Engineering Director – Head of Cards

6 days ago

Bucharest, Bucureşti, Romania Salt Bank Full time €80,000 - €120,000 per year

Job Title:
Engineering Director – Head of Cards & Lending Domain

Department:
Technology

Reports To:
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location:
Bucharest (On-site)

Role Summary

The Engineering Director for the Cards & Lending domain will lead the design, development, and delivery of critical banking products supporting our digital card issuance, card management, credit facilities, and lending ecosystem. As a key member of the Technology Leadership Team, this role ensures the domain's technology strategy aligns with the bank's business objectives, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing platforms and mobile experiences. The role oversees mobile engineering (Android & iOS), backend engineering (Java, Kafka) and QA&E teams and drives excellence across engineering execution, quality, architecture, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership for the Cards & Lending engineering teams, ensuring alignment with product and business goals.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of card issuance, transaction processing, loan origination, credit decisioning, and lifecycle management capabilities.
  • Oversee engineering teams across mobile (Android and iOS) and backend platforms (Java microservices, Kafka event streaming).
  • Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and secure coding principles.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Risk, Operations, and Compliance to deliver robust and compliant financial products.
  • Drive architectural decisions, modernization efforts, scalability improvements, and reliability enhancements for high-demand systems.
  • Mentor, coach, and grow engineering managers, leads, and senior engineers; cultivate a high-performance engineering culture.
  • Manage resource allocation, workforce planning, vendor relationships, and budget considerations.
  • Ensure platform availability, security, and resiliency, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
  • Champion innovation, engineering automation, and continuous improvement across the domain.

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.
  • Proven experience delivering card systems, lending platforms, or other core financial services technologies.
  • Strong technical background in Java-based microservices, Kafka, cloud-native architectures, and mobile technologies (Android & iOS).
  • Demonstrated success leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams in a fast-paced digital environment.
  • Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in financial services (e.g., PCI-DSS, lending regulations).
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, SRE/observability practices, and secure software development lifecycle.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership capabilities.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in modern cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Background in scalable event-driven systems and distributed/modular architectures.
  • Hands-on experience setting technology strategy and driving transformation initiatives.

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to shape the future of a next-generation digital banking in Romania and Europe.
  • Collaborative and innovative environment with strong executive support.
  • Competitive compensation, benefits, and professional development opportunities.

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