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Head of Engineering. Series A Startup. Fully Remote

Employer
Michael Page Technology
Location
Homeworking
Salary
£90000 - £110000 per annum + options + Remote
Closing date
19 Apr 2021

Job Details

a superb opportunity to join a Series A Startup that is developing on a unique SAAS offering that has already got a heavyweight of clients as users. This is your chance to scale the engineering function from 6 to 40.

Client Details

My client is building an intelligent behavioural security platform combining the power of science, data and cognitive computing technology. This is an opportunity to build a security solution that will impact the business and personal usage of the internet. This is your chance to come along and help accelerate growth.

Description

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • This is a partnership role with the CTO and CEO/founder. You'll be teaming up with product management to take ownership of innovation and delivery
  • With the CTO you will design delivery processes and team structure to deliver great features for customers
  • Collaboration with the product team and others to deliver technical architecture, business strategy, vision and long term product priorities
  • Grow engineering skills, optimise team performance, individual mentorship and career management (progression, promotion, performance, retention)
  • Contribute to a data driven and continuous improvement culture with a focus on engineering workflow efficiency, stability, scalability and security
  • Own deliverables and design OKRs for engineering excellence, accounting for scalability & high availability, delightful UX and high product value
  • Promote publicity and transparency for engineering.

You will ultimately be responsible for scaling from 6to 40 engineers.

Profile

THE TYPE OF PERSON WE'RE AFTER

  • Cares about working with purpose
  • Must be comfortable with ambiguity or change in the short term while keeping a focus on the long term
  • An individual with high bandwidth, capable of prioritising with a clear understanding of the "WHY"
  • Strong, informed opinions, but loosely held in the presence of other equally informed colleagues or data to the contrary
  • Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds and experiences at all levels
  • Responsible and accountable, strong attention to detail
  • You are a capable, clear and inspiring communicator, written & presentation
  • You challenge and support your colleagues
  • You value diversity, equality and inclusion

THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE YOU'LL NEED

  • You can transform vision into product
  • You are driven by results, and prefer an optimised team over heavy procedures and processes
  • You strive to operate strategically but are willing to roll up your sleeves to get there
  • You have significant leadership experience including:
    • Hiring
    • Designing and leading outstanding sizeable teams
    • Strong personal network
  • You have experience of working in product-led teams
  • You can demonstrate strong employee retention with the capability to teach and professionally develop others
  • You are technically capable, with deep knowledge and experience of modern practices, technologies and architectural principles
  • You have the ability to make decisions that focus on value, considering users, customers, colleagues and the business
  • You have experience working with remote & in-person teams
  • As a leader you exercise autonomy, and communicate objectives eloquently and clear

MINIMUMS

  • 10+ years in software engineering
  • 5+ of engineering leadership
  • Worked with or for enterprise SaaS startups and/or security products
  • Designed and built data platforms
  • Familiarity of our core tech stack (AWS, Python & React)

Job Offer

In return you will be offered:

The Package

  • It's a full-time role earning £80,000 - £110,000 per year with pension plan and contribution by us.
  • You will be eligible for a discretionary bonus at our year end (end of June).
  • As a full time employee, you'll also be enrolled in the company options scheme and ultimately benefit from the value you will help create.

FULLY REMOTE with a base from London.

CVs under review now!

Company

Michael Page Technology, part of PageGroup, is one of the world’s best-known and well-respected professional recruitment consultancies. We are a leading provider of permanent and contract recruitment for IT professionals across a spectrum of roles from CIO and CTO to IT Security Manager and Service Desk Analyst in businesses that range from start-ups to multi-national household brands.

We have 200 consultants in 20 countries dedicated to IT recruitment and specializing in the following technology roles:

  • IT Project and Programme Management
  • IT Strategy and Leadership
  • Infrastructure, Operations and IT Service Management
  • Web and Application Development
  • Security 
  • Testing/QA
  • Business Intelligence and Databases
  • ERP and Business Solutions

This ensures that we fully understand the specific requirements of each role and benefit from wide a pool of relevant existing candidates.

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