Head of Engineering

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is helping you find a lead role at a fast-growing Series A analytics company. You’ll head a dozen engineers, stay hands-on, and drive velocity while making quick architecture and security calls. You’ll own developer experience, tooling, and reliability, shipping rapidly in an open-source environment.

You’ll balance speed with quality, coaching teams, and delivering product iterations with strong emphasis on observability and performance.

Qualifications

• Led engineers in a fast-moving startup or scaleup as Head of Engineering or tech lead.
• Delivered a product from 0 to 1 or through hyper-growth with rapid decisions.
• Strong architecture instincts and security knowledge to cut complexity.
• Treat developer experience as the main lever on team speed with tooling.
• Own monitoring, observability and performance as part of shipping fast.

Responsibilities

• Coach and unblock engineers daily, fostering extreme team velocity.
• Make rapid architecture and security decisions that cut complexity.
• Own the developer experience, tooling, and workflows that define how fast the team can move.
• Stay hands-on, contributing code and driving product delivery in an open-source environment.
• Own reliability and SLAs, balancing trust with a mandate for rapid iteration and shipping.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product growth

Architecture & security

Dev experience

Observability

Job description

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

Dex is an AI recruiter agent that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex your stack, seniority, and what you want to build. We will manage your applications and surface other opportunities that are a fit.

The role

This Series A company builds an open-source analytics platform. They help data teams manage metrics as code, turning a dbt project into a full BI solution. The result: everyone in the business gets self-serve analytics. They're backed by leading investors and growing fast.

You’ll lead a dozen engineers, working alongside the CTO. This isn’t a pure management role; you’ll still be hands‑on, shipping code. Your mandate is velocity: coaching, unblocking, making quick architecture and security calls. You’ll own developer experience and tooling, setting the pace for the entire team. Expect to ship fast, learn faster, and own reliability in public.

The work

• Coach and unblock engineers daily, fostering extreme team velocity.
• Make rapid architecture and security decisions that cut complexity, not add process.
• Own the developer experience, tooling, and workflows that define how fast the team can move.
• Stay hands‑on, contributing code and driving product delivery in an open-source environment.
• Own reliability and SLAs, balancing trust with a mandate for rapid iteration and shipping.

What You Bring

• You’ve led engineers in a fast‑moving startup or scaleup, as a Head of Engineering, EM, founder, or tech lead, and you’ve stayed hands‑on.
• You’ve taken a product from 0 to 1 or through hyper‑growth, making imperfect decisions quickly.
• You have strong architecture instincts and solid security knowledge, using them to cut complexity.
• You treat developer experience as the main lever on team speed, and you’ve built the tooling and workflows that prove it.
• You own monitoring, observability, and performance as part of shipping fast, not as a later cleanup.