Relai is Europe's leading Bitcoin-only app and we're looking for a Head of Technology to help us ship bug-free, high-quality features across mobile and backend.
You'll leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to support, mentor, and drive alignment within our engineering team. This role is ideal for a tech leader who thrives in dynamic startup environments and is eager to shape the future of Bitcoin at scale.
What You'll Do
You'll leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to support, mentor, and drive alignment within our engineering team. This role is ideal for a tech leader who thrives in dynamic startup environments and is eager to shape the future of Bitcoin at scale.
What You'll Do
- Lead, coach, and support the engineering team
- Collaborate closely with the CTO to drive strategic technical initiatives and ensure alignment between engineering execution and company goals.
- Translate product and business goals into scalable and efficient technical solutions
- Ensure high-quality delivery, engineering performance, and reliability across the stack
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative engineering culture
- Collaborate closely with the Product team to plan, scope, and prioritize work
- Help define and evolve our technical strategy as we scale
- 5+ years of experience in Engineering Management
- 3+ years of experience in tech leadership role (e.g. Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Head of Engineering) in fintech startups.
- Proven background as a software engineer (you've been hands-on before, even if you're not coding today)
- Strong track record leading engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments
- Solid understanding of backend systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and product engineering
- Excellent communication and leadership skills – you lead by influence, not authority
- Bonus: experience with Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies or wallets.
- 100% remote work – Join a fully remote, flexible team working across Europe.
- Relai provides you with the latest MacBook laptop and an iPhone to ensure smooth and effective work.
- Competitive salary + employee participation – We grow together.
- 0% fees on Bitcoin purchases at Relai – stack sats effortlessly.
- Meaningful perks – Blinkist, Spotify, and Netflix subscriptions on us.