Vice President of Software Engineering

fierlo
London
1 day ago
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VP of Engineeringrequired. Reporting directly to the Founder and CEO, you will play a critical role in shaping the technological direction of the business, driving innovation, and scaling our engineering function to support their ambitious growth objectives.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a talented engineering team, take ownership of strategic and operational engineering initiatives, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Data Science, Product, and the broader leadership team. In addition to strategic leadership, this role requires someone who is happy to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the day-to-day activities, whether it’s solving complex technical challenges or supporting the team in delivering key projects.

Role:

  • Ownership of technology roadmap to support product development, scalability, and innovation
  • Engineering Team Leadership: Lead a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation
  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the engineering strategy to align with the company’s vision and growth goals working in tandem with founders and the rest of the leadership team.
  • Hands-On Leadership: Be comfortable working at both a strategic level and actively engaging in day-to-day technical challenges and project execution.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with the Data Science, Product, and Leadership teams to ensure alignment between technical development and business objectives.
  • Technical Excellence: Drive best practices in software development, architecture, and delivery, ensuring high-quality and scalable solutions.
  • Ownership of our security certifications, ensuring all necessary controls, policies, and procedures are in place to meet the requirements.

What is required:

  • Proven experience as a VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or similar senior leadership role, ideally within a high-performance culture at a SaaS or product-driven company.
  • A strong technical background with experience in data-intensive distributed systems in the cloud environment.
  • Experience in the design and architecture of data infrastructure for AI products.
  • Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems.

Nice To Haves:

  • Hands-on experience with machine learning and AI.
  • Hands-on software engineering experience with Ruby or Python.
  • Experience within Enterprise SaaS.
  • Experience building analytical products with data visualization.

Tech-Stack:

  • Cloud infrastructure in GCP managed by Terraform.
  • Frontend: Typescript, React.

Diversity & Inclusion

They want to enable exceptional experiences for everyone, and to achieve this they need everyone’s voice in their team. They are on a mission to bring more diversity into the business in 2023 and to give everyone (from all backgrounds and abilities) a chance to join them, even if they may not fit all of the requirements set out in this job spec. They realize that some may be hesitant to apply for a role when they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements – They believe in potential and will happily consider all applications based on the skills and experience you have.

Send us along your CV for consideration on this excellent opportunity now.

Seniority level

  • Director

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology
  • Industries: Technology, Information and Media

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