Head of Engineering

What You'll Be Doing

You'll take ownership of the engineering organisation, creating the structure, processes and standards required to maintain a high level of execution as the business scales.

• Setting clear engineering goals and creating accountability around delivery and execution.
• Establishing and tracking metrics around engineering productivity, reliability and software quality.
• Improving release health and reducing regressions, incidents and recurring technical issues.
• Establishing consistent engineering practices, architectural standards and development processes.
• Working closely with the CTO on the technical roadmap and major architectural initiatives.
• Helping lead a significant technology migration while ensuring changes are delivered incrementally and safely.
• Taking ownership of complex technical escalations with enterprise customers.
• Assessing future engineering capacity and building out the hiring plan as the team grows.
• Hiring exceptional engineers while maintaining a high technical bar.

We're looking for an experienced engineering leader who has operated successfully in a fast-moving startup or scale-up environment.

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering or senior engineering leader.
• A track record of managing and delivering through engineering teams.
• Experience introducing engineering metrics and using data to improve productivity, reliability and delivery.
• A strong understanding of software quality, release processes and incident management.
• Experience leading postmortems and implementing changes that prevent recurring issues.
• A track record of improving engineering processes and delivery performance.
• Experience setting goals and creating accountability within engineering teams.
• Confidence working directly with enterprise customers during complex technical escalations.
• Experience building engineering teams and owning hiring plans.
• A strong technical foundation, either through a Computer Science/Engineering degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience working with evolving architecture, technical debt and large-scale technical change.
• Experience leading or contributing to significant rewrites, migrations or architectural transformations.

• Experience scaling an engineering organisation through rapid growth.
• Experience with in AI, developer tooling, infrastructure or SaaS.
• Experience with Rust or other large-scale technology migrations.

This is an opportunity to take genuine ownership of an engineering organisation at a company operating at the intersection of AI, developer infrastructure.

You’ll work directly with the founder/CTO and have significant influence over how the engineering function develops, rather than operating several layers removed from technical decision-making.

The technical challenges are substantial, with a large number of integrations to maintain, new AI models and technologies arriving constantly, and significant architectural work already underway.

Competitive salary, equity and health, dental and vision benefits.