Head of Engineering

Aix-en-Provence, France

About this role:

ALPHA10X is the AI leader in private markets investments. Our ALPHAcodex analyzes data at scale to shape the knowledge and foresight that generate alpha and impact. The company is a well-funded growth stage startup and aspiring unicorn, rapidly expanding our revenue, customer base, and market presence, while scaling operations, enhancing products, and securing additional funding to further accelerate development. Our team includes prominent business leaders, investors, scholars, and data scientists.

As we scale our user base, we’re strengthening our engineering foundation — reducing latency, increasing service reliability, and elevating code quality and delivery standards. The Head of Engineering will lead this transformation, shaping the architecture, processes, and culture that enable ALPHA10X to scale securely and efficiently.

We are hiring a Head of Engineering to lead and manage ALPHA10X’s software engineering team while driving the evolution of our technology platform. Reporting to the CTO, You’ll shape engineering execution, enable strong technical decisions, and ensure teams deliver predictably and consistently. You’ll guide and develop a team of talented engineers, drive the modernization of our microservices, and embed a culture of technical excellence, code quality, and reliable delivery.

Key responsibilities:‍

  • Collaboration & Leadership: Partner with Product, AI, Data and Solutions to turn business needs into reliable, high-quality services. Facilitate cross-team collaboration and drive a delivery-first culture with clear standards and shared ownership of outcomes.
  • Architecture & Delivery: Guide teams and Staff engineers toward scalable, resilient architectural decisions. Bring clarity to technical trade-offs, ensure alignment across services, and help teams maintain architectural consistency and documentation as we evolve.
  • Engineering Excellence: Ensure teams adopt solid engineering fundamentals: meaningful test coverage, quality gates, healthy release practices, and consistent use of platform-provided CI/CD pathways. Delivery Discipline: Enforce a clear Definition of Done so work is complete, tested, reviewed, and observable before release. Improve planning and estimation discipline to deliver predictably. Align execution with roadmap priorities and quarterly OKRs. Support engineering growth through mentorship, clear expectations, and continuous improvement.
  • Reliability & Observability: Ensure each team owns the reliability of the services they build. Work with Staff engineers to establish clear SLOs, operational readiness, and effective alerting within each domain. Lead incident response and post-mortems to build a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
  • Team Growth & Mentorship: Manage and mentor a team of 6+ engineers. Create clarity, support engineers in making strong technical decisions, and help the team work with focus, predictability, and a high standard of craftsmanship.

What we value:

  • Initiative and curiosity.
  • Unrelenting drive to push the boundaries of AI and software engineering.
  • Low ego because the outcome matters more than who gets the credit.
  • Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, guide, lead, and follow.

What we are looking for:

  • Hard skills
    • Engineering leadership: 10+ years in software engineering with proven ownership of production systems and experience leading small to mid-size engineering teams.
    • Strong technical foundation: able to review designs, challenge assumptions, and guide senior engineers without being the primary implementer.
    • Architectural leadership: Able to evaluate and challenge architectural proposals, guide trade-offs, and ensure consistency across services. Strong enough technical grounding to partner with Staff engineers on design reviews, system evolution, and platform alignment.
    • Collaboration & communication: Comfortable partnering cross-functionally with AI, Data, Product, and Solutions to translate business goals into technical execution.
    • Security & reliability mindset: Ensures teams apply secure coding practices, sound dependency hygiene, and strong operational readiness. Able to assess risks, challenge assumptions, and hold teams to high standards without owning the implementation.
    • Bonus: Experience shipping AI-enabled or search-centric products, or modernizing legacy codebases toward modular, testable architectures.
  • Soft skills
    • Player‑coach mindset; leads by example and elevates others.
    • Clear, concise communication; converts strategy into executable plans.
    • Bias for action and pragmatic problem‑solving in a fast‑moving environment.

Why join us?

  • Innovation: Play a key role in advancing the capabilities of AI in fintech, working with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
  • Leadership: As part of the future shaping team, you will have a direct impact on the company's growth and strategic direction.
  • Growth Opportunities: Join a fast-paced, high-growth startup with significant equity participation and potential for personal and professional advancement.
  • Global Impact: Be part of a team that connects people, capital, and ideas to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges through AI-driven financial solutions.

‍To apply, please email: hr@alpha10x.com

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