Fractional Head of Engineering

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading a team of roughly 5-15; still highly hands-on.
• Strong TypeScript: Node.js/NestJS on the server and React/Next.js on the front end.
• Deep MySQL/Postgres expertise: schema design, indexing, query planning and performance optimisation.
• Practical experience with queues and caching using BullMQ/Redis or equivalent.
• Built observability and on-call systems using Sentry or another APM, alerting and production support practices.
• Has set up and maintained agent-driven software engineering workflows, not merely used coding assistants.
• Has shipped an LLM feature or conversational agent to production, including evaluation, cost, latency and failure modes.
• Strong plus: Experience building regulated, transaction-heavy or high-trust consumer platforms; fintech or wealthtech exposure is an advantage.