AI/ML/Tech
Role: Head of Engineering
Company: xpate https://xpate.com
Location: London or remote
Job Type: Full-time
About xpate
xpate has been a card acquirer since 2019. It combines acquiring and banking for B2B clients only, with €100M+ in annual revenue. About 100 people work there, around 15 of them in engineering. HQ is in London, and the team is spread across Latvia, Cyprus, Serbia and Singapore.
The business is changing. xpate is moving from direct sales to distribution through platforms and partners: embedded finance and Payfac-as-a-Service. The platform has to change with it. Tooling, data flow, processes and the release cycle all need a rebuild, and much of the workflow is still tracked by hand.
xpate also wants to become AI-native. Guardrails go around the core – the data layer and financial data – so it can’t be lost, rewritten or broken. Everything else runs through an agentic harness on top, so non-engineering teams can build their own tools by prompting agents.
What you will do
- Lead the platform and organizational transformation from the inside, together with the current team.
- Own the whole technical picture: infrastructure, architecture and vendors.
- Replace the traditional PM → engineer handoff. Test the idea that engineering and product can work as one, with engineers talking directly to the business and domain experts.
- Move code writing to LLMs with automated QA. Start where mistakes are cheap and reach the critical financial components later.
- Hire engineers who talk to people and ask questions, not only write code. You can bring in 1–2