Head of Software Engineering

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Haystack Full time
Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Software Engineering to join our team at Haystack. As a key member of our engineering leadership team, you will be responsible for driving the technical direction of our software engineering teams and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of software engineering managers to build and maintain high-quality and reliable software.
  • Responsible for the engineering excellence of our product group, including behaviors, operations, and technical quality.
  • Line manage and develop software engineering managers to ensure they have the right skills, development plans, and a bias toward learning.
  • Lead the development and improvements to standard frameworks and policies, ensuring they are understood and adopted.
  • Write strategy papers and contribute to designing architecture to drive tech transformation and implementations.
  • Coach, support, and guide engineering managers and engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
  • Drive DevOps practices to automate the product development life cycle.
  • Drive the improvement and measurement of product group quality and reliability via software engineering best practices and metrics.
  • Lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mindset, focusing on supporting our colleagues.
  • Demonstrate and champion pragmatism in terms of commercial delivery and software quality.
  • Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of working within the team and wider community.
  • Actively contribute to and lead communities of practice.
  • Enhance and implement the engineering talent strategy.
  • Support recruitment and brand outreach activities.

Technical Requirements

  • React, Next.js, Typescript
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • GraphQL Federation
  • Cloud: Azure
  • Observability: New Relic

Essential Experience

  • Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer.
  • Excellent knowledge in all stack areas, from front-end through to back-end.
  • Extensive background in software engineering with several years of experience in a variety of systems and technologies.
  • Consistent track record in delivering, operating, leading, hiring, and shifting at product group level and above.
  • Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
  • Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering best practices.
  • Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.
  • Strong understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering.
  • Ability to lead and line manage senior engineers, engineering managers, and technical partners to a desired outcome, without prescribing it.
  • Knowledge of software approaches like Domain-Driven Design.
  • Previous software engineering community leadership experience.
  • Advanced experience with cloud engineering.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are a motivated and experienced software engineering leader looking for a new challenge, please apply.

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