Head of Engineering in London

ChangeEngine is the next generation data-to-communication platform that empowers companies to treat employees like their internal customers. Employees are the heart of any organisation—happy employees lead to happy customers. We think with an employee-centric mindset and our product & team reflects that.

In the hybrid workplace, employees are feeling more disconnected than ever before. In order to connect with their employees, companies are sending blanket emails, running all hands, and deploying outdated solutions, such as intranet portals. People teams are not equipped to succeed and are left spending time doing manual tasks. They’re discovering, designing, and executing programs from scratch. We’re here to fix that.

ChangeEngine is founded by successful Silicon Valley/UK SaaS entrepreneurs who’ve previously raised investment from Aaron Levie (Box), Eric Schmidt (Google), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot) amongst 30 angels which led to a successful exit to Jobvite in 2019. Now, we’ve started ChangeEngine to empower companies to communicate with their employees in the most intelligent and impactful ways possible. Delivering critical and beneficial information about what their company has to offer, such as careers, benefits, software, coaching, compliance, diversity, and much more. As a result, we enrich people's work-life experience by highlighting initiatives that are truly meaningful, while staying within their current working flow.

At ChangeEngine, we’ve received Seed investment from Struck Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Builders VC, Forward Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, Gaingels, and Notion Capital (amongst a number of other strategic angels) to tackle the unique opportunity to create a new category and deploy the next wave of employee adoption tech. You’ll be joining 4 experienced entrepreneurs from the US and UK. Together they have already built global SaaS companies and have 7 combined exits. Spanning both regions, they have access to a wide range of VC backing and support. For this venture they are capitalizing on their SaaS experience to build even more meaningful tech.

ChangeEngine has been awarded Great Place to Work (see certification). Joining us, you’ll be a key part of the Cultural Building Blocks as we pave the way for the future of work.

More about the team

Our talented and experienced team is made up of like-minded, self-starting individuals. We champion discovery, trust and honesty. We’re very supportive of each other, providing a great place to learn and grow no matter how senior. It’s certainly a fast-paced environment, so a positive culture, transparency and pragmatism are key.

Job Description

After hiring our initial engineering team, scaling our technology, culture and business, we’re now preparing for the next stages of growth and require your help to achieve this. We’re looking for someone that can help support our engineering team as we mature, with hiring, best-practice processes, tools and any other needs they may have. We’d also expect you to have strategic input on how we’ll expand the team and our SDLC as we move into our next phase, Series A. This will include hiring, coaching, forecasting, strategy planning and technical architecture leadership.

Qualifications

• Has a strong background in architecture, application development and has a history in shipping production ready code.
• Can lead and develop our technical strategy. Is responsible for exploring new features and technologies, whilst balancing scaling and growth of infrastructure.
• Has actively hired people and grown teams from a handful of engineers to 20+.
• Is people focused, helping their employees and colleagues learn and grow. Fostering trust in their relationships and culture.
• Has coached or mentored their engineering team and has some experience with career development planning.
• Understands the tools and processes required to support a growing technology function.
• Has been involved in the strategy and planning of funding rounds, has gone on to deliver their plan, and manage a budget.
• Worked with founders or directors at a senior level and interacted with investors.
• Comfortable managing multiple relationships, balancing competing priorities.
• Adopted technology (cutting edge where possible), protected against hiring issues, scale, security and agility.
• We hope for a Head of Engineering that inspires others, exemplifies ingenuity and creativity.
• Have a true interest in technology, problem solving, and innovations in development practice.
• Be excited to work in an early stage company where you learn fast, move fast, take initiative and help others.
• Understands information security standards, is aware of, or even helped to deliver SOC 2, ISO 27001.
• Has a lot of experience in hiring, interviewing and testing engineering candidates.

What we believe is important to the role

• Currently operating as CTO, Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering.
• Experience with most of our technologies: AWS, Typescript, React, Vercel, Python.
• Developed a scalable and global application.
• Is using current and modern technology.
• Experience in relevant industries: SaaS, HR, Communication, Integrations.
• Good organisation and management skills to handle priorities, velocity, and quality.

Why work with us

• Because you want to build technology that you're proud of.
• You enjoy the very early stages of a company.
• You want to influence and lead technology in your work.
• You want to share knowledge with, and learn from experienced colleagues.
• You want to enjoy the culture of a US/UK company (taking best practices from both).

Additional Information

• A Hybrid role, with an office located in London.
• Stock options.
• Hybrid working (a mix of in-office and work-from-home).
• Health insurance which includes additional perks.
• Team retreats (occasionally between US/UK).
• £500 L&D budget to help you continually grow.