Director of Engineering

Job Description

Director of Engineering (Fintech/Payments) 100% remote role ---- salary up to £120k base + 15% bonus, unlimited holidays and much, much more....

In a further period of exciting growth in N.Ireland VANRATH is partnering with a big name in the fintech/payments space with huge NI and global growth plans.

Salary/ Benefits

To attract the very best talent on the market a generous remuneration package is on offer based on experience, plus a range of benefits including:

  • Salary up to £120k + 15% bonus

  • 100% work from home

  • Generous home office cash allowance.

  • Flexible Holiday Allowance, plus Northern Ireland public holidays.

  • Life insurance

  • Enhanced short and long term sick pay

  • Income protection insurance

  • A generous pension contribution

  • Private medical insurance including optical and dental

  • A health cash plan, annual health, and wellness allowance

Client

Our client drives commerce for businesses with anytime, anywhere payment solutions, delivering exceptional integrated payment technology and serves to meet the diverse and specialised requirements of merchant providers. Headquartered in Chicago and founded in 2003, our client have serviced over 30,000 clients and have processed over $10 billion in annual card volume. Here you will be joining a team of industry leaders with over 200 years of payments industry experience who believe in outcomes over outputs, looking for curious, driven and pragmatic individuals to continue and drive forward their vision as trusted advisers and recognised experts in payments.

The role

  • Hiring, mentoring, developing, and retain top-notch engineering talent.

  • Create effective full-stack software development teams focused on the nimble delivery of value for our clients customers.

  • Inspired by industry best practices and sound principals, drive constant innovation through Architecture, Database, Engineering, and DevOps teams.

  • Collaborate closely with the executive team as well as cross-functional teams to deliver great products and solve customer problems as needed.

  • Support the product team and planning process to deliver great products and ensure all deadlines and needs of the business are being met.

  • Maintain and improve agile processes collaboratively with the teams, and enable new development techniques or methods to reduce complexity, promote quality, and increase velocity.

  • Help engineers grow in their career paths, learning new technologies, and tackling increasingly challenging projects.

  • Drive efficiency in your teams by eliminating blocks and focusing efforts on tooling, continuous integration/delivery, and maintainable automation testing.

  • Foster a culture of operational excellence in your teams through real-time monitoring and alerting.

  • Create and support a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

  • Able to coordinate the development of cross-team features between engineering teams, product managers and our technical operations team.

The Ideal Person

    • An interest in making an impact on the way money moves between people globally.

    • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

    • 5+ years of experience in software development management.

    • 1+ years as a Director of Engineering or above whose span of influence is at or above 10 engineers.

    • Excellent communication skills, able to listen to and share ideas, effectively present concepts, and work with remote teams.

    • Comfortable leading cross-functional teams on ambiguous, diverse or complex problems to determine resolutions or alternative and implement them with a high degree of autonomy.

    • Willingness to backtrack, seek multiple solutions, and experiment to validate approaches.

    • Understands that no-one has all the answers, is comfortable saying "I don't know" to team members, while resolving to help them explore solutions.

    • A strong background in object-oriented programming in a language such as Java, C# or C++ etc.

    • Experience mentoring new managers in building productive engineering teams.

    • Strong fluency in Lean / Kanban software practices.

    • Creative, Investigative, Innovative, Insightful, and able to make technical leaps, finding novel solutions.

    • Capable and comfortable working with high-level management.

    • Good appreciation of project management skills, dependency identification / mapping and tracking.

    • Ability to work independently towards goals.

    • Excellent work ethic and the ability to be a productive and reliable team member.

    • Other duties as assigned.

This role will suit a Technical Development Manager ready to step up into a Director level role or an existing Software Director that is keen to work 100% remotely and be part of something special. Suitable candidates should come from a strong technical development background. You might not be writing software right now but you could and are excited to talk about architecture and get involved in code reviews when required.

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For further information on this vacancy, or any other Technical Director roles in Belfast or the wider Irish market, please apply via the link below or contact Phil Gamble in the strictest confidence.

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