What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Engineering position at Match Relevant?
We're building a next-generation consumer fintech platform focused on making a complex financial process dramatically simpler for millions of people. This is founded by the leaders of a unicorn who is building their next big idea (native ai) and has millions of users from current ventures.
This is a high-trust product operating in a regulated environment where security, reliability, privacy, and user experience all matter. We're looking for an engineering leader who is excited to build a category-defining product from the ground up alongside experienced founders.
The Role:
- As a Founding Leader / Head of engineering you will own engineering from the earliest stages of the company.
- This is a true player-coach role. You'll help define the technical vision, build and ship product, establish engineering best practices, recruit exceptional engineers, and scale the organization as the company grows.
- Serve as the company's senior technical leader, helping translate business goals into technical strategy while partnering closely with product, design, and company leadership.
- Hire and mentor a small team of high-performing engineers.
- Establish a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, craftsmanship, collaboration, and execution.
- You've build fintech products where trust, scale, and customer experience were essential.
The Work:
- Lead engineering from early product development through public customer deployment.
- Define the company's architecture, engineering standards, development processes, infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.
- Work closely with product and design to deliver an intuitive consumer experience.
- Own the architecture and technical foundation
AI Native product:
- Design systems that prioritize security, privacy, reliability, compliance, and scalability while maintaining exceptional product quality.
- Leverage AI Across Engineering
- Apply modern AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and developer velocity.
Industry Experience:
- Consumer fintech / Saas
- Banking / Payments
- Financial infrastructure
- Security and privacy