VP of Engineering - Franklin Bates : Job Details

VP of Engineering

Hybrid (London) or remote working

£150,000 base salary + package

Take on an exciting new role as VP of Engineering, looking after a globally distributed team of circa 100 Engineers across 6 countries, within a thriving EdTech organisation’s SaaS product offering.

Requirements include:

• Background of working in SaaS product environments
• Experience of managing globally distributed Engineering teams of 80+ Engineers & QA
• Software engineering roots with current technical capabilities, and a breadth of development language experience for code and architecture
• Exceptional English communication skills
• Experience of (or interest in) working in a 'purpose-driven’ sector space, demonstrating people-centric values

With multiple products being developed by teams across different countries, each product with a different tech stack, this will be a challenging role in a complex environment which will allow you to thrive.

Providing technical and operational guidance will be at the core of this VP of Engineering role, elevating the management standards and capabilities of the 5-6 Engineering Managers reporting directly into you, whilst aligning and unifying technical scope, improving consistency for metrics and reporting, and driving technological advancement and scalability through strategic planning.

The VP of Engineering would be required to travel into Asia twice a year, Eastern Europe two-three times a year and on occasions possibly the US as well. Ideally candidates for the role would be able to be in the London office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, however the role can be adjusted to remote working if the preferred candidate is not within regular commuting distance of London.

*Please only apply for consideration if you have full, independent right to work in the UK and you are already living in the UK permanently due to no visa sponsorship or support with relocation to the UK being available.*

Franklin Bates is a leading IT recruitment consultancy specialising in Software Development, Cloud, & Data. We provide high quality contract, interim and permanent IT professionals to a broad range of technology companies within the UK.