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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in engineering leadership, focusing on operational excellence, team development, and strategic alignment with business outcomes. Proven ability to manage and mentor engineering leaders while fostering a high-performance culture across distributed teams.
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Engineering LeadershipTypeScript Ecosystem ExperienceCloud Infrastructure and DevOps PracticesIncident Management and MonitoringBuilding Engineering Operations
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringTechnical Strategy DevelopmentEngineering Operations ImprovementDelivery Process OptimizationIncident Response PracticesPerformance ManagementSuccession PlanningAI-Driven SaaS ProductsNLPLLMs
Soft Skills
CoachingTeam DevelopmentCross-Team CollaborationHigh-Performance Culture BuildingInclusive Leadership
Tools & Technologies
TypeScriptReactNestJSExpressPythonKubernetesTerraform
Industry Keywords
SaaSEnterprise SoftwareGlobal Team ManagementOperational ExcellenceContinuous Improvement
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudKubernetesPythonReactTerraformTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own and evolve AutogenAI's technical strategy and engineering roadmap in collaboration with the Chief Technical Architect
- Act as a senior technical voice at leadership level and shape the Build operational strategy with the Chief People Officer and GTM
- Represent Engineering in customer-facing scoping sessions with top Enterprise clients
- Make and own high-stakes decisions affecting the engineering organisation
- Review, evolve, and improve engineering delivery processes, standards, on-call and incident practices, and cross-team ways of working
- Own engineering-wide operational excellence, including monitoring, triage, incident response, and recovery practices across a 24-hour global footprint
- Establish metrics and reporting for engineering health, delivery predictability, and team performance
- Directly manage and develop 2–3 Tech Leads through coaching, career development, and performance management
- Hold accountability for the performance, growth, and wellbeing of the wider approximately 15-person developer team
- Develop an engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and quality
- Build technical leadership talent and succession planning
- Lead a global organisation across London, NYC, Washington DC, and Gold Coast
- Partner with Product and Design leadership to integrate engineering, product, and design strategy
- Represent Engineering in company-wide leadership discussions, budgeting, and planning cycles
- Define engineering standards, best practices, and knowledge-sharing across a distributed multi-region team
- Drive continuous improvement and resolve systemic pain points across teams
- Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture supporting rapid growth, codebase health, and team wellbeing
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in senior engineering leadership roles (e.g. Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Engineering Manager of Managers)
- Demonstrated experience managing other engineering leaders (Tech Leads/EMs), not just direct management of individual engineers
- Proven experience leading engineering organisations at scale, including leading through other leaders
- Track record of building and improving engineering operations, delivery processes, incident management, monitoring, and reliability practices in a fast-scaling environment
- Experience (or strong aptitude for) leading distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones
- Ability to connect technical strategy to business outcomes and operate at senior leadership level alongside Product, Design and People leadership
- Experience managing managers and building succession pipelines
- Strong technical background; TypeScript ecosystem experience highly relevant
- Track record of driving significant organisational or technical change
- Strong technical grounding, ideally with TypeScript-based stacks (React, NestJS, Express) and/or Python
- Comfort with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices such as Kubernetes and Terraform
- Demonstrated experience building engineering operations, incident management, monitoring, and delivery processes in a scaling SaaS environment
- Comfortable operating at senior leadership level, reporting into and partnering with C-suite/People leadership
- Experience driving quality and speed of an Enterprise SaaS product during a high-growth phase (e.g. Series B–D or equivalent)
- Prior experience with AI-driven SaaS products, NLP, or LLMs
Benefits
Comp & perks- Meaningful equity in the company
- Pension scheme to help secure your future
- Unlimited vacation
- Remote working arrangements
- Bupa Medical and Dental cover
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave: 16 weeks if you’ve just given birth, 4 weeks if your partner has just given birth (after one year of year of service)
- Your choice of laptop (Mac or Windows)
- Regular company events to connect with teammates
- Opportunities for continued professional development