Odin
Odin
Odin is a venture capital operations platform for angel syndicates, fund managers, and founders. It helps users create and manage special purpose vehicles (SPVs), coordinate investor communications, organize legal and tax documentation, and deploy capital online. The platform also supports cap table management and investor roll-ups to simplify governance. Odin operates under Talbot Capital Limited and serves global transactions in EUR, GBP, and USD within its finance, legal, and consulting focus.

Head of Engineering – London Hybrid

Lead Odin’s engineering function as it scales a private-markets investment infrastructure platform. Combine hands-on technical leadership with team growth, operational reliability, hiring, and AI-enabled productivity.

Description

  • Lead engineering delivery and define what the team builds and how it works
  • Remain hands-on in the codebase for roughly half the role, owning features and complex technical decisions
  • Set and maintain standards for code quality, testing, reviews, documentation, post-mortems, and on-call practices
  • Provide candid technical performance feedback and make challenging performance calls
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers as the team expands from six to approximately 15–20 people
  • Turn individual productivity improvements from AI into measurable customer impact across the team
  • Build disciplined root-cause analysis, pre-mortems, on-call, and incident-response practices
  • Ensure products are developed and released with consistent speed and reliability
  • Act as the engineering partner for banking, KYC, custodians, and vendor diligence
  • Evaluate build-versus-buy choices
  • Join live interviews and technical discussions, with final hiring stages held in person

Requirements

  • Bring high agency, initiative, curiosity, directness, and impatience with slow delivery
  • Be a committed builder who continues to write code and takes on difficult technical problems
  • Demonstrate deep technical expertise and the ability to lead as the strongest engineer in the room
  • Have built engineering organizations as a founder, CTO, Head of Engineering, or engineering leader
  • Give precise, direct technical feedback and make difficult performance decisions
  • Know how to hire, onboard, and grow engineering talent
  • Assess engineering choices through the lens of customer impact
  • Apply pragmatic risk judgment, particularly when money or compliance is involved
  • Adapt communication effectively for engineers, product teams, leadership, and founders
  • Work effectively with banking, KYC, custodians, and vendor relationships
  • Have the right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship

Benefits

  • Private health insurance through Vitality
  • Paid sick leave, including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments
  • Access to Spill mental health support
  • £1,000 yearly allowance for health, therapy, or fitness
  • Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, and partner leave
  • 4% employer pension contribution with salary-sacrifice options
  • 25 days of annual leave, two wellness days, and flexible bank holidays, for 33 days in total
  • Work from anywhere in the world for up to six weeks each year
  • One additional day of leave for your birthday
  • Equity options

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