Chief Software Engineering Architect

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Proxymity Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Chief Engineer to join our team at Proxymity. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for driving the development of our software engineering capabilities and ensuring that our systems architecture vision is aligned with our business strategy.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the refinement of our system architecture vision and strategy in conjunction with the Chief Technology Officer and Engineering Directors.
  • Identify opportunities to progress our systems architecture strategy, using the product development roadmap as a vehicle to incorporate technology advances while recognizing the time to market needs of our product delivery roadmap.
  • Manage the complexity of system design and drive high-quality implementations.
  • Define and effectively communicate the core solution design principles and guidelines that enable engineering teams to align their product development output with the system architecture vision and its strategy.
  • Promote a federated approach to solution design at Proxymity, supporting engineers who are engaged in producing solution designs and providing coaching and direction when necessary.
  • Lead the solution design of the more challenging and complex product development projects and technology-driven initiatives, and provide oversight and support for the more complex implementations.
  • Manage and strive to continually improve Proxymity's software engineering KPI metrics relating to system throughput and latency, code quality, and security.
  • On-going development of Proxymity's software engineering talent.
  • Building effective relationships with the engineers based on trust and respect, and being available to assist engineers when needed in overcoming the technical challenges they may be facing.
  • Lead workshops to promote effective software engineering techniques and work with engineers at an individual level to continually improve their software engineering capabilities.
  • Play a key role in recruiting new software engineering talent to Proxymity, providing a consistent approach to assessing candidates' suitability and overseeing the onboarding process for new software engineers joining the organization.
  • A track record of successfully introducing effective software engineering practices and technologies into an organization.
  • Strong knowledge and experience of building high throughput, low latency, mission-critical systems.
  • Strong knowledge and experience of building cloud native, API-driven solutions in AWS.
  • A student and practitioner of effective software engineering practices, especially those that enable organizational scale in dynamic, fast-growing businesses.
  • Strong knowledge of the Java language, service-oriented architecture, enterprise messaging solutions, and relational database design.
  • A great developer of talent who loves to coach, build trusting relationships with their colleagues, and encourage engineers to contribute to key strategic engineering discussions.
  • A skilled solution architect who demonstrates an engineering mindset when producing their solution designs and demonstrates best practices in the implementation of software solutions.
  • An effective people manager who has experience of managing teams of senior and highly skilled software engineers, e.g., architects, principal engineers, etc.
What We Offer
  • Headspace subscription
  • Birthday off in addition to annual leave
  • Access to Absorb Learning
  • Improved family-friendly policies
  • Work your way
  • Choose your tech
  • 2 duvet days a year
  • 1 volunteer day a year
  • 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity
  • Workation - Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year.
  • Companywide parties twice a year
  • Team drinks
  • A company wins programme
  • Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, wellbeing etc.
  • A dog-friendly office
  • Complementary snacks and drinks in the office

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position.



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