Head of Software Engineering (Vilnius)

🌍 About the Company

Our client is an established banking and financial technology company delivering specialized software solutions to banks and financial institutions across 80+ countries. Their platforms support critical financial transaction workflows and digital service channels used by global banking players.

💼 About the Role

As Head of Software Engineering, you will lead the engineering team, ensure reliable delivery of mission-critical systems, and gradually strengthen engineering standards, architecture governance, and operational maturity.

This role combines people leadership, technical oversight and delivery accountability.

🔍 Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a distributed software engineering team while working full-time from the Vilnius office;

• Ensure stable and predictable software delivery aligned with business priorities;

• Oversee backend architecture based on microservices and server-based systems;

• Strengthen SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines and quality assurance practices;

• Establish and maintain engineering standards, documentation, and code quality guidelines;

• Plan engineering capacity and support hiring and team development;

• Collaborate closely with Product and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions;

• Support infrastructure and deployment practices in Kubernetes-based environments;

• Act as a senior technical reference point when needed (Java or .NET ecosystem);

• Foster knowledge-sharing, documentation culture, and domain ownership within the team.

🎓 Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead or similar role;

• Strong hands-on background in backend development (Java or .NET);

• Solid experience with microservices and server-based architectures;

• Proven experience improving SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering quality practices in production environments;

• Experience in FinTech, banking, payments or other regulated environments;

• Practical experience working with Kubernetes in production environments;

• Strong leadership and communication skills;

• Fluency in Russian and English (spoken and written).

Nice to Have:

• Experience improving engineering processes and team performance;

• Familiarity with DevOps best practices and infrastructure automation;

• Experience introducing documentation standards (e.g., ADRs, system design documentation);

• Experience working with high-availability or mission-critical systems;

• Lithuanian language skills.

🤝 Key Competencies:

• Strong people leadership and team development skills;

• Strong technical and architectural judgement;

• Delivery and results-oriented mindset;

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills;

• Effective cross-functional communication and collaboration.

✨ The Employer offers:

• Senior leadership role with real ownership over engineering delivery;

• Opportunity to shape engineering standards and team growth;

• Stable, long-term product environment;

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior engineering leadership benchmarks;

• Professional and pragmatic work culture;

• Full-time office-based role in Vilnius.

If you’re ready to lead engineers, shape scalable systems, and take responsibility for both people and technology – let’s talk.