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The company is recruiting a senior leader to run its Client Engineering organisation, which is responsible for the health and delivery of the mobile and web…
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The company is recruiting a senior leader to run its Client Engineering organisation, which is responsible for the health and delivery of the mobile and web apps. The group brings together architecture, developer productivity and quality assurance teams. The director manages engineering managers and works with a group of staff engineers on the hardest technical problems. The director sets technical direction and standards for the frontend. Duties include shaping a…
Job Description
The company is recruiting a senior leader to run its Client Engineering organisation, which is responsible for the health and delivery of the mobile and web apps. The group brings together architecture, developer productivity and quality assurance teams. The director manages engineering managers and works with a group of staff engineers on the hardest technical problems.
The director sets technical direction and standards for the frontend. Duties include shaping a practical frontend strategy, clearing bottlenecks in the large monorepo, and assessing whether the tooling and team model suit business goals. The role also covers visibility of product behaviour across configurations, a modern release engineering model with frequent and predictable deployments, and exploring how AI and agentic tools could improve frontend performance and member experiences.
The ideal candidate has led large engineering organisations and is at ease with high-scale frontend architecture. The listing values a pragmatist who is not tied to a single framework, has raised efficiency and modernised mobile release cycles, and can explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues.
The current stack uses Flutter and Dart for mobile, Angular for web, Java 17 and above with Spring Boot on the backend, PostgreSQL and MySQL, Kafka and AWS SQS and SNS, plus Kubernetes on AWS. Delivery and monitoring rest on GitHub Actions, LaunchDarkly, DataDog and Firebase. The role is based in London and is marked on-site.
Responsibilities
- Lead Client Engineering, spanning architecture, developer productivity and quality work
- Set frontend technical direction and standards for mobile and web
- Manage engineering managers and work with the staff engineer community
- Clear bottlenecks in large-scale monorepo workflows
- Oversee a modern release engineering model with frequent, predictable deployments
- Improve visibility of the product experience across configurations
- Explore how AI and agentic tools can improve frontend performance and member experiences
Requirements
- Experience leading significant engineering organisations
- Comfort with high-scale frontend architecture
- Strong grasp of frontend best practice without being tied to one framework
- Evidence of raising productivity and updating how mobile releases ship
- Systems thinking that links technical foundations to team velocity
- Ability to make and explain trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders
Qualifications
- Experience with Flutter, Angular or Java and Spring Boot stacks (helpful, not required)
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and share options
- Ample holiday allowance beyond public holidays
- Paid parental and adoption leave and sabbatical options
- Salary sacrifice schemes, including nursery and cycle-to-work
- Private family health insurance, life and accident cover and mental wellbeing support
- Pension scheme based on eligible earnings
- Paid volunteering and development days, plus a learning budget
- Overseas working for up to 90 days yearly and a home office allowance
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Where is this role based?
The listing states London and marks the position as on-site, with overseas working for up to 90 days a year also offered.
What does the director manage?
The director leads engineering managers in architecture, developer productivity and quality assurance.
Is a salary stated?
The posting does not state a salary. It mentions competitive salary and share options.
What technology is used?
The stack includes Flutter and Dart for mobile, Angular for web, and Java with Spring Boot on the backend, deployed on Kubernetes and AWS.
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