Head of Engineering, FinTech
Deel
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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About the role
- Own the Fintech Engineering Vision
- Define and execute the technical strategy for Deel’s financial infrastructure
- Build a scalable, modular architecture across payments, ledger, treasury, and compliance
- Drive the evolution toward real-time, event-driven financial systems
- Lead Product-Centric Engineering
- Ensure teams deliver business outcomes, not just features
- Embed product thinking into engineering culture in the era of LLMs
- Drive clarity on what gets built, why, and in what order
- Build systems handling high transaction volumes and global scale
- Ensure idempotency, consistency, and fault tolerance across all financial flows
- Drive engineering execution across three core pillars: Controls, Compliance, Accounting
Requirements
- Proven experience as Head of Engineering / Director / Senior EM in fintech or financial systems
- Built or scaled systems in companies like Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, Wise, Revolut, Coinbase, or similar
- Deep experience with: Payments infrastructure
- Ledger/accounting systems
- High-scale distributed systems
- Experience in regulated environments: KYC / AML
- Compliance systems
- Financial reporting constraints
Benefits
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
- The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access
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Hard Skills & Tools
payments infrastructureledger systemsaccounting systemshigh-scale distributed systemsreal-time systemsevent-driven systemsidempotencyconsistencyfault tolerancefinancial reporting
Soft Skills
leadershipproduct thinkingstrategic executionclarity in communicationteam managementbusiness outcome focusengineering culture development