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Head of Engineering (Hybrid, London, UK)

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We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us! As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities. Our values are Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. We are transforming urban mobility and growing better, together.

Are you ready to lead top talent engineering managers and senior individual contributors? We are seeking an experienced, passionate and results-driven Head of Engineering to play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact and difference for our customers, our people, and our business.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the engineering strategy for our transaction platform, covering data, in-vehicle payments, and EV charging, ensuring alignment with product vision, commercial goals, and user needs.
• Lead and scale a high-performing backend engineering team across multiple squads, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture rooted in technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own the architecture, development, and operational health of mission-critical systems, including sensitive payment infrastructure and PCI DSS-compliant CDE components.
• Drive integration with a wide ecosystem of third-party providers, including EV charging networks, fuel stations, toll operators, parking aggregators, and acquirers, enabling seamless in-vehicle transactions at global scale.
• Scale and optimise our EV charging platform, delivering value across drivers, charging operators (CPOs), OEMs, and internal business units.
• Support and evolve the Group’s data strategy, enabling the intelligent use of mobility, behavioural, and payment data to unlock new product and commercial opportunities.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, and scalability through robust observability, incident response processes, performance testing, and fault-tolerant architecture.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to meet regulatory and certification standards (e.g., PCI DSS, TISAX, ISO 27001), and embed security into development workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Partner Operations, and Business Development to translate user and partner needs into scalable, production-ready solutions.
• Take ownership of growth strategy and team development, including hiring, budgeting, and identifying future skills, structures, and potential acquisitions.
• Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that advance both product capabilities and technical maturity across the platform.
• Promote agile, sustainable software development practices and actively contribute to an open, inclusive, and purpose-driven engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in software engineering, ideally within large-scale data platforms, transactional systems, fintech, automotive, or mobility sectors.
• Extensive experience managing senior engineering leaders and geographically distributed teams across multiple platforms. Skilled in coaching, fostering collaboration, and building resilient, high-performance cultures.
• Practical experience building workflow tooling and processing pipelines that manage large-scale, high-throughput datasets.
• Strong background in delivering and scaling B2B2C or partner-integrated platforms, combining a user-centric and data-driven mindset.
• Experience in designing and operating transactional systems, including session management and payment systems.
• Demonstrated success in delivering systems in regulated environments (e.g. PCI DSS, TISAX, ISO 27001), including compliance alignment and audit readiness.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud-native engineering (preferably AWS), microservice architecture, container orchestration, and scalable infrastructure.
• Fluent in agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, and continuous delivery principles; skilled in optimising development flow and engineering velocity.
• Effective communicator, able to influence across technical, commercial, and executive teams with clarity and credibility.
• Experience managing vendor and outsourcing relationships at both strategic and operational levels.
• Minimum of 10 years in agile product engineering environments, with a consistent track record of delivery and innovation.
• This role is based in our London office. Fluency in English is required.

Desirable

• Familiarity with payment orchestration platforms, acquirer integrations, and identity frameworks for fleet and driver-based services.
• Experience integrating with automotive OEM systems, in-vehicle commerce platforms, or embedded infotainment services.
• Working knowledge of modern authentication flows and standards, such as OAuth2, SSO, and SAML, and secure API gateway patterns.

About Us

Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile, YourParkingSpace and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of components to make cities more livable: smart payments, optimized car parks, data-driven traffic reduction, and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function; it’s about saving time and simplifying travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey—it’s how you Arrive.