Director of Engineering, Multiverse
Core Services, Platform & Developer Experience
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Upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption
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Upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams in a scaling tech company, with a strong understanding of backend services, cloud systems, and DevEx
- A track record of improving developer experience and building systems that reduce toil and increase leverage
- A deep interest in how AI can augment engineering workflows—and experience helping teams adopt these tools thoughtfully and sustainably
- Comfort working in and evolving service-oriented/event driven architectures, and a solid grounding in modern infrastructure practices (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills. You can connect across disciplines and levels and lead with empathy and clarity
- Experience managing managers
Desirable
- Familiarity with developer platforms that support machine learning, data, or applied AI
- Experience with Backstage or other internal developer portals
- Exposure to platform support for ML/LLM workflows
- Comfort with evolving systems from monoliths to modular architecture
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on, thoughtful engineering leader to lead our Core Services, Platform, Infrastructure, and Developer Experience teams
- These teams are foundational to how engineering happens at Multiverse—they build the systems and tools that underpin our product architecture, and they shape how all engineers build, ship, and operate software
- You’ll be working closely with other engineering leaders, product managers, and technical ICs to evolve our platform and engineering culture, while supporting teams to do their best work
- This is a strategic role with high impact—but it’s also grounded in collaboration, technical leadership, and real-world delivery
- You’ll play a key role in setting direction and helping teams adopt these tools in a way that’s pragmatic, human-centered, and high-leverage
- Lead and support multiple teams across platform engineering, internal tools, DevEx, and core services
- Partner with engineers, product teams, and security to ensure our foundation is reliable, scalable, and empowering—not restrictive
- Drive the evolution of our internal platform, from service templates to paved paths to generative tooling. Guide our infrastructure as code strategy
- Expand our use of AI-native tools (e.g. copilots, intelligent observability, auto-remediation, test generation) to make teams more effective
- Drive the evolution of our infrastructure—cloud-native, secure by default, observable, and easy to reason about
- Improve how engineers at Multiverse build, test, and ship code—ensuring fast feedback loops, low-friction tooling, and clear quality standards
- Help us build and maintain systems that are easy to operate and resilient by design
- Foster an inclusive, growth-oriented culture that values impact over perfection and gives engineers space to thrive
- Actively mentor and grow other engineering leaders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In today's tech-driven workplace, skills like digital marketing, software engineering, product design, and data analysis are pivotal. Traditional pathways to acquiring these skills are evolving, with coding schools like Makers Academy challenging the necessity of a formal Computer Science degree.
Recognizing the need for inclusive pathways, apprenticeships have gained prominence, spurred by government mandates like the 2016 levy. Multiverse (formerly WhiteHat) exemplifies this shift, offering opportunities for all to reskill and thrive in the tech industry.
Embracing a mission of accessibility and innovation, Multiverse's recent strategic moves, including acquiring Californian AI firm, Searchlight and attracting top-tier talent, underscores its commitment to excellence. Partnering with industry giants like Google and Facebook, Multiverse is driving transformative change, democratizing access to tech education.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
70 people
Gary, Chief Learning Officer
Our mission
Unlocking economic opportunity and potential for individuals and orgs by closing skill gaps through measured, applied, guided and equitable learning.Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Whether that's the content in the course you are teaching of which you're developing a deeper understanding, weekly CPD (continuous professional..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$130m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414m
Company benefits
- Quarterly M-Powered Days to refresh and recharge
- End of Year Company Shut Down
- A focus on wellbeing with access to Spill therapy support, an Employee Assistance Programme and an internal Wellbeing working group.
- 45 days of work from abroad per year
- Free access to Wellhub's Starter, Basic and Bronze plans (free gym + more)
- 27 days holiday, plus 1 life event day and 2 volunteer days
- Full Medical Insurance coverage through Bupa, and your medical history is disregarded.
- Life Insurance coverage through AIG. This benefit pays out 3x your base salary to your beneficiaries.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme enables bike ownership with up to 42% savings
- Tech scheme: you can purchase new electronics, including accessories, up to £1,000, and spread the cost through 12 interest-free monthly repayments.
- Workplace Nursery benefit is provided by Enjoy Benefits and is there to help employees with the cost of childcare at a nursery setting.
Company values
- We believe in equality of opportunity
- We treat others as we want to be treated
- We adopt an owner mentality
- Development is at our core
- We make decisions based on facts and logic
- We don’t take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Euan Blair
(CEO)Prior to founding Multiverse, Euan was the UK CEO of Sarina Russo Group, an employment and training provider with more than 1,500 staff worldwide and a turnover exceeding £100 million.
People progressing
Peppa is VP of Go-To-Market, UK&I. She joined Multiverse as an Account Executive in the Go To Market Team and was promoted to Regional Director within 7 months, then progressed to Area Vice President.
People breakdown
13%
11%
6%
68%
2%
Asian
Black or African American
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
Unknown
Last updated on 10 September 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Multiverse
Serena Vaughan (Career Mobility Lead)
- We want to be a leader in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), so we’re working hard to drive the change we want to see in the world, inside Multiverse.
- Everything we do in the DEI space is undertaken with the goal of being representative of the geographies in which we operate – and our apprentice community. Gender diversity has been a long-term challenge for the tech world. We're proud that 55% of our UK Team identify as women, this increases to 64% of our Global Leadership Team (director level and above). We're also proud of our thriving LGBTQQIAAP community, comprising 11% of our UK Team.
- We're committed to improving the diversity of our workforce, at all levels. We continue to invest in early talent through our in-house apprenticeship scheme – something we know is a fantastic route into our organization for exceptional talent from a diversity of backgrounds.
- Last year we identified improving the diversity of our Global Leadership Team (director level+) internally as an area of focus. Steps that we took included introducing robust DEI monitoring processes, rolling out Inclusive Recruitment Training to all staff involved in the hiring, and launching our first internal, Global Leadership Accelerator program.
- We’re proud that in the last 12 months, the representation of colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds at director+ levels, globally, has increased from 6% to 19%. This is good progress but we still have work to do and are committed to building a leadership team that is representative of our colleagues and of the communities we serve.
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