Head of Engineering

Meniga Ltd; Ząbki; Hybrid; PLN 336,000 - 444,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Fitness allowance

Meal & phone allowance

Job summary

Meniga Ltd in Poland seeks a Head of Engineering to lead a 27-engineer organization across five teams, reporting to the CTO. You will drive end-to-end delivery, owning both operation and client outcomes as the platform migrates from on-prem to cloud.

The role requires technical credibility, experience at scale, and a strong AI-native approach to tooling, testing, and automation across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering at scale with real production delivery.
• Ability to read architecture and challenge poor decisions.
• Comfort with client escalations and board reviews.
• AI-focused approach to tooling and processes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering delivery from roadmap to production.
• Translate business commitments into engineering execution.
• Embed AI across the SDLC with full automation goals.
• Build an engineering org capable of regulated, on-premise to cloud delivery.
• Partner with CTO, Product, and Commercial in client engagements.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Technical credibility

AI-native mindset

Tools

.NET

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform

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, Warsaw and Cairo.

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 it into 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:

.NET · MSSQL / PostgreSQL · Azure · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform

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: B2B, 28-37k PLN + VAT, + ESOPs

• 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

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