Director of Engineering
KodyPay, also known as Kody, offers an all-in-one platform to simplify in-person commerce for businesses. It provides a suite of products including intuitive payment solutions, instant access to funds with the KodyCard, and powerful management and analytics tools. Partnering with Adyen N.V., Kody enables businesses to accept a wide range of payment methods, streamlining operations for both merchants and customers.
Investors
About KodyPay
KodyPay Ltd, registered in England and Wales, provides a comprehensive, all-in-one platform designed to simplify in-person commerce for businesses, particularly in the hospitality and retail sectors. The company's offerings include a suite of intuitive payment solutions such as terminals and online ordering, instant cash access via the KodyCard, and robust management tools with built-in loyalty and analytics features for understanding customer behavior. Through a partnership with financial services provider Adyen N.V., Kody supports a wide array of payment methods, including major credit cards and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. The platform aims to enhance profit margins by improving the efficiency of the payment ecosystem, while also emphasizing personal customer service and handling processes like payment management, returns, and Know Your Customer (KYC) checks.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the engineering organization and set its technical vision and direction with executive and product leadership. You will guide architecture, oversee delivery across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, and work with Product, Design, and Operations on roadmap priorities. You will promote feedback, mentorship, modern development practices, security, privacy, compliance, documentation, and scalable onboarding processes.
Requirements
- 10–15 years of experience in engineering leadership roles, ideally in fintech, SaaS, or tech-enabled services.
- Experience leading engineering teams at high-growth technology companies or scale-ups.
- Technical expertise in modern architectures and cloud-based platforms.
- Experience managing and growing distributed engineering teams.
- Leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with agile development, DevOps culture, and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Business acumen and ability to align engineering strategy with company objectives.
Responsibilities
- Set and execute the engineering vision and technical direction.
- Deliver an engineering strategy for scalable and secure platform growth.
- Drive timely, high-quality engineering delivery across teams.
- Promote feedback, mentorship, and career development.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Operations on priorities and roadmap planning.
- Champion CI/CD, testing, observability, and agile methodologies.
- Oversee architectural planning across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
- Advocate for engineering priorities while balancing business goals and technical feasibility.
- Maintain onboarding processes, documentation, and workflows.
- Embed data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance into engineering culture.
Benefits
- Frequent team events and socials.
