Head of Engineering

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We are looking for a Head of Engineering with experience working within the Payments Industry.

Runa is pioneering a first‑of‑its‑kind payment rail that enables seamless, global money movement acy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low‑volume, high‑velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost‑free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, Top Cashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

As a Head of Engineering, you will oversee multiple engineering teams within our Treasury domain, managing managers and senior engineers while shaping the technical direction of our platform. Reporting directly to the CPTO and as part of the Runa Leadership Group (RLG), you will play a key role in advancing innovation, efficiency, and operational excellence, ensuring your teams deliver high‑impact solutions in a fast‑paced fintech environment.

You’ll combine strategic direction with hands‑on technical guidance, especially in architectural decision‑making, supporting teams to continually drive modern engineering practices and scale our systems with resilience, performance, and security at the core.

We have Python and Type Script services running across Kubernetes (EKS) and Lambda functions. Our persistence is largely Aurora (Postgres) but new services will also be leveraging Dynamo

DB and their event triggers.

• The opportunity to influence both technical strategy and business direction
• Managing, mentoring, and scaling high‑performing teams of engineering managers and IC’s.
• Driving architectural direction and ensuring technical initiatives are aligned with company objectives.
• Collaborating with product, design, and other cross‑functional teams to deliver strategic roadmaps.
• Embedding best‑practice engineering principles and fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• Experience or deep knowledge in the payments and/or fintech space, with a track record of guiding teams through complex, high‑scale systems.
• Demonstrated success supporting managers as well as senior IC’s, with a passion for coaching and driving high performance.
• Strong technical depth, able to guide architectural conversations and advocate modern engineering practices.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment, driving adoption of modern engineering practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Evidence of influencing strategy and business outcomes beyond engineering, contributing to broader company growth.

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role, we would still encourage you to apply.

• 🏢 Hybrid structure with the requirement of 1–2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch High Street)
• 📚 £1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D Days per year
• 🔋 Runa Reset Days – Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well‑deserved Reset Day
• ☀️ Summer Hours – In the month of August, we log off at 3 pm on Fridays.
• 🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year
• 🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool, giving you ownership in Runa
• 🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa
• 👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay
• 💷 Salary transparency is in progress; our talent team will discuss expectations during the initial call.

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