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Head of Engineering

Spiko21 open roles

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Paris, France; London, United Kingdom
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Our Mission

Money sitting idle is money lost. We're fixing that.

Founded in 2023 by Antoine and Paul-Adrien, Spiko gives businesses, non-profits, financial advisers, and fintechs access to institutional-grade cash management, via app or API. We are building the full infrastructure: issuing, operating, and distributing the products ourselves.

Two years after launch, we serve thousands of organizations across Europe and process hundreds of millions of euros in flows every month.

Our ambition: become the world's leading treasury management infrastructure in a market worth trillions.

We are backed by Index Ventures, the CEO of Revolut, the founder of Kyriba, and the CTO of Wise.

Spiko runs on excellence, transparency, and straight talk.

The role: Head of Engineering

Spiko's engineering team is 8 top-tier engineers today. It will triple over the coming year. Your job is to make that scaling succeed while maintaining a very high bar on talent, velocity, and quality.

This is a hands-on leadership role, not a strategist seat. You'll organize the work of Spiko’s tech team, review architecture, and go deep on the hardest technical problems. You’ll own hiring, org design, processes, and delivery.

Two things make engineering at Spiko different:

  • We're building an AI-native org. AI is central to how we design, build, test, and operate, not a tool we bolt on. You'll define what a 30-person engineering team looks like when every engineer is fully leveraged by AI, and keep pushing that frontier.
  • Engineers are owning the product. There is no thick product layer between the team and users. We think that engineers need to talk to clients, shape the roadmap, and own product decisions end to end. You'll work side by side with the Product team. You'll need product judgment as sharp as your technical judgment.

You'll report directly to Antoine, co-founder, and be based in Paris or London, office first.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own engineering delivery end to end: architecture, quality, velocity, and reliability of systems processing hundreds of millions of euros monthly
  • Triple the team within a year: source, close, and onboard top-tier engineers while keeping an uncompromising talent bar
  • In collaboration with the Product team, design the organization for that scale: team structure, ownership model, incident management, and security and compliance by design
  • Make AI a structural advantage: set the tooling, workflows, and standards that multiply every engineer's output
  • Stay hands-on: code, review, make architecture calls, and unblock the team on the hardest problems
  • Work directly with the founders on technical strategy, build vs. buy, and infrastructure and regulatory choices

Who we’re looking for

An engineering leader who has already done this once: scaled a top-tier team through hypergrowth at an exceptional company, and never stopped being a builder. You measure yourself by what ships, by the caliber of the people you hire, and by how fast the team learns. You want to own product outcomes, not just delivery. And you see AI as the defining shift in how software gets built, with strong opinions and receipts to match.

Requirements (must-haves):

  • A proven track record leading a team of 20+ top-tier engineers
  • Experience at an A+ startup or scale-up, through a phase of rapid growth
  • AI-first by conviction and in practice: AI shapes how you run process, delivery, and vision for an engineering org, and you can show it
  • Hands-on for real: you still write code, review PRs, and go deep on architecture
  • A product-oriented mindset: comfortable leading a team that owns product decisions, with strong opinions on what to build, not just how
  • Exceptional hiring ability with a demonstrated high talent bar

Nice to have:

  • Fintech background, or experience in another regulated, high-stakes domain (payments, banking infrastructure, trading)
  • Experience building and operating financial infrastructure at scale (payments, ledgers, market connectivity)
  • Familiarity with the Paris and/or London engineering talent markets

What we offer

  • 💰Compensation: Competitive package depending on experience + Stock Options
  • 📍 Offices: in central Paris & London
  • 🏡 Remote work: up to 2 days per week and one full remote week per month
  • 💻 The best tech for your job: latest-generation laptops and industry-leading software
  • 🏥 Health insurance: 100% covered by Spiko
  • 💳 Monthly Budget to cover different perks of choice
  • 🚇 Transport: 50% of public transport pass covered or the Forfait Mobilités Durables (FMD)
  • 👥 Referral Bonus
  • 🎊 Social life: regular afterworks and biannual offsites

Our hiring process

  1. A screening call with Antoine, co-founder
  2. An afternoon of deep-dive: A technical problem session with Nicolas, Tech Lead, and another senior engineer from the team An interview with Nicolas, Tech Lead, and another senior engineer from the team A deep-dive with Antoine on the org of the team, product vision and AI in the tech team A product discussion with one senior member of our product team
  3. A culture fit interview with Paul-Adrien, CEO & co-founder
  4. Reference Check: we'll reach out to your references to gather further insights
  5. Offer 🎉

If something here doesn't match your résumé perfectly but you believe you'd thrive in this role, apply anyway. Tell us why.

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