Backend Engineering Director

3 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Muzz Full time

We are seeking an experienced leader to join our engineering leadership team and oversee all aspects of backend engineering. As the Head of Backend Engineering, you will be responsible for the entire backend stack, both day-to-day operations and architecting/planning changes for new features. You will work closely with a 3-person engineering leadership team to tackle cross-company initiatives vital to the company's success.

Job Description
  • Lead a team of 20+ backend and devops engineers
  • Work as part of a 3-person engineering leadership team to uncover issues across engineering, agree on best practices and solve cross-company engineering challenges
  • Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence within their area
  • Help backend engineers across the company to architect changes to keep things lean and simple
  • Stay up to date with new opportunities in the AWS space
  • Work with our Data Engineering team to ensure the smooth flow of production data to our data warehouse setup
  • Stay hands-on writing and reviewing code where needed to help the team out

The ideal candidate will have:

  • 8+ years in Backend engineering
  • ~5+ years leading engineering teams
  • Strong scripting skills (shell, or Python)
  • Expertise with building on the cloud AWS services – we use over 40 AWS services
  • Negotiation experience doing cost estimation in Cost Explorer and planning efficiency changes
  • Advanced EC2 knowledge like spot fleets

We offer a competitive salary of £120,000 - £150,000 per year, depending on experience. We also provide generous holiday/PTO benefits, including at least 33 days off per year. Our office is located in London, and we welcome international travel. We value curiosity and building something wacky (but useful). If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply via email with your resume and a brief introduction.



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