Head of Engineering, Birda

• Experience leading teams at a startup that build and maintain mobile apps, ideally React Native
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years leading teams at a startup/scale-up
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• A track record of shipping and maintaining high-quality consumer products at scale
• Experience growing and managing a lean, high-performing engineering team
• Ability to set processes and best practices that support rapid iteration without sacrificing stability
• A data-driven mindset—able to make quick decisions while staying open to being proven wrong
• Strong, well-informed opinions about what makes a great engineering team—shaped by experience, but held lightly enough to evolve with new evidence
• A pragmatic, hands-on approach—this is not a purely strategic role; you’ll need to be in the code too

Desirable

• Make key decisions about our tech stack, architecture, tooling, and infrastructure, ensuring we remain scalable and performant
• Balance speed, quality, and maintainability, ensuring we make pragmatic trade-offs when necessary
• Foster a high-trust, outcome-driven engineering culture where experimentation, data-driven decisions, and learning from failure are encouraged
• Hire, coach, and develop a tight-knit, high-impact engineering team
• Set up best-in-class engineering processes that allow us to iterate quickly while maintaining stability
• Define and own Birda’s long-term engineering vision and roadmap
• Create a culture of strong opinions, weakly held—making fast, confident decisions while staying open to new data
• Promote a collaborative, low-ego, high-output team environment
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Leadership to prioritise and ship high-impact features
• Take ownership of performance, security, and scalability across the platform
• Use data and analytics to continuously refine and optimise our technology stack