Head of Engineering

London | In-office (5 days per week)
Up to £200k base
$160k equity over 4 years (annual vesting)
Catered meals · Gym · Private healthcare

Backed Founders · Serious Ambition

A company built to scale, with equity that genuinely matters.

The Company

You’ll join a fast-scaling, product-first technology company transforming how enterprises operate with AI. Following a major Series A, the company is now focused on building an elite engineering organization to scale mission-critical systems across backend, ML, and infrastructure.

This is a founder-led, high-velocity environment where engineers have direct impact on products used by demanding enterprise customers. Decisions are fast, ownership is high, and the technical bar is exceptional.

The Role

We’re hiring a Head of Engineering to lead and scale the engineering organization during a period of hypergrowth. You’ll report directly to the CTO and be responsible for building a high-performing team while maintaining technical excellence and culture.

You’ll balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, shaping engineering priorities, architecture, and processes, while mentoring engineers and defining long-term technical vision.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and scale engineering across backend, ML, and infrastructure teams.
• Own the end-to-end hiring process: define roles, recruit, interview, and close top talent.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, code review standards, testing, documentation, and deployment processes.
• Set priorities and roadmap in collaboration with CTO, product, and business stakeholders.
• Conduct technical code reviews and provide mentorship to engineers at all levels.
• Drive architecture decisions and technical strategy to ensure scalable, robust, and compliant systems.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture of ownership, quality, and innovation.
• Implement agile processes to enable rapid, reliable delivery.
• Manage team performance through regular 1-on-1s, feedback, and career development.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and security standards across engineering practices.
• Contribute hands-on to critical technical challenges as needed.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3–5 years in leadership roles (Manager, Director, VP).
• Proven track record of scaling engineering teams (e.g., 10–40+ engineers) in fast-growing startups or scale-ups.
• Strong technical credibility: full-stack, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Experience establishing engineering best practices, processes, and culture at scale.
• Hands-on ability to conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to critical technical decisions.
• Experience shipping products rapidly while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Familiarity with AI/ML systems and collaborating with AI teams is a strong plus.
• Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, or similar) preferred.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

The Setup

This is a high-intensity, high-ownership role:

• 12 hours a day, 5 days per week, in the office.
• Direct collaboration with founders and executive leadership.
• Small, elite, high-performing team.
• No slow approvals, full responsibility for team and systems.

The goal is acceleration:

• Faster decisions.
• Faster feedback.
• Faster engineering impact.

If flexibility is your priority, this isn’t the role.
If building teams, shaping culture, and leaving a technical legacy matter, it could be perfect.

Why Apply

You’ll join at a point where your leadership will define the company’s technical foundation and culture. If you’re ready to scale teams, solve critical engineering challenges, and work alongside exceptional founders and engineers, this is a rare opportunity.

Apply if you’re prepared to take responsibility for building and leading a world-class engineering organization from the ground up.