Vice President of Engineering, KodyPay
+ Equity or incentive plans
5 days a week in office
POS platform and payment aggregator
Open for applications
POS platform and payment aggregator
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity or incentive plans
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring online payments to brick & mortar businesses
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading engineering teams at high-growth tech companies or scale-ups (ideally in fintech or related industries)
- Deep technical expertise across modern architectures and cloud-based platforms
- Strong track record of managing and growing high-performing, distributed engineering teams
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Passion for building secure, scalable, and customer-centric platforms
- Hands-on experience with agile development, DevOps culture, and continuous delivery pipelines
- Strong business acumen and the ability to align engineering strategy with overall company objectives
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thriving in fast-paced, evolving environments
What the job involves
- Kody is scaling rapidly, and we’re looking for an exceptional VP of Engineering to lead our technical organisation through the next phase of growth. As a key member of the executive team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering strategy, culture, and execution. This is a role for someone who thrives in a high velocity, global and purpose driven environment
- As VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing engineering organisation aligned with Kody’s values and mission. You’ll define the technical vision, guide architectural decisions and ensure the delivery of scalable, secure and reliable platforms and products. You’ll work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Operations to bring our roadmap to life while fostering a strong engineering culture rooted in technical excellence and continuous improvement
- Lead the recruitment, development, and retention of a world-class engineering team
- Setting and executing the engineering vision and technical direction in partnership with executive and product leadership
- Defining and delivering engineering strategy that enables scalable and secure growth of Kody’s platform and services
- Drive engineering execution to ensure timely, high-quality delivery across all teams
- Establish and monitor KPIs to track performance, code quality, system stability and deployment efficiency
- Promote a culture of feedback, mentorship and career development through structured reviews and ongoing coaching
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Operations to align on priorities and roadmap planning
- Champion modern development practices including CI/CD, testing, observability, and agile methodologies
- Oversee architectural planning and ensure sound technical decision-making across backend, frontend, and infrastructure
- Manage engineering budgets, headcount planning and resource allocation in alignment with company goals
- Advocate for engineering needs and priorities at the leadership level, balancing business goals and technical feasibility
- Maintain and evolve onboarding processes, documentation, and workflows to support rapid team scaling
- Embed data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance into the Engineering culture
Our take
Over recent years fintech innovators have been pushing to try and make brick-and-mortar commerce competitively seamless with online shopping. An area of particular focus is payments: how to offer them fast, directly, and hassle-free. KodyPay is one company trying to solve this issue for the hospitality sector.
Kodypay offers hospitality businesses a complete payments solution that aggregates QR, terminal and third party delivery services. By marketing itself as a sole payments provider, KodyPay seeks to displace legacy terminal providers, as well as providing QR web flow products. As such KodyPay offers its customers a simpler and more cost effective means of managing payments.
Sunday, Zapper, Droplet, and FlyPay are among the many companies offering similar services with strong uptake and healthy funding, but KodyPay's all-in-one proposition gives it a vital edge. This is exemplified by healthy Series A funding awarded to KodyPay in 2024 that comes off the back of a reported annualised processing volume nearing $1billion in value.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $31m
Company benefits
- 25 days of holiday per year that increases to 27 after two years of service
- +1 bonus day per year to be taken on an occasion of your choosing
- Remote first and flexible working, with an option to work from our office in a WeWork in Shoreditch (completely optional)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- £1,000 annual learning and development allowance
- £200 once-off budget to make your home office set-up comfy
- Work from abroad for part of the year (subject to tax laws and customer needs)
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Yoyo Chang
(CEO & Co-Founder)A Cambridge grad who went on to found IIC Holdings and VC firm Nerd Ventures.
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