred.
• Familiarity with machine learning use cases and event‑driven architectures (e.g., Azure ServiceBus and Kafka).
• Experience working in agile development environments and leading cross‑functional teams.
• Contributions to open‑source projects or speaking at tech conferences would be of interest.

We believe we offer career defining opportunities and are on a journey that will build awesome memories in a diverse and inclusive culture. If you are looking for more than just a job, get in touch.