SVP Engineering (Payment)

Monroe Consulting Group is currently hiring on behalf of a leading and rapidly scaling Fintech company in the lending sector , currently looking to hire an experienced Head of Engineering (Software) to lead their growing technology team. This is a key leadership role for someone who thrives in high-growth environments , has strong technical depth in backend engineering, and is passionate about building scalable products that drive real business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering roadmap aligned with business goals, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability of systems.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team across backend, frontend, and mobile.
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement within the engineering department.
• Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to align engineering priorities with company strategy.
• Oversee architecture design and technical decisions, with a strong focus on backend scalability, microservices, and distributed systems .
• Drive large-scale system improvements to handle significant user and transaction growth.
• Lead efforts to re-architect and optimize existing platforms while building new products from scratch during the company's rebranding phase.
• Ensure best practices in coding standards, automated testing, CI / CD, and DevOps are consistently applied.
• Manage a large engineering team, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and career growth opportunities.
• Set performance metrics and monitor progress against delivery timelines, quality benchmarks, and system performance KPIs.
• Cultivate collaboration across backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, and QA functions.

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