Engineering Jobs in London

Lead engineering that powers how thousands of finance teams spendSpendesk is the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform trusted by thousands of finance teams across Europe. As our Head of Engineering, you'll lead a complete engineering group — several Engineering Managers, Senior EMs, and Staff Engineers — reporting directly to our CTO. You'll set the technical and organisational direction for your area, build the leadership team that runs it, and be accountable for the economics, reliability, and pace of everything it ships.You will work with 2 to 4 Engineering Managers, reporting directly to you. You will collaborate with the Head of Product and the Head of Design, and other Head of Engineering responsible for other groups.Your will be responsible for a multi-disciplinary engineering team of 20-30 people, with different seniority and skillset, spread across Europe.Own your area's economics — cost-to-serve, infra efficiency, hiring ROI — with a clear quarterly view, and present the commercial rationale behind your investment decisions.Delivery & operationsBe accountable for delivery and outcomes across your full portfolio of squads, balancing competing priorities without losing sight of quality.Sequence hiring and headcount to maximise impact, and defend that plan to stakeholders with data.Building your leadership teamHire, develop, and retain a strong, balanced leadership team of EMs, Senior EMs, and Staff Engineers.Coach your managers through their hardest calls: performance conversations, hiring decisions, prioritisation trade-offs.Lead performance calibration for your group and make the final call on promotions and compensation.Build succession plans for your key leadership roles, so no single departure puts your group at risk.Influence beyond your teamRepresent Engineering in company-wide forums, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, and customer-facing teams.Champion diversity and inclusion in how you hire, develop, and run your organisation.What you'll bring8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope, including 3+ years managing managers (Team Leads/EMs).Comfort with our stack (TypeScript, Node, React, AWS…). Real business acumen: you can talk unit economics, ROI, and trade-offs as fluently as you talk architecture.Why his role, why nowYou'll join at a moment where the group you lead has room to simplify, room to invest in AI-augmented engineering, and a leadership team worth building further. Spendesk's Engineering Leadership Growth Journey maps the road from Engineering Manager through Head of Engineering to CTO, so you'll know exactly what's expected of you, and what growing further looks like once you're here.You'll be based in one of our offices (Paris, London or Barcelona), with a flexible on-site rhythm agreed with your team.As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as Payfit, Accor, Welcome to the Jungle, Swile, Big Mamma, Malt and Yousign. With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.Flexible on-site and remote policyLatest Apple equipment — the tools you need to excelAccess to Moka.care — for emotional and mental health wellbeingGreat office snacks — to fuel your dayA positive team to work with daily!We also offer location-specific benefits tailored to each market, including health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, and gym memberships — ensuring you're well supported wherever you're based.Diversity & InclusionAt Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone.