Head of Software Engineering

A Head of Software Engineering with a genuine passion for technology, leading teams of teams as well as playing a key part in the delivery of cutting-edge products required asap. Remote working (UK) with once a month in person team collaboration days.

£120-140k base salary, bonus, generous pension, 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), healthcare plus much more on offer. This is initially a 12-18 month fixed term contract

As part of a health tech success story, my client is searching for opportunities to perfect their processes and implement methodologies that help their teams to thrive locally and globally. Microservices, event driven architecture etc. Tech stack here is Java, React, Azure, Microservices, Ci/CD, Scrum etc.

That's where you come in!

As Head of Software Engineering, your job is to make sure the multidisciplinary software engineering teams have everything they need to deliver a fantastic product to customers and clients, and that everyone understands the product roadmap and business objectives. That means aligning architecture and technology roadmaps and ensuring we’re building the right features and capabilities (knowing what good looks like) at the right time.

A seasoned Engineering Manager who has plentiful experience of:

• Managing managers (tech leads and Engineering managers) and therefore management of teams of teams is key.
• Experience of working in high growth fast paced scale up environment.
• Past experience in a hands‑on engineering role and prides themselves on still being technical.
• Excellent communication skills with experience working with all levels of business.
• Background of leading / managing teams of Engineers writing business critical/complex solutions in polyglot / open source languages (Java, Golang, Python etc).
• Managing team capacity, estimation to ensure the team is able to provide an appropriate view of work and suggest potential completion dates.

Look forward to talking this through with you in much more depth.