Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering, UK (London)

We are hiring on behalf of our client, an early-stage risk and intelligence technology company, for a Director of Engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the next stage of technical and organisational growth, scaling the platform, and building a high-performing engineering team.

About the Role

You will take full ownership of the platform architecture, data pipelines, integrations, and multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure. This is a highly visible, strategic role where you will work closely with the founder and early customers, ensuring the platform is scalable, secure, reliable, and enterprise-ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full platform architecture, including ingestion, scoring, data stores, APIs, and dashboards.
• Lead AI/ML-powered enrichment and scoring systems.
• Build and scale microservices, event-driven pipelines, and automated intelligence workflows.
• Harden cloud infrastructure and implement security, compliance, and CI/CD best practices.
• Convert manual intelligence processes into automated, repeatable workflows.
• Build, mentor, and develop a small but highly capable engineering team.
• Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Ideal Experience

• 10+ years in software engineering, including senior or director-level leadership experience.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and data engineering.
• Solid security and compliance knowledge; experience with SOC2, ISO27001, CE+, or similar standards is a plus.
• Experience building early-stage or founding engineering teams.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on engineering with strategic leadership.
• Experience in risk analytics, intelligence, or security data is advantageous.

Why Join

• Take direct ownership of the engineering strategy and platform direction.
• Build a mission-critical platform from the ground up.
• Shape and scale a high-performing engineering team.
• Work on impactful problems that reduce organisational risk at scale.
• Competitive compensation and equity package.

SALARY: £130-150,000

If you are successful within the application process, someone from our team will reach out to you.