Director of Engineering

Paymentology

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About The Position

At Paymentology, we’re building the global payments platform of the future, enabling banks, fintechs and innovators to issue and process cards across more than 60 countries. We’re looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead our Digital Services domain and play a key role in shaping the next stage of our engineering organisation. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can look beyond day-to-day delivery, think ahead, and build the technical, organisational and leadership foundations needed to scale.

Requirements

• Proven experience operating at Engineering Director level, with responsibility for leading Engineering Managers and multiple software teams.
• A strong track record of scaling engineering organisations and developing managers into effective, autonomous leaders.
• The ability to think strategically while remaining close enough to delivery and technology to understand where intervention is needed.
• Strong technical foundations and broad judgement across architecture, system design, reliability, security and operational excellence.
• Experience translating business and product strategy into an engineering direction that teams can understand and execute.
• Evidence of improving delivery and engineering effectiveness through clear operating mechanisms, data and strong leadership rather than heroics.
• Strong organisational design and people leadership capability, including coaching, performance management, succession planning, hiring and capability development.
• The confidence and credibility to influence senior stakeholders and create clarity when navigating complex or ambiguous decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within payments, fintech, regulated or high-availability environments would be highly advantageous.
• A leadership style grounded in curiosity, humility, transparency, decisive ownership and genuine care for people.

Responsibilities

• Set the engineering strategy and direction for your domain, translating business and product priorities into clear technical and organisational outcomes.
• Lead, coach and develop Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders, building leadership capability, succession and greater autonomy across teams.
• Strengthen delivery across a complex portfolio, creating the operating rhythms, accountability and visibility needed for teams to execute predictably.
• Shape the domain as we scale, including team structures, ownership, capability, leadership capacity and future hiring needs.
• Drive technical and operational excellence across architecture, reliability, security, observability, performance and maintainability.
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Operations and senior leadership, ensuring Engineering remains connected to customer needs and wider business objectives.
• Navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and cross-team dependencies, making thoughtful trade-offs between customer value, speed, quality, risk and long-term sustainability.
• Use meaningful engineering, operational and people metrics to identify risks, improve performance and drive continuous improvement.

Benefits

• We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
• We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on any unlawful ground, including race, colour, ethnicity, sex, gender, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, language or HIV status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed