Head of Engineering - Billing

Team: Leadership

Location: Tokyo

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

🚀 What you’ll own

• Lead an engineering team of roughly 40 engineers across 4 squads located around the globe with almost complete independence.
• Directly manage 4+ leads and build an impeccably strong leadership layer below you.
• Optimise ways of working and drive high performance, optimising for efficiency, velocity, and team happiness.
• Build strong relationships with other leaders within and around Financials to facilitate strong collaboration.
• Capacity planning, hiring planning, and interviewing so that we’re consistently raising the bar and bringing on the right people.
• Roll out global strategic objectives within the team, supporting the team through change, building trust, and managing expectations.
• Work closely with the Head of Engineering community and Senior Management to define global strategic direction and objectives, advocating on behalf of the team and their needs.
• Drive operational excellence, reducing incidents in production and time to mitigation through quality and ownership.
• Become an expert in the Billing products and drive the team to build an accurate, reliable, cohesive product.

🧠 What you bring to the party

We are seeking an experienced leader who has successfully led other engineering leaders at scale - this is not a first-time leader-of-leaders opportunity. You won't be hands-on coding for this role; instead, you will bring deep systems thinking, a strong understanding of software architecture, and the ability to quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of complex technical environments.
• Proven experience leading large high-performance teams and driving engineering excellence.
• Proven experience of developing strong leaders and positively impacting teams through them.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• The ability to operate largely independently and make decisions that are in the best interests of Kraken.
• A strong sense of delivery and product - how to balance speed, quality, and competing priorities to hit deadlines while building out a solid cohesive product that will serve us in the future.