VP Engineering – Remote Permanent

VP Engineering – Tech Scaleup, Ruby, React, Microservices, AWS

The business are an exciting Tech business, with a Machine Learning driven Pricing Platform who have recently launched the product in the USA and are now embarking on globalising their product!

After only 4 years, they have ongoing revenue from a growing UK client base, new revenue from the USA and a new strategic partnership who are providing market reach and significant funding to scale at pace, hence the need for a seasoned VP Engineering to steer them from a technical perspective.

You will be heading up Engineering, from team management, to Architectural and tooling decisions and running code reviews too, making sure the platform continues to scale robustly, with regular enhancements to the current product and new features too.

The current tech stack is Ruby on Rails, AWS, Micro services architecture, Kafka, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, with the past year spent re Engineering the Product in micro services and with new DevOps provisioning and Automation Testing introduced.

The business stand at around 25 currently, with 12+ in the Engineering team and set to grow over the next 12 months.

Ideally you will have worked within a Ruby environment previously, to be able to contribute to Technical conversations and undertake code reviews and may suit a Lead Engineer, Tech Lead or Engineering Manager looking for the next level of responsibility in their career. Driving the right behaviours, Engineering best practice and pragmatic use of tooling and technology are paramount.

If you are interested in hearing more about this position, please do get in touch ASAP.