Chief Engineering & AI Platform Leader

CarbonChain; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CarbonChain is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our growing engineering team in London. You will own the technical direction, architecture, quality standards, delivery processes, and the team itself, while balancing speed with the need for auditable, reliable systems.

This leadership role emphasizes strategy over hands-on coding, with a focus on AI-enabled development and enterprise collaboration. You will mentor engineers, shape QA practices, and drive a culture of ownership and customer

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering, including significant…

Responsabilités

• Own technical strategy and decision-making: set the direction for our platform, make and document key technical decisions, and keep engineering aligned with company goals as they evolve
• Steer architectural decisions across our system, from ingestion pipelines and provenance tracking to CBAM data sharing workflows, so that what we build is scalable, reliable, and audit-ready
• Build, coach, and nurture the team through hiring, onboarding, regular 1:1s, career development, and performance management, creating an environment where engineers do their best work and want to stay
• Own quality across engineering by defining our QA strategy, testing approach, and code review practices. You won't review every PR, but you'll make sure reviews are consistent, effective, and uphold our standards
• Build and maintain an engineering process playbook covering how we plan, scope, ship, handle incidents, and learn from retrospectives, and mature it as the team grows without adding unnecessary bureaucracy
• Make sure priorities are well maintained and balanced by working with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and the Carbon Team to agree trade-offs between new features, technical debt, reliability, and customer commitments
• Lead AI adoption in the engineering team, through AI-assisted development, tooling, and workflows, and across the wider business, identifying high-value opportunities and setting sensible guardrails given the sensitivity of customer data
• Act as the face of technology at CarbonChain: join client calls where needed, explain our architecture and data handling to enterprise customers, and support security and procurement conversations
• Partner with the leadership team on headcount planning, engineering budget, tooling, and infrastructure costs
• Champion a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and customer focus, staying comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities while keeping the long-term picture in mind

Description du poste

CarbonChain is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our growing engineering team in London. You will own the technical direction, architecture, quality standards, delivery processes, and the team itself, while balancing speed with the need for auditable, reliable systems.

This leadership role emphasizes strategy over hands-on coding, with a focus on AI-enabled development and enterprise collaboration. You will mentor engineers, shape QA practices, and drive a culture of ownership and customer