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Head of Engineering
£100,000 - 100,000
XACT PLACEMENTS LIMITED
Trafalgar Square, South East London
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- 10 years of experience building and managing distributed engineering teams across multiple regions.
- Proven track record as a global leader, managing local leads and scaling high-performing teams.
- Experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS applications in a high-growth B2B environment.
- Strong technical depth across:
- Backend: Node.js, Typescript
- Frontend: React.js, Typescript
- Database: MySQL
- Cloud/Infra: AWS, ECS, K8s, Airflow, Kafka, Serverless
- Solid understanding of SaaS fundamentals: onboarding, authentication, SSO, granular authorization, multi-tenancy.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration, asynchronous tasks, and event-driven architecture.
- Ideally, exposure to cybersecurity platforms or large-scale security data systems.
Responsibilities
- Leading and growing a global application engineering team, spanning backend and frontend systems.
- Building critical SaaS capabilities for enterprise clients: account lifecycle, access control, notifications, logging, multi-tenancy, and more.
- Partnering with local leads to ensure global alignment and consistent delivery standards.
- Driving a high-performance engineering culture through structured reviews, coaching, and career development pathways.
- Partnering with Product Design to deliver intuitive, robust enterprise workflows.
- Tackling complex technical challenges across large-scale data pipelines, secure access, event-driven systems, and multi-tenant architectures.
- Embedding Agile, DevOps, and best practices into the engineering organization.
Description
We are offering a competitive compensation and benefits package for this key leadership role in our high-growth cybersecurity scale-up. You will have the opportunity to shape our global engineering strategy and culture while working with cutting-edge technology that addresses complex, industry-wide challenges. We emphasize endless career progression, as growth and internal promotion are core to our DNA. This is a rare chance to lead a global engineering function at a company that is reshaping how the world's largest organizations stay ahead of attackers. If you are a proven applications leader with SaaS and security experience, we invite you to apply and embark on your next big challenge with us.
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