Director of Engineering — Finance Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Director of Engineering — Finance Engineering

• Team domain: Accounting Product, Reconciliation, Finance Data Platform

• Reporting line: Chief Accounting Officer

• Work model: Hybrid; onsite Tuesday–Thursday

• Compensation (Poland): Starting base salary typically PLN 576,000–648,000 gross per annum on UoP; equity via RSUs as part of total compensation

Description

Lead Finance Engineering to evolve financial systems for accounting, reconciliation, and a finance data platform into a data-centric architecture that integrates with best-in-class, off-the-shelf financial platforms. Own multi-year strategy and architecture, ensuring reliability, correctness, and compliance for systems of record, and grow managers and senior engineers. Help design for an agentic, AI-assisted future where AI agents may compose parts of the work.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year strategy for Finance Engineering and translate Finance needs into a deliverable roadmap.
• Lead the evolution of the technology and architecture roadmap, including build-vs-buy decisions.
• Set and uphold the reliability, correctness, and compliance bar for auditor- and regulator-dependent systems of record.
• Provide technical leadership as a peer to principal and staff engineers, and grow managers for the next phase.
• Design the geographic workforce plan and drive hiring and succession.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical leadership experience, including 5+ years leading multiple teams within a domain.
• Experience building and operating financial, data, or large distributed systems depended on by other teams and stakeholders.
• Accounting, ledger, reconciliation, or payments systems experience is a big plus.
• Technical depth to engage principal and staff engineers as a peer and to step in on hard problems.
• Experience with engineering workforce planning and org design across geographies; ability to run a healthy org with appropriate oversight.
• Comfort articulating clear technical opinions to executives and translating between business strategy and technical bets.
• A point of view on agentic, AI-assisted impacts on finance systems and how you would build for it.
• Strong security and compliance sensibility in a regulated industry (fintech, banking, or payments).

Benefits

• 26 days paid holiday plus additional company days off
• Equity via RSUs; Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
• Open leave policy (flexible vacation days with manager approval)
• Commuting to work expense
• Health/Dental coverage (LUX MED VIP for employee and family)
• Life insurance, mental health, and family planning benefits
• Continuing education and equipment of your choice
• Referral bonuses

Connected work culture: in-person collaboration with onsite attendance Tuesday–Thursday each week (additional attendance may be required based on business needs).