Head of Engineering — Scale AI Platform (Remote/Hybrid)

Odin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness budget

Parental leave

Pension

Time Off

Work From Anywhere

Birthday Leave

Job summary

Odin is building the investment infrastructure for private markets. We’re hiring our founding Head of Engineering to shape an engineering org from six to 15-20 and drive high-agency delivery in a revenue-generating, post-PMF stage.

This role blends hands-on coding with leadership: you own feature delivery, engineering standards, and killer product velocity while mentoring the team, forging partnerships with banking and KYC vendors, and ensuring strict reliability across jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Engineering execution: own features and critical system decisions.
• Engineering standards: code quality, testing, reviews, docs, on-call.
• Performance management: direct feedback and high standards.
• Hiring and team growth: scale from six to 15-20 engineers.
• AI productivity: translate AI gains into team-level outcomes.
• Engineering reliability: pre-mortems, on-call, incident response.
• Working with Product: align on what and why we ship.
• Technical partner relationships: banking, KYC, custodians, vendors.

Job description

Odin is building the investment infrastructure for private markets. We’re hiring our founding Head of Engineering to shape an engineering org from six to 15-20 and drive high-agency delivery in a revenue-generating, post-PMF stage.

This role blends hands-on coding with leadership: you own feature delivery, engineering standards, and killer product velocity while mentoring the team, forging partnerships with banking and KYC vendors, and ensuring strict reliability across jurisdictions.