Head of Engineering - Java & Real-Time Data Platform

Energy Jobline CVL; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Remote; GBP 175,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a VP of Engineering for its Java-based open-source data infrastructure platform. You will own the engineering direction, scale a 40-person team, and report into executive leadership while maintaining hands-on technical depth in distributed systems and JVM performance.

You will guide architecture, delivery milestones, and priority setting, balancing technical depth with leadership decisions in a remote-first UK environment.

Qualifications

• Architectural leadership with hands-on technical depth in distributed systems
• Experience scaling teams to 40+ engineers and multiple managers
• Proven contributions to open source Java projects and conference talks

Responsibilities

• Own engineering direction and execution for a high-growth platform
• Lead a mid-to-big sized engineering org and make headcount decisions
• Deliver on commitments with a track record of shipping against plans

Skills

Distributed systems

Low-latency engineering

JVM performance

Stream processing

Storage internals

Tools

Java

Job description

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a VP of Engineering for its Java-based open-source data infrastructure platform. You will own the engineering direction, scale a 40-person team, and report into executive leadership while maintaining hands-on technical depth in distributed systems and JVM performance.

You will guide architecture, delivery milestones, and priority setting, balancing technical depth with leadership decisions in a remote-first UK environment.