Head of Engineering, Arctic Shores
£100-115k
+ Share Options Scheme
1-5 days a week in office (Bruntwood SciTech, Manchester)
Behaviour-based assessments for recruitment
Open for applications
Behaviour-based assessments for recruitment
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£100-115k
+ Share Options Scheme
1-5 days a week in office (Bruntwood SciTech, Manchester)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give every individual the opportunity to show their potential, and every employer the means to see it.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re excited by leading a team where you can genuinely shape the future of our platform and how it can evolve to support the business, this could be your role
- You might already be a Head of Engineering looking for more autonomy and purpose. Or you might be an experienced Engineering Manager or Tech Lead ready for your first Head of role
- Have a strong JVM background (Scala, Kotlin or Java) particularly using functional programming principles
- Possess a strong testing mindset with experience in TDD and CI/CD practices
- Are experienced with AWS and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform)
- Have knowledge of event-driven architecture and API design
- Feel confident to jump into different aspects of our code base, orient yourself and remove blockers for the team
- Are motivated to coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s and collaboration
- Think about platform reliability, security, and cost efficiency as much as feature delivery
- Like solving complex problems collaboratively and pragmatically
What the job involves
- At Arctic Shores, we’re creating a world of work where potential matters more than experience
- Our market-leading, task-based psychometric assessments help organisations like Amazon, Siemens and Jet2 make fair, evidence-based hiring decisions. We’ve doubled ARR year-on-year for the past three years and are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the next chapter
- This is a rare chance to lead engineering at a purpose-driven scale-up where technical excellence truly matters
- You’ll lead a small, high-calibre team of Software Developers and DevSecOps engineers working on a Scala microservice architecture running on Kubernetes in AWS. It's built following strict functional design principles, TDD and CI/CD pipelines to automatically deploy to production
- You’ll combine people leadership with technical evolution of the platform through guiding team architecture discussions, balancing quality with pragmatism, and ensuring our platform remains secure, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient as we grow
- Reporting to the Chief Product & Service Delivery Officer, you’ll partner closely with Product, Psychometric Innovation, Professional Services and Support to represent the engineering point of view in all strategy discussions
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team, aligning capacity to the roadmap and closing capability gaps
- Shape technical direction championing best practice, guiding architecture and code quality, and aligning engineering with company strategy
- Own delivery and reliability ensuring secure, scalable releases while optimising AWS costs
- Partner cross-functionally with Product and customer-facing teams to deliver roadmap outcomes and ensure technical excellence
Application process
- The closing date for applications is Monday 9th March 2026
- Our hiring process includes but is not limited to:
- Short application form
- Our task-based assessment (you’ll receive instant feedback)
- “Get to know you” conversations
- Technical test and/or technical interview
- Panel interview, incl. Leadership style questions
- We’re interested in how you think, how you lead, and how you build, not just the logos on your CV
Our take
With the vision to creating a more diverse and fulfilled workforce, Arctic Shores helps companies make more objective and informed hiring choices, and people make better career decisions. It does this by combining neuroscience, AI and game technology.
The company's science-backed psychometric assessments disrupt the candidate selection process by putting more value on "soft-skills". The tests generate behavioural insights, and can be used to reduce the barriers to entry for talent, widen hiring pools, increase excellence, and save both time and money for recruiting companies.
Arctic Shores has attracted customers including the likes of BBC, PwC, Siemens and Capita, and has partnered with other innovators in the space including SmartRecruiters and Teamtailor. Considerable funds raised by the company will enable it to expand across Europe, delivering more productive, engaged recruiters, and faster, fairer hires.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2023
$7.8m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$5.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $13.3m
Company benefits
- 28 days holiday per year, plus public holidays. You'll also get an additional day for every year's service at Arctic Shores, up to four years
- Private medical and mental health cover with Vitality for all our Explorers, as well as 2 mental wellbeing days each year
- Aviva pension scheme, offering 3% employer and 5% employee contributions (calculated on full salary)
- Personal Development budget
- Share Options scheme
- Cycle2Work scheme
- Flexible & remote working
- Hubs in central London and Manchester
- A laptop, monitor, and anything else you need to work comfortably and productively
- One "Own Day" each month – a day for you to work on a personal project, to read, research, or develop new skills
Company HQ
Central Retail District, Manchester, UK
Leadership
Robert Newry
(Chief Explorer & Co-founder)Previously Director of Operations at Ricoh HK for 2 years. Co-founded NewField IT.
Safe Hammad
(Advisor & Co-founder)Previously worked as a Senior Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs, and as a Software Developer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Estelle McCartney
(CEO)Joined the company as Chief Customer Officer in 2020, becoming Chief Growth Officer then CEO in 2025. Previously Managing Partner at Instinctif Partners and Champollion.
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