Head of Engineering, Cyprus, Limassol or Larnaca

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer

Team: around 100 software and QA engineers

Hybrid: 4 days in the office, Fridays wfh

About the opportunity

Our client has built a strong global brokerage business. Its clients trade foreign exchange (FX), crypto and other instruments, and it is regulated in multiple jurisdictions. The next step is bigger: a global fintech platform where trading, investing and other services sit in one ecosystem, on technology the group owns. Technology is at the centre of that plan. For years the tech team mainly supported the business. Now it is expected to lead growth, and the group is rebuilding how it works to match. That means product teams, common engineering standards, automated quality gates, and AI used across the development process. A lot of this is started and not finished. Finishing it, and making it work at scale, is this job.

The role

This is a deeply technical leadership role. You own the engineering standards, the technology stack and the automated delivery system that every change passes through: code, review, build, test, security checks and release. Your part is how the software is built and how its quality is proven. The technology heads and the Head of QA report to you. You help them establish shared technical standards, tools and pipelines to deliver efficiently. Quality and automation are to be built into this system from the start, with agentic AI doing a significant part of the work.

What you will do

• Set and maintain the standards for the Python back end, Angular front end and Flutter mobile, together with the heads of the engineering streams and their teams.
• Own the technology stack: drive innovation, set standards, remove bottlenecks, improve delivery KPIs and automate.
• Build one pipeline standard for all services with DevOps.
• Roll out AI across engineering: coding assistants and agents for developers, test agents for QA, and automated review against the standards.

What you bring

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading organisations of 50+ people through team leads or managers.
• Extensive hands-on software engineering background, with proficiency in Python and/or other modern backend programming languages.
• Good knowledge of AWS, containers, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code, plus solid architecture judgement.

What you get

You report to the CTO and work directly with the executive team. You have a clear mandate to rebuild how engineering delivery works across the group. Send your CV in confidence. All applications are handled by Emerald Zebra.