Head of Ecommerce Engineering

• Leading the team to deliver our next personalisation product discovery & creation mission

• Obsessing over our customer’s experience: loading performance, interactivity, and site stability

• Scaling our technology systems to keep pace with business growth, our publishing roadmap and expansion into new product categories

• Optimising our scoping and delivery processes while improving our first class dev team

• Ensuring systems are secure and scalable, leading efforts to prepare for peak trading events and being on-call with your team for any issues

• Regularly contributing to weekly team and all company meetings, sharing your knowledge and insight

• Advancing the careers of your reports and celebrating their progress company-wide

• Laying the foundations for a new generation of technology to support Wonderbly’s growth

• 10+ years experience working in different roles across multiple development teams, with at least 5 years in a management role

• Deep understanding of designing and building complex systems for high traffic customer facing companies like ours

• Ability to decide when making trade-offs between speed vs quality, and can communicate clearly why when you choose one over the other

• Find joy in programming and relish making tough design decisions by comparing the many languages/tools/libraries that you might use to solve a problem

• A natural love of people’s career development, aided by your guidance, feedback and being champion of their achievements

• Always challenging yourself and others to be better and improve

• Appreciation of nicely designed, high-quality, well tested codebases – and ability to communicate why they’re important

• An instinctive and easy empathy with all colleagues

First and foremost, you should join Wonderbly because of the work we do. We’re on a mission to bring our meaningfully personalised products to everyone around the world. You’ll be surrounded by inclusive, diverse and self-motivated people inspired by this exciting mission.

We’re a profitable and responsibly run business. We have clear processes with sensible expectations and are always looking to improve. We have a strongly supportive and inclusive culture and are still small enough for individuals to make a big difference.

We have exciting growth plans, we want to create deeper connections between customers and their important relationships into the heart of our books.

On top of that, you can expect:

• Competitive salary + bonus

• 5 weeks remote working per year

• 28 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays

• Subsidised gym membership

• Mental Health support with Spill

• £500 Learnably budget per year

• Pension scheme with matched contributions

• Health insurance with Bupa to keep you and your family in tip-top shape

• Lunch and Learn sessions with interesting speakers on various topics

We are remote-friendly with a flexible hybrid policy. You are welcome to work at our lovely, well appointed studio in Bloomsbury at any time. Our hybrid policy is being in the office in three days a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays and another day that suits you. Additionally, you can work from anywhere five weeks a year, as long as you overlap our working day.

At our studio there is:

• Shower, secure bike storage (we are also part of the Cycle To Work scheme)

• Heaps of snacks, drinks, and comforts in our fully-stocked kitchen

• Group yoga / walking and other fun stuff

• Clubs for bookworms, runners, gardeners, aspiring poets and much more

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