Head of Engineering Full Time

Risk Ledger Ltd.
The team

You’ll join a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, all collaborating together with the wider business to achieve impactful product outcomes.

Everyone is involved from day one in shaping opportunities that provide outsized value to both clients and suppliers on Risk Ledger, always keeping the users at the forefront of our minds.

We care deeply about building the right thing, in order to fundamentally shift mindsets in the cybersecurity industry. As a result, we prioritise outcomes over output. We ship quickly & continuously in order to learn and iterate – whilst always pushing for high standards and keeping security top of mind.

This role

You’ll be stepping into our first Head of Engineering position, playing a critical role in development of our product, people & organisation.

This is an opportunity to work alongside our CTO to have a long-standing impact on our ways of working, technical strategy, team growth and the success of our engineers.

From day one, you will be responsible for contributing to the build and delivery of the engineering strategy and roadmap, helping to solve complex technical and organisational challenges that will shape the future of Risk Ledger.

As a passionate people manager, you’ll also foster an environment that enables engineers to succeed and perform at their best, both individually and collectively. You’ll support them in reaching their full potential and lead the team in their day-to-day execution to achieve product goals.

Collaboration will be key to your success, and you will build strong, trusting relationships within engineering and with people across the business.

This role will be pivotal to scaling Engineering capability, enabling Risk Ledger to achieve its ambitious goals. You will have the chance to draw on extensive past experience whilst having an exciting opportunity to carve out new and innovative ways to contribute, allowing true ownership of impact.

In the role you will;

• Help to build an ambitious engineering strategy. Bringing your deep experience to the table to shape a multi-faceted engineering strategy aligned to delivering the highest impact for our customers, balanced with maturing Risk Ledger’s engineering capability
• Build & own the engineering roadmap. Helping to identify, validate and execute on big, game-changing opportunities for our product, building on our current vision to revolutionise supply chain security
• Own and execute on engineering organisational design. Ensuring we have a clear, aligned vision for engineering capability and a plan as to how we’ll successfully and sustainably scale including short and long-term talent and capacity planning
• Support, coach & develop engineers. Ensuring individual engineers feel valued and happy, giving them opportunities to grow and putting them on a path to achieving their goals
• Drive team health & productivity. By continuously seeking opportunities for improvement, evolving our ways of working and removing blockers to achieving the highest quality outcomes
• Lead from the front. By asking the right questions at the right time, challenging assumptions, encouraging learning and driving positive impact through influence & respect
• Steer day-to-day execution. Through overseeing of team planning, in-flight work, technical design and prioritisation of opportunities, alongside the Product Manager
• Grow the Engineering function. You’ll hire new engineers into the team with the necessary skills to meet our goals, whilst holding a high bar for excellence
• Have an impact. We’re a growing startup – so expect to have a hand in everything from product decisions to company strategy

You’ll have;

• Prior experience as an Engineering Leader, responsible for an engineering function with either single or multi-disciplinary teams
• Been responsible for contributing to strategy and planning whilst also managing day-to-day execution and delivery
• Experience working in a cross-functional, product-led environment, contributing to product vision and strategy ideally within startup(s) at a similar stage of growth.
• A deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of scaling engineering capability and how to effectively navigate these
• Extensive experience managing the development and performance of a diverse team of software engineers in all aspects
• Previously worked as a senior-level software engineer and continue to hone your technical knowledge
• A natural desire to support and nurture others, and uncover ways to help them achieve their goals
• An innate sense of curiosity, with a keen interest in the product that your team are developing and in the operations of the wider business
• The ability to communicate and engage with a high level of EQ specific to the audience, allowing for strong collaboration

NB: We are ideally looking for someone who has been in a ‘Head of’ role or similar due to the scope of impact that we feel this role will have. If you’ve been an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager with very similar responsibilities, we encourage you to apply – please don’t let the job title put you off.