Head of Engineering, Visibly
£100-120k
Plus stock option plan
Upskilling and supervision app for field engineers
Open for applications
Upskilling and supervision app for field engineers
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£100-120k
Plus stock option plan
1-20 employees
Company mission
To give 1 billion deskless workers access to a private tutor experience so they can do the work our communities need.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced: You have demonstrable experience as a Lead Developer or Technical Lead, with a proven track record of guiding and mentoring an engineering team, coupled with significant hands-on technical experience in a cloud-native environment
- Full-Stack proficiency: Comfortable working across both the frontend and backend, with experience using Javascript (ideally Typescript) frameworks and libraries across both the frontend and backend, such as Node.js, ReactJS, and Next.js
- This includes experience building APIs, working with microservices, and translating product requirements into robust technical solutions
- Bonus points for any C# or Flutter experience
- Leadership: Strong ability to support, coach, and mentor your team, fostering their growth and development, while providing guidance to overcome challenges and unblock them when they get stuck
- Cloud-native: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g. , AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerisation technologies (e.g. , Docker, Kubernetes)
- You’ve led efforts to design and scale cloud-native architectures, and have experience with serverless technologies such as Lambda functions
- You know how to balance technical trade-offs while keeping business goals in focus
- Business impact: As a senior member of an early-stage startup, you’re excited by the opportunity to leverage your technical leadership to positively impact the business
- You understand how engineering decisions influence broader company goals and are motivated to drive technical and strategic success
- Excellence: Demonstrable experience writing clean, performant, and well-tested code while ensuring your team follows suit
- You lead by example in code quality, encouraging and upholding best practices across the team while delivering high-impact features
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, focusing on collaboration
- You are adept at working closely with product management to convert requirements into clear, actionable technical deliverables
- You excel at bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a positive and inclusive dialogue that drives cross-functional alignment
- Best practices: A strong understanding of modern, empowered software development processes and best practices, including experience working in a modern Agile Scrum environment
- You’ve led teams through iterative development cycles, ensuring high performance, accountability, and collaboration while driving the delivery of both the technical roadmap and key features in an agile, efficient manner
- Tech enthusiasm: A curious mindset with a genuine passion for technology
- You are always eager to explore the latest advancements and enjoy integrating new ideas to drive innovation within your team
- You inspire your team to stay ahead of the curve, balancing innovation with effective execution
- Problem-solving: Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with a small team, where complexity, unknowns, and ambiguity are part of the journey
- You enjoy collaborative problem-solving, approaching challenges with curiosity and a can-do attitude, asking "What's possible?”
What the job involves
- You'll play a pivotal role in the evolution of Visibly, guiding and levelling up our engineering organisation by leveraging both your extensive hands-on technical expertise and your engineering leadership experience
- You’ll manage a compact team of engineers, guiding, coaching, unblocking and mentoring them, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
- You’ll get stuck in with the technical design, development, and implementation of solutions across both frontend and backend
- You’ll own the engineering roadmap, working closely with product and leadership teams to prioritise and execute key initiatives, while pragmatically balancing speed with quality to ensure timely, high-impact delivery
- Ensure developers are clear on what they are technically delivering, working with them to break down tasks and tickets into clear, actionable technical deliverables
- You will effectively communicate both the wins and challenges the engineering team faces, ensuring transparency and alignment with the company and stakeholders to drive informed decision-making and foster collaboration
- Promote and drive continuous improvements in engineering processes and practices, including code quality, performance, observability, automated testing, security, and CI/CD
- Drive hiring and scaling efforts as the team grows
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The practical nature of field engineering means that trainees require in-person monitoring at all times, and this can be problematic. Budget limitations result in many engineers not receiving the upskilling that they need to deliver high-quality work, and this can have a negative impact on company compliance and employee retention.
Visibly provides an upskilling and supervision app for field engineering industries, allowing trainees to receive on-demand video supervision without the need for expensive and resource-heavy in-person monitoring. The company claims that its mobile application helps companies to improve the productivity and retention of staff, maintain compliance without on-site supervisors, and increase motivation for field engineers to produce high-quality work.
Whilst upskilling and training applications exist for almost every sector, Visibly has identified a gap in the market, specifically designing a platform that combats training inefficiencies in field engineering. The company’s technology solutions provide more independence to field engineers whilst maintaining support levels and helping to ensure companies that their staff are receiving the necessary training to complete jobs at a high and compliant standard.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Options starting at 0.5%
- Work from anywhere, any hours
- Five weeks of annual leave plus national holidays and birthday
- Private medical insurance
- MacBook and equipment to help you work from home
- Tailored learning and development opportunities
- Quarterly team off-sites (max of a week at a time)
Company values
- Leadership—If something isn’t right we take ownership. Team success is limited by the worst performer so we elevate each other.
- Smart—We're disposed towards learning. We adopt best practices, automate routine tasks and fix what's broken.
- Hard work—We're disciplined, professional, and focused. We’re competitive and resourceful, and when it’s needed, we put in the extra work.
- Humble—We’re self-aware, so we learn and improve fast. We know we’re talented, but embrace ideas from everywhere, particularly customers and users.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Kane St Quintin
(CEO)Experience as Chief Digital Officer of HAL Group from 2015 to 2017. Founder of Pickr from 2018 to 2021.
Thomas Remmert
(CTO)Experience as CTO for Pickr and UserReplay. Technology & Due Diligence Adviser for Octopus Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners, and Episode since 2013.
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