Director of Engineering – Core Platforms

About the role

Infina, a leading fintech provider, is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead its Core Platforms team. You will own the technical roadmap, guide the transition from monolith to microservices, and ensure production health while meeting regulatory and security standards.

Key responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams end‑to‑end, covering people, delivery, and production health.
• Own and execute the roadmap for modernising core platforms in partnership with Product and Architecture.
• Shape integration architecture between core systems and drive its implementation across teams.
• Guide incremental migration from monolith to microservices without disrupting critical operations.
• Establish engineering standards such as automated testing, post‑mortems, runbooks, capacity planning, and epic‑level estimation.
• Drive responsible AI‑assisted development under strict security, confidentiality, and code‑review guardrails.
• Ensure delivery complies with regulatory and security requirements.

Required profile

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder‑management and communication skills to align Engineering, Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps.
• Experience building and operating business‑critical, high‑availability systems, preferably in financial services.
• Proven track record of migrating monoliths to microservices while maintaining production stability.
• Ownership of production operations, incident management, root‑cause analysis, and operational discipline.

Required skills

• Java ecosystem (including Spring Boot)
• Redis
• Kafka
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems and event‑driven architecture
• AI‑assisted development workflows