Head of Engineering

Meniga; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 560,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private healthcare

Fitness allowance

Meal & phone allowance

Direct line to CTO

Job summary

Meniga seeks a Head of Engineering to lead our engineering organisation across five teams, delivering end-to-end production results for major European bank clients. You will report to the CTO and drive transformation from on-prem to cloud, with real production outcomes and client-facing accountability.

You will guide a teams-first approach, own delivery commitments, and embed AI across the SDLC, ensuring rapid, reliable deliveries under real-world constraints.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering at scale with real production systems.
• Ability to own both operation and client-facing outcomes.
• Proven mindset for AI integration across development lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering delivery end-to-end from roadmap to production.
• Ensure real commitments are met and blockers are removed.
• Lead an engineering organisation capable of handling on-premises and cloud deployments.
• Hire and grow teams to meet high-stakes, regulated client needs.
• Partner with CTO, Product and Commercial to translate commitments into execution.
• Embed AI across SDLC with full automation as a goal.

Skills

Engineering leadership

End-to-end accountability

AI-native

Cloud & on-prem

Client-facing leadership

Strategy & execution

Job description

Meniga builds financial intelligence for the world's leading banks - 100M+ users, 30+ countries. We're not the brand on the app. We're the layer underneath it - the one that makes the data meaningful, the experience personal, and the bank worth opening. Meniga’s offices are in London, Reykjavik and Warsaw.

HEAD OF ENGINEERING

Financial intelligence for 100M+ users across the world's leading banks

THE WORK

You run Meniga’s engineering organisation - 27 engineers across five teams, each with real ownership and real clients. You report directly to the CTO. You are accountable end-to-end - from operation and execution to what lands at the client. The outcome reaches production at the bank, or it didn’t ship.

The first months are hands-on. You’ll carry individual contributor weight alongside your team leads - shipping, reviewing, making calls - while you learn the services, the clients, and what the organisation actually needs.

The context is a real-scale transformation running in parallel with active client delivery at European-scale banks. On-premises licensing to cloud. MSSQL to PostgreSQL at scale. Core product rewritten from the ground up. A fragmented portfolio being standardised and platformised. AI embedded across the entire SDLC — tooling, testing, workflows. This isn’t greenfield. There’s real legacy, and the goal is strangler fig — not a rewrite. The role is for someone who can lead through real constraints, not around them.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own engineering delivery end-to-end - from roadmap commitment to what lands in production at the bank. No handoffs, no diffusion of accountability
• Targets are real commitments - you take them seriously, you find a way, and when something is blocking delivery you remove it - you don’t escape as a slide deck
• Make the transformation happen - not as a programme manager, not as a coordinator - as someone who understands what needs to happen technically, removes what blocks it, and is accountable for the result
• Build an engineering organisation that can handle this - regulated clients, on-premises constraints, high-stakes delivery. You hire for that reality, grow people into it, and don’t accept a team that could only survive in easier conditions
• Partner with CTO, Product, and Commercial - translate business commitments into engineering execution, represent engineering in client escalations and board reviews
• Embed AI across the SDLC - coding, testing, workflows. Full automation is the goal, not the aspiration

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Run engineering at this scale before - real product in production, with clients that hold you to it. You can point to what changed under your leadership
• End-to-end accountable - you own operation and execution from roadmap to what the client experiences in production. Not “my team delivered their part.” The outcome reaches the client, or it didn’t ship
• Still technically credible - you don’t need to write the code, but you can read a PR, smell a bad architectural decision, and ask the question that exposes it. Your team leads can’t bullshit you technically, and they know it
• Outcome over activity - you measure the organisation on what shipped and how it performed - not on how busy it looked
• Comfortable with commercial reality - you can sit in a client escalation, a board review, and a post-incident retro in the same week and bring the same clarity to each
• AI-native - you have a real position on how AI changes engineering - tooling, headcount, skill mix - and you’re already acting on it

THE STACK

You don't need to master it, but you need to understand it:

Most systems are on-premises at client sites and actively migrating toward cloud. You’ll make calls in both worlds.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity
• Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3 remote days
• Private healthcare, fitness, meal & phone allowance
• A seat at the leadership table and a direct line to the CTO
• The mandate to build the engineering organisation you’d want to join
• Software that runs inside real banks, used by 100M+ people every day

HOW WE HIRE

• Screening - 30 min call. How you’ve led engineering and what you’re looking for next.
• Meet the CTO - 60 min. How you think about scaling engineering, growing people, and delivering through change.
• Leadership deep-dive - 90 min. An organisational scenario from our real situation, with the CTO and one engineering lead. No theatre, no trick questions.
• Decision/ offer within 10 days of the final interview.