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Head of Engineering

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💎 Seniority level: Lead

🔍 Industry: EdTech

🏢 Company: Education Perfect👥 101-250EducationE-LearningPrimary Education

🗣️ Languages: English

Requirements:
  • Broad experience building and operating cloud software at scale, in both hands-on development and senior leadership roles.
  • Experience building diverse team environments with a culture of trust, ownership, and accountability.
  • A strong customer focus, and the ability to align engineering work with high-level organisational goals.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to align cross-functional groups, and clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Deep technical and architectural experience, and the ability to drive technical strategy.
  • Ability to manage risk, ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • The curiosity, flexibility, and resilience to operate in a fast-moving organization.
  • Experience building and leading distributed teams in global engineering organisations.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead and develop our team of high-performing engineers through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and career development.
  • Own recruitment, onboarding, learning & development, and performance assessment for engineering team members.
  • Empower teams by sharing context, setting objectives, and providing autonomy.
  • In collaboration with the Head of Delivery, create a strong delivery culture, and continuously evolve our delivery practices.
  • In collaboration with the Head of Security, ensure continued platform compliance in line with our ISO, security, and privacy requirements.
  • In collaboration with principal engineers and enablement teams, evolve the platform architecture towards a modern, flexible stack with a cohesive set of reusable patterns and components.
  • Introduce meaningful metrics and measure the performance of teams and individuals.
  • Support all horizontal team structures (chapters), and facilitate healthy discussion and decision making that aligns with company goals.
  • Actively contribute to the evolution of our technology stack, tooling, and technical standards. Lead associated documentation initiatives.
  • Represent engineering leadership in product discovery and roadmap development. Communicate technical constraints and considerations, and how they relate to feasibility and sequencing.
  • Horizontally coordinate and align teams, managing domain boundaries, technical dependencies, enablers, and blockers.
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