Head of Engineering

Why this role, why now

You'll join at a moment where the group you lead has room to simplify, room to invest in AI-augmented engineering, and a leadership team worth building further. You'll have a documented path behind you and ahead of you: Spendesk's Engineering Leadership Growth Journey maps the road from Engineering Manager through Head of Engineering to CTO, so you'll know exactly what's expected of you, and what growing further looks like once you're here.

You'll be based in one of our offices (Paris, London or Barcelona), with a flexible on-site rhythm agreed with your team.

As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope, including 3+ years managing managers (Team Leads/EMs).

• A track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes in product-led SaaS on time, on budget, with measurable results. Fintech, payments, or compliance experience is a strong plus.

• Hands-on experience operating distributed systems at scale in production, and enough technical depth to earn credibility with ICs and Team Leads, not just manage around them.

• Comfort with our stack (TypeScript, Node, React, AWS…). You don't need to write code daily, but you need to read it and question it.

• Real business acumen: you can talk unit economics, ROI, and trade-offs as fluently as you talk architecture.

• A genuine track record of growing managers into better managers, not just engineers into better engineers.