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About the Role
As our Head of Engineering, you'll lead a complete engineering group, set the technical and organisational direction, build the leadership team, and be accountable for the economics, reliability, and pace of everything it ships. You will work with 2 to 4 Engineering Managers, reporting directly to you, and collaborate with Heads of Product and Design. You will be responsible for a multi-disciplinary engineering team of 20-30 people, spread across Europe.
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-quarter technical and organisational strategy for your group, aligned with Spendesk's company strategy.
- Drive architectural decisions and simplification across your domain — clear domain boundaries, “platformisation”, debt reduction.
- Make build vs. buy vs. partner calls, and own your group's AI/tooling strategy.
- Own your area's economics — cost-to-serve, infra efficiency, hiring ROI — with a clear quarterly view, and present the commercial rationale behind your investment decisions.
- Be accountable for delivery and outcomes across your full portfolio of squads, balancing competing priorities without losing sight of quality.
- Establish group-level KPIs, SLOs, and operating rhythms so your teams run well without you in every room.
- Champion end-to-end observability, sensible on-call, and postmortems that actually change things — reducing incident frequency and MTTR over time.
- Sequence hiring and headcount to maximise impact, and defend that plan to stakeholders with data.
- Hire, develop, and retain a strong, balanced leadership team of EMs, Senior EMs, and Staff Engineers.
- Coach your managers through their hardest calls: performance conversations, hiring decisions, prioritisation trade-offs.
- Lead performance calibration for your group and make the final call on promotions and compensation.
- Build succession plans for your key leadership roles, so no single departure puts your group at risk.
- Actively invest in retaining your best people, and keep a genuine pulse on team sentiment.
- Represent Engineering in company-wide forums, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and customer-facing teams.
- Communicate your strategy and trade-offs clearly to both engineers and executives.
- Champion diversity and inclusion in how you hire, develop, and run your organisation.
Requirements
- 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.
- Enough technical depth to earn credibility with ICs and Team Leads, not just manage around them.
- Comfort with our stack (TypeScript, Node, React, AWS…), including ability to read and question code.
- Real business acumen: ability to discuss unit economics, ROI, and trade-offs fluently.
- A genuine track record of growing managers into better managers.
Skills
- TypeScript
- Node
- React
- AWS
- AI-powered spend management
- Procurement platform
- Technical strategy
- Organisational strategy
- Architecture
- Delivery
- Operations
- Hiring
- Team development
- Performance management
- Diversity and inclusion
Location
- Paris
- London
- Barcelona
Work Type
- Flexible on-site and remote policy
Experience Level
- 8+ years in software engineering
- 3+ years managing managers
Benefits
- Flexible on-site and remote policy
- Latest Apple equipment
- Access to Moka.care — for emotional and mental health wellbeing
- Great office snacks
- Positive team environment
- Location-specific benefits tailored to each market, including health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, and gym memberships
About the Company
- Spendesk is the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform that transforms company spending.
- By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation, Spendesk sets the new standard for spending at work.
- Its single, intelligent solution makes efficient spending easy for employees and gives finance leaders the full visibility and control they need across all company spend, even in multi-entity structures.
- Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as Payfit, Accor, Welcome to the Jungle, Swile, Big Mamma, Malt and Yousign.
- With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.
Equal Opportunity
- At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated.
- We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone.
- Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.