Director of Engineering -Fully remote UK - Interviewing ASAP

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The company:We're building the next generation of capabilities that powers our merchant-first ecosystem. We believe that focused and empowered teams can do great things. You'll find that we're a curious, driven, and pragmatic bunch who believe in outcomes over outputs, and we're looking for like-minded individuals to join us on our journey.The Role:Unique opportunity to establish an engineering organization with the oversight to design, implement, and lead.As Director of Engineering, you'll work closely with our leadership team to build a world-class engineering group. You'll be a 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.Your leadership will be instrumental in driving organizational change as we move the team to a more agile development framework that enables faster time to value across our product portfolio.ResponsibilitiesMentor, develop, and retain top-notch engineering talent.Create effective software development teamsDrive 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 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.Able to coordinate the development of cross-team features between engineering teams, product managers and our technical operations team.QualificationsExperience in software development management.A background in OO 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.Strong fluency in Agile software practices.

Benefits Fully remote. Bonus on top of annual salary. Regular social events in Northern Ireland on a quarterly basis. Pension.Get in touch today: [email protected] & 0191 255 1423