Director of Engineering

Director of Platform Engineering | £150,000–£160,000 | Fully Remote (UK)

I'm working with a high-growth, established SaaS organisation looking to appoint a Director of Platform Engineering to lead a significant engineering function and play a key role in its next phase of growth.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who combines strong technical credibility with commercial awareness, organisational leadership and a track record of delivering engineering transformation at scale.

Working closely with the VP of Platform, you'll take responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of a platform engineering function, overseeing approximately 15 engineers through an established management structure.

Your focus will include:

• Leading and developing engineering managers across software engineering, platform engineering and infrastructure.
• Translating platform strategy into clear delivery plans, improving engineering performance, accountability and predictability.
• Driving improvements in developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD and platform capabilities.
• Overseeing significant AWS infrastructure investment, balancing technical priorities with commercial objectives.
• Working closely with senior product and engineering stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities support business growth.
• Providing architectural direction and technical leadership across a complex, high-traffic SaaS environment.

• Proven Director/Head of Engineering experience, leading multiple engineering teams and managers.
• Leadership experience spanning both software engineering and infrastructure/platform engineering.
• Experience operating large-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms with millions of users and significant transaction volumes.
• Strong AWS expertise, including ownership of substantial cloud infrastructure budgets.
• Experience improving engineering delivery, organisational structures and developer productivity.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Fully remote within the UK

Significant leadership autonomy and influence

This isn't simply a technical leadership position. It's an opportunity to shape how a large-scale engineering organisation operates, delivers and evolves.