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Director of Engineering
£125,000 - 150,000
Command Recruitment
City Road 124, City of London
£125,000 - 150,000
Requirements
Must:
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 3-5 years in senior leadership roles
- Proven track record in managing multiple teams or pods delivering in parallel
- Hands-on engineering or architectural experience
- Experience leading high-performing teams and partnering with Product and business stakeholders
- Experience in regulated industries (healthcare is preferred)
- Demonstrated success scaling teams, processes, and systems in fast-growth organisations
- Deep knowledge of modern software architecture (cloud, microservices, APIs)
- Experience with Flutter (mobile), Next.js (web), Node.js/Python (backend)
- Extensive AWS cloud expertise
- Ability to provide strategic guidance and challenge teams on design, scalability, and implementation
- Strong communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders and distributed teams
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity across complex programmes
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams across the UK and India, delivering complex initiatives in parallel
- Own end-to-end delivery across multiple projects, ensuring alignment, prioritisation, and predictability
- Establish robust operating models for distributed teams and multiple workstreams
- Drive clarity on dependencies, timelines, and outcomes to senior leadership
- Define architecture and platform strategy across mobile (Flutter), web (Next.js), and backend (Node.js, Python)
- Lead and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Champion best practices in microservices, API-first design, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Provide hands-on architectural guidance and challenge technical decisions as needed
- Partner closely with Product and business leaders to translate priorities into actionable delivery plans
- Advise on feasibility, trade-offs, and timelines with clarity and influence
- Ensure engineering output aligns with business value and measurable user outcomes
- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams across geographies
- Develop engineering managers and technical leads, establishing clear ownership and accountability
- Foster a cohesive, collaborative culture with consistent standards and ways of working
- Oversee the delivery of secure, compliant healthcare systems
- Ensure adherence to data privacy, security, and regulatory standards
- Track and report engineering metrics, including quality, reliability, and performance
Description
We are seeking an accomplished Director of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering organisation within a high-growth, health-focused environment. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of technology platforms that support critical healthcare services while driving operational excellence across distributed teams in the UK and India. This role requires a rare blend of deep technical expertise, organisational leadership, and business partnership. You will operate as a senior technical authority, a people leader, and a trusted partner to the business, capable of delivering secure, scalable, and compliant systems in a fast-paced, evolving environment. In return, you will receive a market-leading salary of up to £150,000 plus generous company benefits.
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