Engineering Leader (VPE/CTO)

Kernel; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing technology firm is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to join its leadership team in London. You will play a key role in aligning engineering capabilities with commercial goals and driving automation to facilitate scaling. This is an opportunity to shape the technology strategy and lead a dynamic engineering team, ensuring the company stays ahead of the curve as it grows.

Benefits

Working directly with the founding team

Free dinner when working past 6 pm

Equity: Option grant on employee-friendly terms

Ability to work abroad for 2 weeks a year

Regular team and company-wide celebrations

Enhanced Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in architecting enterprise-level systems.
• Experience at high-growth businesses or startups.
• Previous leadership in engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with product and commercial teams to align technology strategy.
• Lead the engineering team to maximize impact.
• Evaluate infrastructure and roadmap direction.

Skills

Analytical

Leadership

Proactivity

Job description

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• You have extensive experience in architecting enterprise-level systems, delivering on ambitious product visions, and building world class engineering teams.
• You have worked at high-growth businesses, and might have previously started your own company.
• You are highly analytical, and thinking proactively through the implications of your decisions, but also have high conviction and understand the importance of moving at pace and shipping often.
• You have previously led engineering at a company from its earliest stages, and don’t shy away from the manager role - you know what great looks like, and want to help engineers grow.
• You are excited to participate in cross-functional conversations about go-to-market, hiring and strategy.

The challenge

As we scale, our technology must keep up alongside our commercial progress. To date, our biggest challenge has been that customisation is part of our value proposition. We have solved this challenge by:

• Doing things manually to understand the nuances of the data we collect (we have a Product Ops team focused on this).
• Thinking about scalable ways to collect data whilst allowing for customisation. For example, all our customers use job post data, but what they want from job posts vary.

The opportunity

We are in the unique situation that our commercial traction is ahead of our product. You’ll play a leading role in moving towards automation in a way that enables us to rapidly scale with increased complexity and specific customer nuances.

You’ll report to our Co-founder and CEO Anders and be part of the leadership team.

To achieve this, you will be:

• Coordinating with our product and commercial teams to make sure our technology strategy, architecture, and teams are aligned to our goals.
• Leading the engineering team, and enabling them to do their most impactful work.
• Evaluating and influencing our infrastructure and roadmap direction.

Team

We are currently 15 people with 3 people in engineering and 1 Product Manager, specifically

• Sam Houghton, Founding Engineer
• David Saltares, Sr Engineer

We value the pace in-person work gives at this early stage. We expect our engineering leader to be work from the office at least 4 days per week, with some flexibility.

Company Benefits

• Working directly with the founding team
• Free dinner when working past 6 pm
• Equity: Option grant on employee-friendly terms
• Ability to work abroad for 2-weeks a year + flexibility during the working week for appointments (or anything else)
• Regular team, office, and company-wide celebrations
• Enhanced Parental Leave

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Software Development

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