Head of Software Engineering in Birmingham

Competitive Salary & Benefits, Birmingham / West Midlands

Location: Birmingham / West Midlands

Working pattern: Office based preferred, minimum 3 days per week in office

Contract: Full time, permanent, temporary (immediate start) considered

• Private Medical Insurance
• Death in Service
• EMI Share Options
• Free Parking
• On Site Cafe
• Electric Vehicle Charge Points
• Home Office provision

ABOUT

Delta.g is a UK quantum technology company developing gravity sensing tools that unlock real-time spatial intelligence. Our sensors allow users to see what lies beneath the surface of the Earth using gravity alone, revealing hidden sinkholes, old mine workings, and buried infrastructure without digging. Spun out of the University of Birmingham, our technology is new, powerful, and close to commercial deployment. We have just raised £4.6 million in investment led by Serendipity Capital, NSSIF, and SCVC, and are scaling rapidly. We are building our team in partnership with Reedmace Talent, experts in helping tech companies scale through in-house hiring. We do not use recruitment agencies, we hire directly.

Head of Software Engineering, West Midlands

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, set technical direction, and take ownership of architecture, delivery, and quality. You’ll work closely with C-level leadership, manage budgets, and play a key role in investor updates and technical due diligence.

You will also operate at board and senior leadership level, communicating progress, risks and decisions clearly, and taking full responsibility for delivering engineering goals across software and hardware.

Key Responsibilities and Required Skills

• Build and lead an internal software engineering team
• Architect and deliver embedded, platform and cloud software
• Hands-on leadership across C++ (17+), Python, Linux, FPGA, cloud and product software
• Establish and govern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and coding standards
• Manage outsourced partners and drive knowledge transfer in-house
• Own engineering budgets, roadmaps and delivery commitments
• Operate in an agile, fast-paced environment with product, hardware and commercial teams
• Define and track engineering metrics such as build health, test coverage, lead time and defect escape rate
• Ensure robust documentation, security and compliance standards

Technical Experience

You should have experience with:

• C++17 or later, Python, Rust
• Embedded Linux including Yocto and PetaLinux
• Drivers, firmware and ADC pathways
• STM32, Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• Git, GitHub or Bitbucket with strong branching discipline
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Automated testing using GoogleTest, Robot, Selenium or similar
• Jira, Confluence and modern delivery tooling
• FPGA experience such as Vivado, Quartus, VHDL and Spartan-class devices
• Hardware interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, RS485 and Ethernet
• Security and compliance exposure such as ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials

Are You Eligible to Apply?

• Have you presented technical packs to senior or board-level stakeholders?
• Have you defined hardware and software architectures aligned to business milestones?
• Do you have recent embedded C++ (C++17+) experience?
• Have you led engineering teams of 5–10+ with hiring and performance responsibility?
• Have you transitioned outsourced teams in-house, including reviewing their code?
• Have you delivered complex products involving hardware, manufacturing and cross-functional teams?

If so, we look forward to hearing from you.