Head of Software Engineering

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Head of Software Engineering to lead their technical strategy and engineering team. This role is pivotal in developing scalable AI-driven solutions for regulatory navigation. You will oversee the tech stack, drive product development, and establish best practices in software and data engineering. Ideal candidates will have a startup mindset, deep technical leadership in ML and AI, and experience in building cloud-based platforms. Join this dynamic environment where your contributions will shape the future of regulatory technology and make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building AI-powered B2B SaaS products.
• Expertise in ML, NLP, and scalable architectures.
• Strong leadership and ownership mentality.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a scalable, AI-powered SaaS platform.
• Lead AI & Data Science integration for intelligent automation.
• Manage and mentor a high-performing engineering team.

Skills

ML

NLP

Data Engineering

Cloud Computing

Software Development

AI/ML Frameworks

B2B SaaS

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

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Posted: 05.05.2025

Expiry Date: 19.06.2025

Job Description:

As Head of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for shaping and executing our technical strategy, leading a high-performing engineering team, and driving product development across software engineering, data engineering, and AI. This role is critical to ensuring that RegNav AI builds scalable, secure, and intelligent solutions that power the next generation of regulatory navigation.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the tech stack and architecture: Design and implement a scalable, AI-powered SaaS platform
• Leading AI & Data Science integration: Work with ML engineers and Applied AI engineers to build intelligent automation, predictive models, and NLP-driven insights
• Leading and growing the engineering team: Direct and mentor a multi-disciplinary team, driving a high-performance culture
• Driving architectural decisions: To ensure scalability, security, and performance
• Defining systems and processes: To successfully execute the product roadmap
• Establishing best practices: for software development, data infrastructure, and AI/ML implementation
• Overseeing operational aspects of software development process: to ensure effective workflows across developers
• Moving fast and shipping high quality code: Balance speed and quality in an agile, early-stage environment
• Managing and conducting code reviews: to maintain high code quality, implement and enforce testing best practices for the software
• Ensuring high-quality software: through modern DevOps, CI/CD, and testing practices
• Collaborating with leadership and team: work closely with product, design and compliance experts to build AI driven decision support for complex regulations
• Being hands on: Guide system architecture, AI model deployment, and data pipelines in addition to demonstrating strong coding skills
• Staying ahead of emerging technologies: in AI, data engineering, and software development

Qualifications:

• Startup mindset: Comfortable in ambiguity, resourceful, and execution-driven.
• B2B SaaS & AI experience: Proven track record in building AI powered B2B SaaS products from Seed to Series A+
• Deep technical leadership: Expertise in ML, NLP, Data Engineering, cloud computing, and scalable architectures
• Ownership mentality: You think like a founder and care about outcomes, not just code
• Strong expertise: in software development, data engineering, and AI/ML
• Experience building scalable cloud-based platforms: (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Knowledge of AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and data technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Spark)

Company Background:

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection, and certification businesses in the world. With over 9,000 employees across 270 sites in 30 countries, we aim to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

We support customers from R&D to complex regulatory approvals and production, ensuring product safety, compliance, and quality.

At Element, we foster a collaborative environment that empowers career growth and values integrity and excellence.

Diversity Statement:

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunity employment regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics.

We prohibit discrimination and ensure confidentiality regarding compensation discussions, in accordance with applicable laws.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please email [emailprotected].