- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Rewards Platform end to end
- Improve the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product
- Evolve cashback into a broader rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation platform
- Build and scale the engineering organisation, including product units, engineers, and Engineering Managers
- Establish an experimentation culture using A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measurement
- Work with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate acquisition and retention objectives into initiatives
- Own the customer-facing rewards experience across mobile and web
- Define architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics
- Own incidents, production defects, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and developer experience
- Build the platform to serve customers across multiple geographies
- Partner with Product to define rewards-specific metrics and OKRs
- Report functionally to the Group CTO with a dual reporting line to the Rewards Product leader
Requirements
- Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale
- Genuine front-end and mobile engineering depth
- Experience running A/B tests, feature flagging, and measurement frameworks
- At least 5 years of experience managing managers
- At least 10 years of overall software engineering experience
- At least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases
- Hands-on technical leadership and meaningful hands-on engineering time
- Comfort with Java and Spring Boot backend environments
- Experience building and scaling an engineering organisation from a small base
- Experience hiring and developing Engineering Managers
- Strong collaboration with growth, marketing, and sales stakeholders
- Rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalisation, or growth platform experience is advantageous but not required
- Fintech or payments experience is advantageous but not required
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in technical strategy, architecture, and engineering leadership, with a focus on building scalable rewards platforms and enhancing customer engagement through data-driven experimentation and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Technical Strategy Ownership
- A/B Testing and Measurement Frameworks
- Java and Spring Boot Proficiency
- Engineering Team Leadership
- Direct-to-Consumer Product Engineering
Hard Skills
- Software Engineering
- Front-End Engineering
- Mobile Engineering
- A/B Testing
- Feature Flagging
- Engineering Management
- Architecture Standards
- Quality Metrics
- Performance Improvement
- Scalability
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Communication
- Mentoring
- Problem-Solving
Industry Keywords
- Rewards Platform
- Cashback Product
- Customer Engagement
- Retention Strategies
- Fintech
- Payments
- Gamification
- Personalisation
- Growth Platform
- Engineering Organisation
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Head of Engineering, Rewards Arbeitgeber: Jobtailor
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