Vice President of Engineering, Lottie
£150-172.5k
+ EMI share offering
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, London)
A family's trusted guide to later life care
Job no longer available
A family's trusted guide to later life care
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£150-172.5k
+ EMI share offering
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To elevate later life for everybody.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years engineering experience with a proven track record in leadership roles
- Inspirational leader who is outcome driven and has an “anything is possible” mindset
- Hands-on technical leader that can still operate across the whole spectrum from strategy through to coding
- Has worked with complex software systems - both front-end and back-end and understands the importance of good data structures, scalable architecture and a constantly evolving tech stack
- Enjoys high levels of autonomy and is excited by leading a fast growing engineering org, as well as working with other leadership to deliver on Lottie’s commercial goals
- Proven track record in delivering within cross functional teams and in-depth knowledge of B2B/B2C product product development
- Experience in building e-commerce and/or marketplaces businesses
- Detailed understanding of performance and SEO marketing
- Commercially minded and is able to effectively translate business targets into engineering department OKR’s
What the job involves
- Having grown to become the UK’s no. 1 care directory with over 1 million monthly users and over 5,000 care services, Lottie's founders are looking for a hands-on technology VP of Engineering to join Lottie for its scale-up stage of its journey (including overseas expansion) and to take full ownership of the engineering department
- This individual will join Lottie’s executive team and will be expected to work closely with the Co-Founder & CEO, as well as other senior leadership to deliver on Lottie’s commercial goals and to drive product velocity - in pursuit of pioneering the world’s first transactional marketplace for care
- The successful candidate will be given full responsibility of Lottie’s engineering department including org development, technical decision making and ensuring that we are building a scalable platform for the future
- Reporting to CEO
- Leading and developing a fast growing engineering org which currently consists of 20 engineers spanning across 4 cross functional product teams
- Managing all lead engineers (engineering managers) and supporting them in their career growth, as well as their teams learning and development
- Owning all technical decision making and overseeing the building of a future scalable platform that can expand overseas
- Leveraging the latest technologies to solve the right problems (think things like Qwik, Sanity, tRPC etc)
- Drive engineering excellence including high efficiency of teams and development speed, with a strong focus on outcomes and impact
- Creating a product engineering culture, aligning engineering against our northstar metrics from ideation, to prototyping, collaborating closely with the wider platform teams and getting features out into production
- Building a market leading tech brand and hiring outstanding engineers, striving for excellence across the board
- Fostering a fantastic team culture, built on Lottie’s core values of Ownership, Impact and Nimbleness
- Partnering with the founders and other senior leadership (e.g. Head of Marketing, Head of Data Analytics, Head of Product, Head of Design, Head of Commercial) to make key strategic decisions and facilitate the growth of the company
- Presenting strategic updates and progress in important meetings such as board meetings and company team days
Application process
- Talent screen led by Head of Talent
- Hiring manager interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO)
- Culture interview with several members of Lottie’s senior team
- Technical assessment interview
- Final interview with founders and one other representative from Lottie’s board
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Choosing a care home is often a hugely daunting, complex, and expensive process, coming at a time that's already stressful enough. What's more, the UK's ageing population is growing at an increasing rate, putting more strain on social care than ever before. The result is that 44% of care seekers often ultimately regret their choice of care home, something that has had increasing attention since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lottie aims to address this in part by simplifying the process of finding the perfect care home for every individual's specific needs. Its online marketplace gives users all the tools to select and compare the UK's best-performing care homes, taking into account CQC reports, facilities, treatment methods, and location.
Having received investment, Lottie aims to continue its growth to reshape the future of the care industry. It is doing so with a strong emphasis on data and real-time information, collecting datasets that will be vital not just to its business operations, but potentially to the UK government and healthcare policy too.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% female employees
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Everyone is encouraged and empowered to use their own experiences and ideas to add value to the team in their respective departments. Lottie is very..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$21m
SERIES A
Jul 2022
$7.6m
SEED
Total funding: $32.4m
Company benefits
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Everyone owns equity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cashplan
- Wellness budget
- L&D budget
- A 3-night stay at Unplugged
- 2-weeks Work from anywhere
- 20-weeks full pay for Primary Parental Leave
- 8-weeks full pay for Secondary Parental Leave
- 2-weeks unpaid Carers Leave
- 5-days paid leave for those going through the IVF process
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Compassionate Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Quarterly team events
Company values
- Ownership
- Impact
- Nimbleness
- Kindness
Company HQ
Bermondsey, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Will Donnelly
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Lottie, Will spent 5-years at CBRE, where they advised on £2.5bn of healthcare transactions, supported the NHS during COVID-19, and established themself as a leading global later living expert.
Chris Donnelly
(Co-Founder)Before Lottie, Chris founded and successfully grew Verb into one of the world's most recognised luxury digital agencies with a global client base including Bugatti, Jimmy Choo & Net A Porter.
People progressing
Hannah joined Lottie as the company's first Care Expert (Customer Care) following spells in the charity and tech sectors. Since joining, Hannah has been promoted a number of times and is now the Customer Care Lead.
Ruby started as a 4-week Care Expert Intern during University, which was extended. After 1.5 years in the Care Expert team, Ruby moved over to the Marketing team to pursue her career in Social Media!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lottie
Holly Leckenby Rye (Senior People Manager)
- Fostering an inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels valued and respected
- A wide range of inclusive benefits and policies
- Religious and cultural practices and holidays celebrated
- Job descriptions with inclusive language
- Quarterly anonymous employee engagement surveys
- Bias-free Performance Reviews with quantitive measures in place
- Employee Assistance Programmes
- A diverse social calendar to be inclusive of all employees
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