We are looking for an experienced technical leader who gets excited about leading and empowering teams to build things no one has ever done before. We have unique commercial and scaling problems to overcome, and we need some great problem solvers and leaders to tackle hard technical challenges. The ideal candidate has years of commercial experience in a leadership role solving problems in a secure, scalable and maintainable way. We are pragmatic about using the best tool to solve the problem at hand and candidates will be expected to take a lead role in building out our core technology stacks working across multiple languages and frameworks. Role requirements: - Proven experience leading team(s) in designing, building, delivering and maintaining applications with experience covering both frontend and backend - Experience with stakeholder management both internally and externally - Experience owning processes that structure codebases in a maintainable and easily understood way. To follow and advocate for best practices and conventions along with the ability to coach and mentor other developers - Experience with web frameworks (Rails, Django or similar framework) - Experience in operating large systems (following an SRE approach or similar). Promoting observability and metrics lead approach to driving scalability and operational excellence - Ability to reason with and create models that accurately reflect business requirements, and the ability to turn this into elegant and maintainable code. You should assess and implement the various dependencies, identify where they might lead to future issues, and mitigate them - Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms) Additional experience: - Professional experience with Rails (our default web stack) - Professional experience with a lower level language - Eg. C, C++, Rust - Streaming data experience in a real time or near real time context. Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis or similar - Experience with OpenCV, FFMPEG and/or other image and video manipulation tools - Experience with cloud deployment strategies utilising Kubernetes