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Overview
Salary No salary declared 😔
Location Sofia, Bulgaria
Expires Expires at anytime
Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly.
Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are.Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient.
Operating in more than 30 countries and 18 currencies, hundreds of leading companies rely on Runa to power instant, flexible global payouts including Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Vodafone, Coinbase and Globetopper.
We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. You can read more about our team here - Diversity & Inclusion
Our Team
We’re building a Product & Engineering team where people can do their best work. A team that sits right at the heart of the business. We’re looking for a talented and ambitious Head of Engineering to scale an an area of the product and engineering function.
We have Python and TypeScript services running across Kubernetes (EKS) and Lambda functions. Our persistence is a mix of Aurora (Postgres) and DynamoDB. We have structure in place from hiring and levelling to how we make technical decisions that will allow the right people to thrive!
The Role
As a Head of Engineering you will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of managers and engineers to build products that will have a huge impact on our platform, and our customers. As well as providing technical direction, you will manage group performance, mentor each team, review system design changes and support the hiring and training of new team members. You will also convert group level objectives into team objectives and ensure the teams are focused and motivated.
What Excites You:
- The opportunity to collaborate and have a meaningful impact across the wider engineering function, whilst scaling high performing engineering teams.
- Influencing organisational structure and supporting technical vision and strategy
- Providing strategic and design expertise working directly with the CTO to effectively scale our platform, to provide an outstanding experience for our growing customer base.
- Ensure best practice software engineering and system design patterns by working directly with your teams and through performance metrics.
What Excites Us:
- Experience leading Engineering Managers and individual contributors, providing a supportive and engaging environment whilst promoting the highest standards in engineering best practice and operational excellence.
- Demonstrable experience hiring, coaching and developing engineering teams
- Evidence of shipping high complexity high usage tier one services.
- Evidence of maintaining and improving on existing high complexity high usage tier one services.
Benefits:
🌴 25 days holiday + bank holidays
🧠All permanent employees receive 5 extra days off to help boost their well-being when they need it
🚀Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa and participation in the upside
🚑Private Medical Health Insurance, covering Dental & Vision Insurance
💙Supplementary Pension Insurance
👶Enhanced parental leave
📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 6 days study leave per year
🖥£150 to create an awesome remote work experience
⭐️Recognition awards, where we shine the spotlight on exceptional employees every quarter who in turn get a £100 award in the eGift card of their choice
☕️Staff perks with Runa brands - discounts of up to 12% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless
Take a look under the hood of life at Runa from our employees perspective. This handbook built using Notion.so is what we use to navigate both the serene and choppy waters when needed. You might need to copy and paste the following link into your browser as job boards don't allow us to add hyperlinks - https://bit.ly/2PluGyG
