Director of Engineering

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Director of Engineering - Fully RemoteSalary up to £85kLooking for a unique opportunity to help establish an Engineering organisation with the oversight to design, implement, and lead a group responsible for delivering on growth and industry-changing strategic objectives?As Director of Engineering, you'll work closely with the leadership team to build a world-class engineering group. You'll be a "player-coach," focused on attracting and developing engineering talent, but also staying hands-on in the technology to oversee the development of an outstanding product and customer experience.The successful candidate will be a seasoned technology executive able to lead engineering teams delivering solutions in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You'll have a proven track record building platforms and scaling engineering organisations while executing critical programs.Duties and Responsibilities Hire, mentor, develop, and retain top-notch engineering talent.Create effective full-stack software development teams focused on the nimble delivery of value for our customers.Inspired by industry best practices and sound principals, drive constant innovation through Architecture, Database, Engineering, and DevOps teams.Collaborate closely with the executive team as well as cross-functional teams to deliver great products and solve customer problems as needed.Maintain and improve agile processes collaboratively with the teams, and enable new development techniques or methods to reduce complexity, promote quality, and increase velocity.Drive efficiency in your teams by eliminating blocks and focusing efforts on tooling, continuous integration/delivery, and maintainable automation testing.Foster a culture of operational excellence in your teams through real-time monitoring and alerting.Qualifications An interest in making an impact on the way money moves between people globally.5+ years of experience in software development management.1+ years as a Director of Engineering or above whose span of control is at or above 10 engineers.A strong background in object-oriented programming in a language such as Java, C#, Objective-C or C++.Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML / XSLT, SQL, database design, message-oriented-middleware, caching, and systems integration.Hands on experience resolving performance and scalability issues of SaaS-based applications.Experience with designing, building, and deploying secure, scalable services in the SaaS environments.Strong fluency in Agile software practices.Tolerant of high degrees of ambiguity, and good at resolving uncertainty and setting direction. Willing to backtrack, seek multiple solutions, and experiment to validate approaches.Contributed to the establishment of Software Configuration Management practices.Establishment and management of DevOps teams.Contact [email protected] or call 0191 814 7785 for more information.