Head of Engineering

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Hawkwright employs 2,500 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Role overview:

Hawkwright is hiring for the Head of Engineering role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This role is fully remote within the UK. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

In this role you will:

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.

Why work with us:

• Private medical insurance.
• Company pension.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Death in service benefit.
• Share options.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hawkwright.