Head of Engineering - SaaS

JR United Kingdom; Guildford; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a cutting-edge SaaS company as Head of Engineering, where you'll lead a cross-disciplinary team and shape engineering strategy. You’ll be responsible for driving innovation, ensuring quality delivery, and fostering a collaborative culture aimed at continuous improvement. This remote-first role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to impact the future of technology.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Pension

Private medical

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Over 5 years in senior engineering roles leading teams of 15+.
• Strong understanding of software development and architecture.
• Proven ability in mentoring and coaching distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute an engineering roadmap aligned with goals.
• Inspire and develop managers and ICs across multiple locations.
• Embed standards in architecture, testing, and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Team building

Commercial awareness

Operations management

Tools

PHP

Python

React

AWS

Job description

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Pipped is recruiting on behalf of an innovative, high-growth client in the SaaS sector.

Location: UK (remote-first with occasional team meet-ups)

Why this role?

Our client is scaling rapidly and needs an accomplished Head of Engineering to steer a 30-strong, cross-disciplinary team through its next phase of growth. You’ll shape engineering strategy, champion best practice and deliver products that delight thousands of customers - without having to write production code yourself.

Current stack: PHP, Python, React, AWS (serverless & containerised environments).

What you’ll own

• Strategy & Vision – Define and execute an engineering roadmap fully aligned with product and commercial goals.
• Leadership – Inspire, mentor and develop managers and ICs across multiple locations; build succession and hiring plans.
• Delivery – Partner with Product, Design and CX to ship high-impact features on time and to quality.
• Excellence & Scale – Embed robust standards in architecture, testing, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure so the platform scales effortlessly.
• Culture & Performance – Foster a culture of innovation, accountability and continuous improvement; set and track meaningful KPIs.
• Resources & Budget – Own head-count planning, vendor management and engineering budgets.

What we’re looking for

• Leadership depth – 5 + years in senior engineering roles leading teams of 15 + (ideally 30 +) in fast-paced SaaS or tech environments.
• Technical breadth – Sound understanding of modern software development and distributed system architecture (hands-on coding not required). Familiarity with PHP, Python, React and AWS is advantageous.
• People focus – Proven ability to coach, motivate and retain high-performing, cross-functional and distributed teams.
• Commercial mindset – Comfortable balancing technical trade-offs with business priorities and communicating at C-suite level.
• Operational rigour – Track record of introducing scalable processes, metrics and best-practice engineering standards.

Bonus points for: exposure to event-tech or similar real-time, high-availability platforms.

The offer

• Influence and autonomy to shape a modern engineering organisation.
• Collaborative culture that values innovation, learning and clear outcomes.
• Competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, private medical and flexible working.

Ready to accelerate your leadership career with a cutting-edge SaaS company?

Apply via Pipped or message us directly for a confidential chat.