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    "description": "<ul></ul>\n<p><span>Meniga builds financial intelligence for the world's leading banks - 100M+ users, 30+ countries. We're not the brand on the app. We're the layer underneath it - the one that makes the data meaningful, the experience personal, and the bank worth opening. </span><span>Meniga’s offices are in London, Reykjavik, Warsaw and Cairo.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-weight: bold\"><span><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219)\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">HEAD OF ENGINEERING</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt\"> </span></span></span> </span></p>\n<p><em><span>Financial intelligence for 100M+ users across the world's leading banks</span></em></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">THE WORK</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"> </span></span><span><br></span></p>\n<p><span><span>You run Meniga’s </span></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>engineering </span><span>organisation</span></span></span><span><span> - </span><span>27 engineers across </span><span>five teams, each with real ownership and real clients.</span><span> You report directly to the CTO.</span><span> You are </span><span>accountable</span><span> end-to-end - from operation and execution to what lands at the client. The outcome reaches production at the bank, or it </span><span>didn’t</span><span> ship.</span></span><span> </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span><span>The first months are hands-on. </span><span>You’ll</span><span> carry individual contributor weight alongside your team leads - shipping, reviewing, making calls - while you </span><span>learn</span><span> the services, the clients, and what the </span><span>organisation</span><span> </span><span>actually needs</span><span>.</span></span><span> </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span><span>The context is a real-scale transformation running in parallel with active client delivery at European-scale banks. On-premises licensing to </span><span>cloud</span><span>. MSSQL to PostgreSQL at scale. Core product rewritten from the ground up. A fragmented portfolio being </span><span>standardised</span><span> and </span><span>platformised</span><span>. AI embedded across the entire SDLC — tooling, testing, workflows. This </span><span>isn’t</span><span> </span><span>greenfield</span><span>. There’s real legacy, and the goal is strangler fig — not a rewrite. The role is for someone who can lead through real constraints, not around them.</span></span><span> </span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">WHAT YOU’LL DO</span><span style=\"color: rgb(27, 58, 107); font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Own engineering delivery end-to-end - </span></span></span><span><span>from roadmap commitment to </span><span>what lands in</span><span> production at the bank. No handoffs, no diffusion of accountability</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Targets are real commitments - </span></span></span><span><span>you take them seriously, you find a way, and when something is blocking delivery you rem</span><span>ove it - you </span><span>don’t</span><span> escalate it into a slide deck</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Make the transformation happen - </span></span></span><span><span>not as a </span><span>programme</span><span> manager, not as a coordinator - as someone who understands what needs to happen technically, removes what blocks it, and is accountable for the result</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Build an engineering </span><span>organisation</span><span> that can handle this - </span></span></span><span><span>regulated clients, on-premises constraints, high-stakes delivery. You hire for that reality, grow people into it, and </span><span>don’t</span><span> accept a team that could only survive in easier conditions</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Partner with CTO, Product, and Commercial - </span></span></span><span><span>translate business commitments into engineering execution, represent engineering in client escalations and board reviews</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Embed AI across the SDLC - </span></span></span><span><span>coding, testing, workflows. Full automation is the goal, not the aspiration</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219)\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"> </span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Run engineering at this scale before</span></span></span><span><span> - real </span><span>product in</span><span> production, with clients that hold you to it. You can point to what changed under your leadership</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>End-to-end accountable</span></span></span><span><span> - </span><span>you</span><span> 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 </span><span>didn’t</span><span> ship</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Still technically credible</span></span></span><span><span> - <span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\">you </span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\">don’t</span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\"> need to write the code, but you can read a PR, smell a bad architectural decision, and ask the question that exposes it. Your team leads </span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\">can’t</span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\"> bullshit you technically, and they know it</span></span></span></span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Outcome over activity</span></span></span><span><span> - you measure the </span><span>organisation</span><span> on what shipped and how it performed - not on how busy it looked</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Comfortable with commercial reality</span></span></span><span><span> - 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</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>AI-native</span></span></span><span><span> - you have a real position on how AI changes engineering - tooling, headcount, skill mix - and </span><span>you’re</span><span> already acting on it</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">THE STACK</span> </span></p>\n<p><span>You don't need to master it, but you need to understand it:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\">.NET  ·  MSSQL / PostgreSQL  ·  Azure  ·  Kubernetes  ·  Helm  ·  Terraform</span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\"> </span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(107, 114, 128); font-style: italic\">Most systems are on-premises at client sites and actively migrating toward cloud. You’ll make calls in both worlds.</span><span style=\"color: rgb(107, 114, 128)\"> </span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">WHAT YOU'LL GET</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"> </span></span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Competitive salary + meaningful equity: <span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\">B2B, 28-37k PLN + VAT, + ESOPs</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 26)\"> </span></span></span></span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Hybrid - 2 days in office, 3 </span><span>remote</span></span><span> days</span></li>\n<li><span>Private healthcare, fitness, meal &amp; phone allowance</span><span> </span><br></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>A seat at the leadership table and a direct line to the CTO</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>The mandate to build the engineering </span><span>organisation</span><span> </span><span>you’d</span><span> want to join</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>Software that runs inside real banks, used by 100M+ people every day</span></span><span> </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p> </p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\"><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold\">HOW WE HIRE</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt\"> </span></span></p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span><span>Screening</span></span></span><span><span> - 30 min call. 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