Director of Engineering

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Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:30
Location: Fleet, Hampshire
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days per week
We're looking for a highly capable and delivery-driven Director of Engineering to lead our technology organisation into it's next phase of maturity.
You'll oversee a team of around 75+ people across multiple cross-functional squads, covering engineering, QA, DevOps, platform, architecture and delivery. Reporting directly to the board, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our teams deliver on time, on budget and to the highest standards of technical excellence.
This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who thrives in a lean, fast-moving environment. You'll work closely with Product, Data, Marketing, Sales and Customer Service to align technology execution with business outcomes, while maintaining the agility to pivot and respond rapidly to market changes.
You'll also partner closely with the SLT and company founder, ensuring our technology capabilities continue to deliver measurable impact and commercial advantage.
Responsibilities:

• Drive engineering performance, productivity and delivery excellence across multiple teams
  
• Oversee the execution of a well-defined technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities
  
• Maintain high standards of code quality, reliability and scalability across PHP, Go, Next.js and other core languages
  
• Continue the evolution of our AWS-based microservices and event-driven architecture
  
• Partner closely with Product Management to ensure delivery predictability and stakeholder alignment
  
• Develop and mentor engineering managers and technical leads, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
  
• Collaborate with cross functional leaders in Marketing, Data, Sales and Customer Service to translate business needs into technology outcomes
  
• Champion agile best practices and metrics-driven delivery, ensuring commitments are met with transparency and discipline
  
• Ensure effective operational processes for QA, DevOps, release management and post-go-live support
  
• Act as a senior voice in the technology leadership team, contributing to long-term strategy and planning
  Requirements
  
• Proven experience leading engineering organisations of 50+ people in a fast-paced, sales led business
  
• Strong track record of delivering technology at scale within an Agile framework
  
• Deep understanding of modern cloud architectures (ideally AWS) and experience with microservices and event-driven systems
  
• Background in at least one of our core technologies: PHP, Go or JavaScript (Next.js)
  
• Experience managing diverse teams across engineering, QA, DevOps and platform functions
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence and collaborate across executive and commercial teams
  
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with a pragmatic approach to balancing speed and quality
  
• Comfortable working in a lean, high-accountability environment where priorities evolve quickly
  Benefits
  We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.
  Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application