At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering delivery and shape the future of a complex platform.
- Company: High-growth international subscription and commerce business with ambitious expansion plans.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, remote-friendly work, and clear leadership progression.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on shared ownership and rigorous thinking.
- Why this job: Influence major platform evolution and build AI-native engineering practices.
- Qualifications: Proven engineering leadership in scaling digital businesses and strong delivery management skills.
The predicted salary is between 120000 - 140000 £ per year.
Salary Range: £120,000–£140,000 + Benefits
Location: UK, remote-first
Our client is a high-growth, international subscription and commerce business entering an important new phase of expansion. With a well-established core platform and ambitious plans across new markets, operational capability, and data-led customer experiences, this is an opportunity to take ownership of how engineering delivery evolves at scale. You will join an established, well-backed organisation that values thoughtful decision-making, practical delivery, and modern ways of building software.
The Vice President of Engineering will lead engineering delivery across roadmap execution, operational health, and cross-functional coordination. This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who can turn commercial priorities into clear, achievable engineering plans while helping shape the future direction of a complex platform.
Role HighlightsThe Vice President of Engineering will:
- Own delivery across engineering roadmaps, dependencies, milestones, and release planning
- Translate product and commercial priorities into clear, realistic engineering plans
- Build meaningful delivery, quality, incident, and operational health metrics
- Coordinate the evaluation and sequencing of future platform evolution
- Act as a senior deputy to the CTO, with a defined leadership progression path
The role requires:
- Proven engineering leadership experience within a scaling digital, subscription, or commerce business
- Strong delivery management skills across distributed engineering teams and complex priorities
- A practical understanding of modern software architecture, platforms, and operational resilience
- Hands-on experience adopting AI-assisted and agentic development practices
- The judgement to work through ambiguity, challenge constructively, and maintain delivery momentum
Our client offers:
- A defined route towards broader technology leadership and CTO succession
- Remote-friendly working with a distributed engineering team
- The chance to influence a major platform’s next stage of evolution
- A collaborative engineering culture built on rigorous thinking and shared ownership
- Exposure to international growth, data, supply chain, and product transformation initiatives
This Vice President of Engineering role is not a conventional people-management or principal engineering position. You will be the person who creates clarity between strategy and execution: spotting delivery friction early, making trade-offs visible, and ensuring the engineering function can deliver sustainably as the business grows. You will also help the organisation build AI-native engineering practices that are useful, well-governed, and grounded in real delivery outcomes.
If you’re interested, please apply with a copy of your CV.
Vice President of Software Engineering in Nottingham employer: NearTech Search
Our client is an exceptional employer, offering a remote-first work environment that fosters collaboration and innovation among distributed engineering teams. With a strong focus on employee growth, this high-growth organisation provides a clear pathway to technology leadership and the opportunity to influence the evolution of a major platform. The culture prioritises thoughtful decision-making and shared ownership, making it an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment in the tech industry.
