Head of Engineering, Judge.me Ltd
£112-130k
MongoDB
AWS
JavaScript
Redis
Ruby
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Senior and Expert level
London
Tuesday & Thursday Office Days
2+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Re-building trust between merchants and consumers
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Re-building trust between merchants and consumers
21-100 employees
B2BMarket researchCustomer serviceBusiness IntelligenceSaaSMobile
Be an early applicant
£112-130k
MongoDB
AWS
JavaScript
Redis
Ruby
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Senior and Expert level
London
Tuesday & Thursday Office Days
2+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
21-100 employees
B2BMarket researchCustomer serviceBusiness IntelligenceSaaSMobile
Company mission
A World Trading With Confidence
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record leading and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth environment
- Strong hands-on technical background with significant experience in:
- Ruby on Rails ecosystem
- Modern JavaScript development
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- SQL databases at scale
- Excellence in technical communication and team leadership across distributed teams
- Experience implementing and scaling engineering practices (code review, testing, CI/CD)
- Track record of successful project delivery in fast-paced environments
- Strong understanding of system design principles and performance optimization
- Passion for both technical leadership and people management
Desirable
- E-commerce platforms or marketplace applications
- Infrastructure monitoring and observability (NewRelic, Grafana)
- Performance optimization at scale
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis)
- Background in implementing DevOps practices and automation
- Experience co-leading engineering organisations
- Knowledge of ML/AI implementation in production systems
What the job involves
- As our Head of Engineering, you'll co-lead our engineering organization alongside our Chief Architect
- While the Chief Architect leads architectural decisions, you'll focus on driving exponential team output through process excellence, engineering practices, and pragmatic automation
- We take an aggressive "All Use Cases" approach - continuously expanding our feature set to serve every merchant need, which requires innovative thinking about how to scale engineering output beyond just adding headcount. You will be instrumental in:
- Leading our engineering teams to rapidly ship high-impact features that keep Judge.me at the forefront of e-commerce
- Balancing rapid delivery with maintainable, high-quality code
- Implementing strategic technical initiatives, working closely with our Chief Architect
- Providing hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to maximize our team's effectiveness
- Partner with our technically-focused co-founder to shape Judge.me's engineering future
- You’ll join the ELT of a profitable, bootstrapped company that's the market leader in Shopify reviews
- Join at a pivotal time as we scale our engineering practices and technology
- Work with a talented, distributed team dedicated to helping merchants build trust
- Relentlessly identify and implement ways to multiply our engineering impact without proportionally increasing team size
- Champion our "All Use Cases" approach by finding creative ways to deliver more features faster
- Ruthlessly eliminate friction points that slow down delivery
- Leverage AI and automation to amplify team capabilities, not just streamline processes
- Create engineering leverage points where small improvements yield major output gains
- Build systems that allow us to say "yes" to more customer needs without sacrificing quality
- Work closely with our Chief Architect to implement architectural vision
- Champion our shift-left testing approach and quality practices across teams
- Drive code review culture and engineering best practices
- Support our gradual evolution toward a matured architecture through strong delivery practices
- Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams across multiple squads
- Optimise our Kanban-based development processes for maximum flow
- Identify and implement opportunities for automation and process improvement
- Collaborate with Delivery Lead to refine our SDLC and development practices
- Work closely with Product to rapidly ship high-impact features
- Supported by your Delivery lead, you’ll balance technical debt with feature delivery to maintain development momentum
- Drive decisions about build vs buy and technical implementation approaches
- Ensure seamless rollout of features across our merchant base
- Guide our technical roadmap to support business growth
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies where they add clear value
- Lead initiatives to improve system observability and performance
- Ensure our infrastructure scales efficiently with our growth
- Judge.me is at an exciting inflection point. As the market leader in Shopify reviews, we're trusted by merchants worldwide to help build customer confidence. This role offers a unique opportunity to co-lead our engineering organisation during a period of significant growth and technical evolution
- You'll join us as we modernise our engineering practices, strengthen our quality-first approach, and scale our systems to serve an ever-growing merchant base. Working alongside our Chief Architect, you'll shape not just how our team works, but how e-commerce merchants build trust with their customers globally
- This is a chance to make a lasting impact at a profitable, bootstrapped company where engineering excellence directly translates to merchant success. Whether it's refining our Kanban processes, championing shift-left testing, or building high-performing teams, your leadership will be instrumental in our next phase of growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2015, Judge.me is a reviews app that enables eCommerce brands to collect and then display product and sites reviews. It provides social proof so customers can shop with confidence.
With a mission to create more sales for businesses, the product reviews app empowers companies to leverage user-generated content to, in turn, boost conversation rate, organic traffic and buyer engagement. Whilst there are other players, including Yotpo and Loox, Judge.me boasts an affordable payment plan for its - upwards of 250,000 - customers.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
24% female employees
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2011
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Remote/Office working
- Company laptop
- Private health package with Vitality
- Employee Discounts via Reward Gateway (Instant vouchers, cashback, Reloadable Cards and SmartSpending App)
- Employee Wellbeing Centre Reward Gateway (Exercise Videos, Recipes & Nutrition, Financial Guides & Tools, Mindfulness Videos)
- 30 days leave + bank holidays - 2.5 annual leave days accrued per month
- Weekly team lunch out, on us
- Quarterly events
- Flexible work hours - within reason. No overtime
- No dress code, wear whatever you want (but wear something of course)
- 4 Weeks Working from Anywhere, every year
Company values
- Work Hard and Be Dependable
- Always Improving
- Be Open
- Be Down to Earth
- Share your Knowledge
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Peter-Jan Celis
(CEO)Previously served as Head of Marketing for DocDoc Pte. Ltd.
Linh Dam
(CTO)Previously served as Fullstack Rails Developer for HipVan and East Agile.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Judge.me Ltd
- At Judge.me, we are inspired by the diverse and unique backgrounds and perspectives of each and every one of our team. We always hire the best candidate, regardless of their age, identity, or background. We are proud to have a super diverse workforce and employees from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
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