Head of Engineering

Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership: Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for our product engineering, aligning with overall business objectives
- Team leadership and development: Lead, mentor, and inspire a growing team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration and high performance. Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews and support career development
- Technical excellence: Champion best practices in software engineering, architecture, testing, and deployment. Ensuring the scalability, reliability, security and performance of our products
- Product collaboration: Work closely and collaboratively with the Product team to translate product vision into technical requirements and deliver impactful solutions. Act as a key technical advisor to the product roadmap
- Process improvement: optimise and streamline our software development lifecycle, improving efficiency, predictability, and quality
- Futureproofing and innovation: drive the exploration and adoption of new technologies and methodologies, particularly in the areas of data analytics and Artificial Intelligence, to enhance our product capabilities
- Architectural guidance: provide strong architectural guidance for our Laravel-based applications, ensuring robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions
- Quality assurance and testing leadership: oversee and enhance our QA and testing strategic, methodologies, and processes to ensure high-quality software releases
- UX/UI leadership: guide the UX/UI team, ensuring user-centred design principles are integrated throughout the product lifecycle, resulting in intuitive and engaging user experiences and a common design language across all products

Who are we?
Pagabo Group is the parent organisation for a group of cross-industry businesses including national procurement specialist Pagabo, leading construction management software organisation Sypro, and social value software and consultancy organisation Loop.
Pagabo Group’s mission is to utilise technology and innovative thinking to bring a better, faster and greener approach within its core markets including the built environment and construction sectors. The group structure provides a platform for growth and opportunity for the businesses to work together sharing knowledge and expertise, and working together to create a better future for all.
Pagabo Group is an equal opportunities employer.
The role
We are seeking an experienced Head of Engineering to lead our talented engineering team. This is a strategic leadership role, perfect for someone who wants to build high-performing teams, champion technical excellence, and shape the future of our products. While this is not a hands-on coding role, you will be instrumental in setting our technical direction, optimising our engineering processes and fostering a culture of innovation.
You will play a critical role in defining and executing the technical roadmap for the next generation of our products. As we establish robust foundations in software engineering and deployment, you will also be key in exploring and implementing data-driven strategies and leveraging Artificial Intelligence to enhance our offerings and unlock new possibilities.
Skills / Experience Required:
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Proven experience in a senior engineering leadership role
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Demonstrable experience leading and scaling engineering teams
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Familiarity with PHP and the Laravel framework is beneficial but not required – we use them to build our products, and welcome candidates with comparable experience in other modern frameworks or languages
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Strong understanding of modern software architecture principles and design patterns
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Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, but AWS or GCP experience is highly relevant)
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A strategic mindset with the ability to define and execute long-term technical roadmaps
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Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with product, design and other business functions
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A passion for leveraging data and emerging technologies to drive product innovation
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Experience with agile methodologies
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A commitment to fostering a positive, inclusive and high-performing team culture

What’s On Offer:
- Salary £75K depending on experience
- Performance related incentives
- Company pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Access to Employees Assistance Programme
- 1 paid volunteer day per year
- Private medical insurance (following probation) dental and optical included
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, 1 day off for birthday
- Paid Christmas leave
- Hybrid working
- Study package and development plan to be agreed (following probation)
- Casual dress
- Social events
- Recognition awards
- Enhanced families’ policy
- Free meals and refreshments
- Real living wage paying company
- B Corp certificate
For more information or an informal chat about the role contact:
To Apply, please send your CV and Covering Letter to: