Lead engineering that powers how thousands of finance teams spend
Spendesk is the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform trusted by thousands of finance teams across Europe. As our Head of Engineering, you'll lead a complete engineering group — several Engineering Managers, Senior EMs, and Staff Engineers — reporting directly to our CTO. You'll set the technical and organisational direction for your area, build the leadership team that runs it, 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. You will collaborate with the Head of Product and the Head of Design, and other Head of Engineering responsible for other groups.
Your will be responsible for a multi-disciplinary engineering team of 20-30 people, with different seniority and skillset, spread across Europe.
Technical & organisational strategy
- 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: what to standardise, what to pilot, and how you measure impact.
- 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.

Delivery & operations
- 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 th

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