Director of Engineering - Digital Products

What You’ll Bring

1. Leadership Experience • Engineering Leadership: 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role (e.g., Head of Engineering, Director, or Senior Manager) managing other managers. • Scale: Experience leading organizations of significant size (30+ engineers), including navigating the complexities of hiring, performance management, and organizational restructuring. • Domain Expertise: Demonstrable experience building both “power user” systems like our dealer-facing UIs, as well as easy-access UIs for end-customers. 2. Technical Fluency • Cloud Native: While you may not code everyday, you have a deep architectural understanding of modern cloud platforms (GCP preferred), microservices, and event-driven architectures, and can hold your own in a design review with a Staff Engineer, able to challenge effectively on design choices. • React Frontends: 5+ years of experience building React applications. • Java Backends: A background in the Java & Spring ecosystem, using GraphQL, REST and Kafka for integration. • Culture of curiosity: You will work with your teams to continuously improve skills, knowledge and best practices. 3. Mindset • Talent Magnet: You have a history of attracting top engineering talent and building diverse, high performing teams. • Technical Leadership: You provide inspirational tech direction to engineers, knowing what good looks like. • Communication: You can relate complicated technical problems in a clear and jargon-free way, demystifying the tech for the executive team.

Bonus Points For

• • Experience with finance platforms (e.g., off-the-shelf banking software or custom-built ledgers). • Google Cloud Professional Architect certification. • Experience building vehicle finance and dealer application.

• The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability

• This position is based in Dunton, and it is expected the successful candidate will be able to attend the Dunton Campus for typically 4 days a week and remain flexible on the days they are required to attend the office according to business requirements.

• As part of our pre-employment checks process, successful candidates will be required to undergo a criminal record check. This will be conducted in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and applied only to unspent convictions.

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