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Head of Engineering • London London


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  • Next Gate Tech
  • London
  • 3 days ago

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Making sure you fit the guidelines as an applicant for this role is essential, please read the below carefully.Benefits

26 vacation days + 1 birthday day + 1 duvet day, so you can truly recharge and enjoy lifeComprehensive health and dental care coverageCentral location for both offices with a fully stocked kitchen, including healthy snacks, and fresh fruitFreedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team in search of excellenceProfessional Development programs to expand your skills, and maximize your potential on the frontier of financial innovation

About Next Gate Tech At Next Gate Tech, we create technologies that reshape the landscape of the fund industry operations.We empower our clients by capturing the full potential of harmonised data to drive intelligent and fully automated operations. Our transformative solutions optimise processes, enhance efficiency, reduce risks, and drive cost savings for our clients.Driven by our commitment to innovation, our intelligence layer extracts invaluable insights, employs advanced pattern analysis spotting anomalies, and uncovers hidden links within the data.Our modular, one-stop-shop, SaaS platform seamlessly ingests diverse datasets, creating a harmonised and enriched source of portfolios, transactions, and accounting data. This robust foundation fuels the platform to generate powerful signals through intelligent analytics, empowering a multitude of use cases.Next Gate Tech is not just a part of the industry's evolution - it is a driving force behind it.Learn more about us:

Our story, values, mission and team:https://nextgatetech.com/aboutOurunified platform and technology:https://nextgatetech.com/platformOursolutions and use cases:https://nextgatetech.com/

About You Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, possibilities, and ambiguity. Before you apply, consider if you:

Are a builder — you love to create and are driven by the satisfaction of bringing ideas to life through technologyCan take initiative in articulating complex concepts in a concise and clear mannerHave high commitment to making an impact, adding value, and embracing continuous learningCare deeply about your contribution to disrupting an industry as we know it

About The Role We are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Head of Engineering to lead the technical vision for our growing engineering team. This role is essential for driving the technical strategy, fostering innovation, and ensuring the development of scalable, high-quality solutions.The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with strong experience in technical design, data architecture, cloud infrastructure, and building scalable products as well as modern software development processes and product lifecycle management.Responsibilities include:

Define and execute the technical roadmap in collaboration with the CTO and CPO, ensuring alignment with the overall company vision and product strategyLead, coach, and develop a high-performing (product) engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellenceOversee the technical design and architecture of the platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and resilience. Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to ensure that our tech stack remains ahead of the curvePartner closely with Product, Client, and Operations teams to deliver innovative, high-quality productsDevelop and implement best practices for software development and infrastructure that allow for the efficient processing and analysis of large datasetsImplement and refine engineering processes, including agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and code reviews, ensuring continuous improvement and efficient deliveryFoster a culture of experimentation and innovation to explore new solutions to industry challenges, focusing on data analytics, automation, and machine learning applicationsAct as the engineering representative to senior leadership and external stakeholders, providing updates on progress, challenges, and opportunitiesQualifications:10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, preferably within high-growth startups or scale-up, product-led environments that are data-intensive and/or have strong exposure to AI/ML technologiesStrong hands-on experience in system design, data architecture, cloud platforms (GCP or AWS), and building scalable distributed systems. Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust) and exposure to the application of AI technologiesProven experience in building and leading high-performing engineering teams, with a focus on creating a positive and collaborative work environmentExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on finding scalable and efficient solutions to complex technical challengesStrong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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