Vice President of Engineering, Kody
+ Participation in company equity or incentive plans
Agentic commerce platform
Be an early applicant
Agentic commerce platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Participation in company equity or incentive plans
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring the ease and optionality of online payments to brick and mortar businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 10-15 year experience in engineer leadership roles, ideally within fintech, SaaS, or tech-enabled services
- 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
Recently, fintech innovators have been pushing to try and make brick-and-mortar commerce competitively seamless with online shopping. One area of focus is payments: how to offer them fast, directly and hassle-free. Kody is here to solve this issue for the hospitality sector.
Kody offers hospitality businesses an agentic commerce platform with embedded payments, which delivers a radically simpler and more cost-effective means of managing payments. Although there is competition in the space, Kody's all-in-one proposition gives it a vital edge.
With its comprehensive offering, Kody seeks to displace legacy POS providers. Strong funding supports it in this goal, enabling the company to pursue further development of its platform and the broadening of its reach.
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 & Founder)A Cambridge grad who went on to found IIC Holdings and VC firm Nerd Ventures.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 7 more jobs at Kody