Product Engineering Director in London

About GetGround: We are disrupting one of the world's largest asset classes, property. With £2Bn+ assets on our platform and 30,000+ users across 70 countries, we're building the future of asset ownership and in doing so, are able to address wealth inequality. Our product simplifies property investing from start to finish, making real estate investment accessible to everyone.

The Role: As the Product Engineering Director, you will lead and scale a high‐performing engineering function whilst remaining deeply hands‐on with code. You'll manage Product Engineers, shape technical strategy, and actively contribute to our AI‐native products. This is a player‐coach role where you balance people leadership with meaningful coding contributions - we're looking for someone who leads through example and maintains their technical edge.

What you'll love doing:

• Lead and develop engineering leaders: Manage and mentor a team of Product Engineers, helping them grow their technical and leadership capabilities while driving impact across their teams.
• Code regularly: Spend meaningful time writing production code, reviewing pull requests, and contributing to architecture. You'll work across our React/TypeScript frontend and Golang backend, using AI tools as your co‐pilot.
• Shape technical strategy: Define and evolve our engineering roadmap, architectural decisions, and technical standards in an AI‐first development culture - informed by your hands‐on work.
• Build and scale teams: Partner with our talent team to attract, hire, and onboard exceptional engineering talent. Create an environment where engineers thrive and deliver their best work.
• Drive delivery and impact: Own outcomes across multiple product streams, ensuring teams ship high‐quality features fast whilst balancing technical excellence with commercial priorities.
• Champion engineering excellence: Establish and evolve engineering practices, standards, and culture that enable us to move quickly without compromising quality. Lead by example through your own code contributions.
• Collaborate cross‐functionally: Work closely with Product, Design, and other functions to align on priorities, make strategic trade‐offs, and drive business outcomes.
• Navigate ambiguity: Operate effectively in a fast‐moving environment where ownership, experimentation, and adaptability are essential.

What we're looking for:

• Hands‐on technical leadership: You're a strong full‐stack engineer (React/TypeScript, Golang or similar) who actively codes and wants to continue doing so. You earn credibility through your technical contributions, not just your title.
• Engineering management experience: Proven track record managing and developing engineering teams, including other engineering leaders. You've built high‐performing cultures where engineers grow, collaborate, and deliver impact.
• Recent coding experience: You've been writing production code within the last 6‐12 months and are excited to continue. You can jump into our codebase and make meaningful contributions quickly.
• Architectural expertise: Experience making significant architectural decisions, building consumer‐facing products at scale, and balancing technical debt against delivery pressure.
• Product and commercial acumen: Deep understanding of how engineering enables product and business outcomes. You're excited about building world‐class tech products that solve real user problems and drive commercial results.
• People development focus: Passionate about growing engineers and engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and clear feedback - while also demonstrating excellence through your own technical work.
• Change agent: Demonstrated ability to drive meaningful change in engineering organizations - whether improving delivery practices, elevating technical standards, or evolving team culture.
• AI‐first mindset: Excited about AI‐augmented development workflows (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, code generation) and building AI‐native products. Comfortable with rapid experimentation and iteration.
• Strong communication: Able to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, facilitate difficult conversations, and build alignment across functions.
• Values alignment: Embody our operating principles: no BS, pursuit of excellence, feedback obsession, and healthy ego.

This role isn't for you if:

• You want to step away from coding - This role requires regular, meaningful code contributions. If you're looking to be purely managerial, this isn't the right fit.
• You want fully remote work - We're hybrid with 4 days in office and believe passionately about the advantages of in‐office collaboration and innovation.
• You prefer delegating all technical work - We need a leader who stays hands‐on, understands problems intimately through coding, and leads by example in the codebase.
• You want a stable, predictable environment - We move fast, priorities shift, and ambiguity is constant. You need to thrive in this context.
• You're looking for a slow‐paced corporate environment - We own outcomes, make quick decisions, and live by our values without corporate politics.
• You see coding as beneath your level - Technical contribution is core to this role, not optional.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to lead engineering at a fast‐growing FinTech/PropTech company disrupting a massive market while staying hands‐on with code.
• Autonomy and ownership to shape our engineering function and culture.
• A team that values excellence, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Competitive compensation and equity.
• The chance to work on AI‐native products that are reshaping property investment.

Diversity & inclusion at GetGround: We encourage applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law. 42% of our employees identify as female or non‐specified, 58% as male. 22 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries. Our work on Design Accessibility. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture - we celebrate and reflect on key D&I and cultural events such as: Black History Month, International Women's Day and Pride.