Director of Platform & Real-Time Engineering – London Hub

Wheely; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in West London

Stock options

Private medical insurance

Life cover

MacBook Pro

4k display

Remote day each week

Cycle to Work scheme

Professional development stipend

Relocation & visa sponsorship

Job summary

The company is rebuilding its backend platform to be the fastest and most reliable ride-hailing system, with a focus on real-time guarantees and privacy as a product. You will lead a small senior team, shape the London engineering hub, and define what work belongs where across Cyprus and London.

You will inherit a mostly-Go codebase and be part of a strategy to outperform traditional monoliths by embracing microservices or other future designs, while ensuring robust real-time performance under

Qualifications

• Designed backend systems from scratch, with trade-offs explained in interviews.
• Real-time systems experience at consumer scale.
• Several years of managing engineers with hiring and firing decisions defended in detail.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the platform end to end, including architectural decisions.
• Make real-time work, end to end, especially the driver app under adversarial network conditions.
• Lead the privacy story on the engineering side and data flow differentiation.

Skills

Backend design

Real-time systems

Engineering leadership

Hiring & team growth

Go

Tools

Go

Job description

The company is rebuilding its backend platform to be the fastest and most reliable ride-hailing system, with a focus on real-time guarantees and privacy as a product. You will lead a small senior team, shape the London engineering hub, and define what work belongs where across Cyprus and London.

You will inherit a mostly-Go codebase and be part of a strategy to outperform traditional monoliths by embracing microservices or other future designs, while ensuring robust real-time performance under