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VP of Engineering

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

VP of Engineering at Mojo Mortgages

Full time - Hybrid (occasional attendance to the London office)

About Mojo

At RVU, we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know-how, technology, and backing of a well-established company. Our mission is to empower people to make confident financial decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, and Money.co.uk, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world-class online experience for them. We're proud to be recruiting a VP of Engineering for our Mojo Mortgages brand.

Mojo Mortgages is at the forefront of digital mortgage brokering, leveraging innovative technology to simplify and streamline the home financing journey. We're passionate about removing the complexity from mortgages and putting customers in control. Having already helped thousands find their perfect mortgage, we're continuously growing our team to scale our impact and redefine the industry standard.

The Role

Your role will encompass a diverse array of responsibilities, from setting strategic direction for our Technology initiatives, ensuring teams execute successfully, and being a strong and active participant of Mojo Mortgages' leadership team. You will have the unique opportunity to contribute to and own the development of cutting-edge FinTech solutions within the RVU Group, positioning Mojo Mortgages as a leader in the field.

One of your key responsibilities will involve enhancing the technical outputs of our Engineering, Salesforce and Data teams. By implementing appropriate practices to foster a fast-paced culture of innovation, you will ensure that our technology can support future organisational growth and success. In collaboration with senior leadership, you will be instrumental in setting the strategic direction for Mojo Mortgages' engineering initiatives. Your ability to anticipate market trends, identify growth opportunities, and align technical strategies with business objectives will be crucial to our continued success. This person will report to the Mojo Mortgages CEO and be part of the Mojo Leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Product-oriented Leadership:

• Lead with a modern product culture, driving a fast pace of delivery and testing within highly autonomous, outcome-accountable teams.
• Work closely with product leadership to define and deliver on a data-driven roadmap, utilising experiments and insights to inform decision-making.

Technology Strategy:

• Set and communicate a clear technology strategy, effectively diagnosing problems and prioritising solutions for both immediate and long-term impact.
• Own data governance, the data architecture and champion robust data orchestration and integration across all systems, including complex APIs and system design (internal and external).
• Develop and execute a comprehensive data infrastructure + strategy, focusing on stitching together SaaS services and data, and managing migrations (e.g., connecting comms together).
• Ensure strategic investment in the right tools and technologies, balancing short-term gains with effective technical debt management and long-term investments.
• Build technology to drive the performance of in-house operators, including expertise in CRM (Salesforce + in-house) solutions.

Execution:

• Establish excellent ways of working, fostering shared principles and holding leaders and teams accountable as a player-manager and an example for the wider business.
• Demonstrate strong technical acumen, asking the right questions and unblocking challenges for engineering teams.
• Ensure continuous and frequent value delivery, effectively balancing technical investment with value creation
• Champion Trust in AI (ethics, explainability) as we integrate artificial intelligence into our products and operations.

Organisation and Planning:

• Build alignment across multidisciplinary teams within the organisation, strengthening the relationship between technology, product, and the wider business.
• Assess capability levels and invest in supporting at the right levels to close gaps in performance, skill, and knowledge.
• Cultivate a modern cloud + continuous delivery environment, ensuring high velocity and reliability.
• Demonstrate experience in build vs. buy decisions, effectively combining services rather than building everything from scratch.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in a senior engineering leadership role, ideally within FinTech and/or a financial regulated business
• Demonstrable experience with a modern product culture and driving data-driven decision-making.
• Strong leadership team experience, with the ability to communicate technology strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong people management skills, with experience managing mixed disciplines (e.g., analysts, engineers, Salesforce, data engineering).
• Practical scale-up/startup organisation experience (not large corporate), having navigated rapid growth and evolving environments.
• Deep understanding of public cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and how to best exploit capabilities and manage execution costs.
• Expertise in data orchestration, integration, and API design for complex systems.
• Experience with data infrastructure strategy and managing significant data migrations and Salesforce integrations.
• A track record of managing technical debt and balancing short-term delivery with long-term strategic investments.
• Familiarity with trustworthy AI principles (ethics, explainability) and leveraging AI in innovative ways.
• Experience in driving operational efficiency through process automation

Benefits

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU/ Mojo even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• Work anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per year.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (up to 28 days with length of service).
• Half-day holiday for your birthday and a day off for moving house.
• Pension via People's Pension (matched contributions up to 5%).
• Wellness programme from Able Futures and subsidised private medical insurance.
• Critical illness cover and death in service (4x base salary).
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay.
• Compassionate leave and long-service awards (up to GBP 3,000).
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now and be a part of our journey to revolutionise the mortgage industry at Mojo Mortgages.