Head of Engineering (London)

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Head of Engineering London (Hybrid)

Location: London (Hybrid 1 day pw onsite)

Contract Type: Permanent, full-time

Were looking for a strategic and hands-on Head of Engineering to lead the transition from an outsourced development setup to a high-performing in-house team. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineering leader ready to shape processes, drive delivery, and own technical direction.

What Youll Do:

• Lead a major transition from an external dev partner to a newly built in-house team
• Act as the senior technical authority, guiding architecture and best practices
• Be a player-coach writing production code and leading by example
• Hire and grow a small, effective engineering team
• Establish strong engineering processes for delivery, quality, and scale
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and business leaders
• Shape long-term technical strategy, with potential to step into a CTO role

What we need from you

• 7+ years in full-stack development, ideally with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and React
• Proven experience leading technical teams and setting engineering standards
• Hands-on mindset with a strong bias toward shipping and problem-solving
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and managing engineers
• A pragmatic approach to engineering process enough to ensure speed and stability
• Commercial awareness and a clear understanding of how tech supports business goals
• Confidence in owning technical decisions and handling live systems under pressure

Why This Role?

• Opportunity to build something from the ground up
• Be the most senior technical voice in the business
• Take real ownership of delivery, culture, and direction
• Define how a growing organisation scales its engineering function

• Seniority level
  Not Applicable

• Employment type
  Full-time

• Job function
  Consulting
• Industries
  IT Services and IT Consulting

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