Head of Engineering - SAAS - Remote

Head of Engineering – Fintech - Remote 

Head of Engineering – Fintech - Remote

Calling highly motivated, bright candidates who are looking for a career at an exciting award winning FinTech firm!

Company: Wealth Dynamix 

Role: Head of Engineering – Fintech - Remote 

Location: London 

Start Date: January 2026

Would you like to join one of the fastest growing FinTech firms in Europe? We are looking for an analytical self starter with experience in managing product focussed software delivery. If you are passionate about digital transformation and keen to learn about delivering the market leading Client Lifecycle Managing solution to the Wealth Management industry? apply now!

Who are we?

Wealth Dynamix helps to relieve the burden client management issues for wealth management and private banking firms with innovative technology. 

We provide Relationship Managers with a multi-award winning digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, offering 360-degree access to their client. 

We are a global leader in end-to-end CLM, Wealth Dynamix has offices and clients in three continents with headquarters in the UK.

What is the role? 

The Head of Engineering will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our core multi-tenant SaaS platform. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will shape the technical roadmap, foster a culture of agility and reliability, and ensure our platform delivers performance, security, and compliance for our customers who operate in regulated environments. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll balance strategic oversight with tactical execution to support growth and customer success. 

Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Development: Build, mentor, and scale a diverse engineering team of backend, frontend, DevOps, and QA engineers), embedding testing practices, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and high retention through performance management and career growth.    Foster a culture of accountability aspiring to customer expectations. Ensuring a  

Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Contribute to engineering vision for our multi-tenant architecture, prioritizing scalability, fault tolerance, DR models and tenant isolation to help scale the platform. 

Platform Innovation: Oversee the full lifecycle of feature development, from ideation to deployment, leveraging modern tech stacks to enhance platform capabilities, such as real-time data processing and API integrations. 

Security & Compliance: Champion high grade security practices, including GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 compliance, ensuring these aspects are supported in our software stack and workflow. Uphold security best practices to protect systems, data, and      people. 

Operational Excellence: Embed core design patterns, CI/CD and observability practices tools across the team, identifying areas where skills gaps exist and closing them.  

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, design, sales, and customer success teams to align engineering efforts within wider goals, translating customer feedback into actionable platform improvements and taking ownership of customer problems. 

Metrics & Reporting: Work with delivery community to establish KPIs for engineering velocity, quality, and impact; report on progress to executive leadership and stakeholders. 

Why should you apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a growing FinTech environment with excellent growth prospects. 

With a global client base the role offers an opportunity to experience a wide variety of digital transformation projects – each with their own unique requirements and opportunities. 

We take career progression seriously, with investment into new and existing employee learning and development. 

You will learn a lot with exposure to multiple complex client needs. 

Who is best suited to this role? 

Technical Skills: 

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science / Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 

10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role (e.g., Engineering Manager or equivalent) at a SaaS or Fintech company. 

Proven track record building and scaling multi-tenant platforms, with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and high-availability design.   

Strong understanding of security practices in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), with experience of SAST and DAST. 

Experience leading cross-functional teams in agile environments, with tools such as Gitlab, Jira, Terraform and Azure DevOps.   

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills & Experience: 

Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with the Azure stack working with languages/platforms such as C# .Net and python, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, SQL Server, Redis; and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and Helm. 

Excellent understanding of software architectures; when and where to deploy them. 

Knowledge of encryption and tokenisation systems. 

Prior success in growing engineering teams during growth phases preferred.  

Familiarity with machine learning use cases and event-driven architectures (e.g., Azure ServiceBus and Kafka). 

Experience working in agile development environments and leading cross-functional teams. 

Contributions to open-source projects or speaking at tech conferences would be of interest. 

We believe we offer career defining opportunities and are on a journey that will build awesome memories in a diverse and inclusive culture. If you are looking for more than just a job, get in touch.