Job Description

At Meniga our mission is to help people lead better & more sustainable financial lives. We do this by working with banks worldwide to make their digital banking experience fun and engaging. Today we are serving 100+ million digital banking users across 30+ countries, with products spanning transaction enrichment, financial management, behavioral insights, and conversational banking AI. Meniga’s offices are in London, Reykjavik and Warsaw.

THE WORK

As a Head of Engineering, you will run Meniga’s engineering organisation - five teams, each with real ownership and real clients. 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.

This is a leadership role, not a manager-of-managers holding pattern. You set the standard, you build the bench, and you are on the hook for what engineering delivers and what it costs. You partner closely with the CTO on technical direction, with Product on roadmap, and with Commercial on commitments.

The context: Meniga is scaling engineering to match a growing business and a full commitment to AI. The platform is in an active transformation - performance, architecture, and AI, across systems running inside the world’s largest banks. This role is for someone who wants to lead through that - not around it.

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 came up through engineering and never fully left. Your team leads respect your technical input, not just your authority

• 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

WHAT YOU GET

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3 remote days

• A seat at the leadership table and a direct line to the CTO

• The mandate to build the engineering organisationyou’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 within 10 days of the final interview.

OUR BENEFITS

• Health and Benefits- Private healthcare, fitness allowance, and leave benefits
• Supportive Work Environment- Work-life balance, hybrid working, meal allowance, team-building events, and reimbursement for mobile phone subscriptions
• Growth Opportunities- International projects and career advancement
• Financial Rewards- Competitive salaries, performance-based bonuses, and ESOPs