Head of Engineering

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Remote (UK)

Salary: £650 - £875 per day + overtime

Hours: 39 hours per week

Contract: Contract

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Since 1993, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the UK.

Role overview

The Head of Engineering will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Remote within the UK. The team meets in Cardiff once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Perks and benefits

• Flexible working hours.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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