Head of Engineering

Permanent
· Full time
· Engineering
· Rotageek
Hybrid working
· UK based, primarily London, with around two to three days a week in the office
Reports to the CTO

Rotageek builds workforce-management software that helps organisations schedule the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

Our product supports enterprise operators across retail, hospitality, distribution and healthcare, managing demand-driven scheduling, time and attendance, leave and labour-cost optimisation across thousands of locations.

We work on complex operational problems where forecasting informs planning, planning drives time tracking, and time tracking feeds payroll. The decisions we make have real consequences for customers, their people and their costs.

Rotageek is part of the ELMO group, with engineering capability across the UK and Australia.

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to own Rotageek engineering end-to-end.

You will lead through an established Squad Leadership layer across product-delivery squads, Intelligence and Insights, data-science optimisation, and platform, Dev Ops and support. You will turn direction into delivery: setting clear commitments, building the operating rhythm that closes them, and making sure the function reports honestly on its progress.

This is an execution-focused leadership role. We are looking for someone who sets hard dates and hits them, leads with meaningful numbers, holds their position with senior stakeholders, and creates real accountability through their leadership team.

That means building the instrumentation, activation and self-serve capability needed for the next stage of the product, while keeping the commercial organisation fully supported in the sales-led motion that funds the transition.

The engineering organisation is moving towards an AI-native, domain-driven squad model. Squads will own their domains; you will make sure the boundaries are clear, the standards are consistent and the outcomes are delivered.

• Own the Rotageek engineering function, including delivery, operational health, quality, security, cost, capability and headcount.

• Lead and develop the Squad Leadership layer, hiring well, managing performance directly and giving squad leaders the authority to make decisions while holding them accountable for outcomes.

• Establish a delivery cadence that makes commitments, forecasts, risks, dependencies and closure visible across the function. When a date is at risk, surface it early with options.

• Deliver the committed roadmap of customer-facing integrations, product work and platform programmes, including the migration from Azure to AWS.

• Set and enforce the engineering standard across squads: testing, code review, security scanning, release readiness, progressive rollout and rollback, production ownership and on-call.

• Build the operational measurement layer for engineering, covering delivery predictability, cycle time, deployment pace, change failure and recovery, incident and support ageing, escaped defects, quality-gate compliance and cloud cost per tenant.

• Own engineering budget execution across headcount, contractors, vendors, tooling and cloud run-rate, with clear forecasts and managed variances.

• Own the incident and support operating models, including severity classification, escalation, major-incident communication, root-cause reviews, L2/L3 support and action tracking through to closure.

• Set the engineering agenda behind product-led growth: product instrumentation, event models, activation and adoption measurement, expansion signals and self-serve capability.

• Shape domain-driven squads with clear ownership, contracts and interfaces, and resolve the systemic technical problems that repeatedly slow delivery or…