Head of Engineering

**Who Are We?** Welcome to Welltech—where health meets innovation As a global leader in Health & Fitness industry, we’ve crossed over 200 million installs with five life-changing apps, all designed to boost well-being for millions. Our mission? To transform lives through intuitive nutrition trackers, powerful fitness solutions, and personalized wellness journeys—all powered by a diverse team of over 700 passionate professionals with presence across 5 hubs. **Why Welltech?** Imagine joining a team where your impact on global health and wellness is felt daily. At Welltech, we strive to be proactive wellness partners for our users, while continually evolving ourselves. **What We're Looking For** We’re looking for a Head of Engineering for Payment, to be based in Poland, Spain or Cyprus. Reporting to the Director of Engineering for Growth & Monetisation, You will be part of the Payments team and will be responsible for a) leading a team to support payment transactions for Welltech products, and b) (re)architecting our payments platform to scale for the future. This role will be tasked with retaining, building, and leading a high performing and highly engaged engineering team driving an end-to-end seamless Payment experience. We are currently processing 22M+ transactions on a yearly basis for 8M+ customers over 131 countries. You will have responsibility to co-lead the product development team together with the Head of Product, form a technology strategy and architecture vision together with our Solutions Architect, as well as the day-to-day delivery of your teams, supporting and enhancing the Welltech engineering culture, growing the team and its capabilities and working with your peers to ensure business success. Our culture encourages collaboration, transparency, passion, innovation and having fun by continuous self-improvement, learning and actively sharing feedback to constantly improve performance. You will move fast and are used to driving yourself and your teams in a quickly changing environment. You will challenge the norms and address innovation at pace and at scale. You will be comfortable with ambiguity and address challenges in a systematic, proactive manner to find solutions that increase customer value and happiness. **Key responsibilities**: - ** Lead and empower engineering teams**: Guide and mentor multiple cross-functional engineering teams (including Frontend/Backend Engineers, Infrastructure, and QA) to achieve ambitious goals and deliver impactful solutions. Foster a collaborative and high-performing environment. - ** Define and drive technology strategy**: Develop and articulate a clear technology vision and strategy aligned with product and business objectives. Ensure the adoption of modern, scalable, and reliable technologies across the engineering organization. - ** Architect for scale and resilience**: Oversee the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and maintainable systems that can support millions of users. Provide architectural guidance and ensure adherence to best practices in a microservice environment. - ** Champion engineering excellence**: Drive the adoption of engineering best practices, including clean code, test automation, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and DevOps principles. Promote a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. - ** Foster product and platform thinking**:Cultivate a strong product mindset within the engineering teams, encouraging a "Platform as a Product" approach to build reusable and valuable capabilities. Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmaps and deliver customer value. - ** Manage technical partnerships and vendor relationships**: Evaluate "buy vs. build" decisions and manage strategic partnerships with third-party technology providers to enhance our capabilities and accelerate delivery. - ** Build and grow world-class talent**: Lead the recruitment, development, and retention of top-tier engineering talent. Create an environment that fosters growth, learning, and career progression for all team members. - ** Ensure operational excellence**:Take ultimate responsibility for the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our systems. Drive initiatives to improve system health, reduce operational overhead, and ensure business continuity. **Required skills**: - ** Payment domain expertise**:Proven experience in leading engineering initiatives related to payment processing, security, compliance (e.g., PCI DSS), and a strong understanding of the payment ecosystem and its complexities. - ** Proven leadership experience**:Extensive experience (ideally 5+ years) leading and managing multiple software engineering teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - ** Strategic technology vision**:Demonstrated ability to define and articulate a clear technology strategy that aligns with business goals and drives innovation. - ** Deep understanding of scalable architectures**:Ex