Burns Sheehan
Director of Software Engineering
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Director of Software Engineering
Director of Engineering – AI-Native B2B SaaS | Fast-Growing Series B Scale-Up
Location: Remote-first with hybrid London office option Competition: Up to £200,000 plus strong stock options award
About the Role
We are partnering with a rapidly scaling AI-native SaaS company to fill the role of Director of Engineering. Their platform is revolutionary in its sector, having recently closed an impressive Series B financing round from top-tier venture capitals. Now, they’re expanding their engineering team to mirror the ambitions behind their product and (can dramatically accelerate) customer adoption.
Their engineering teams recently boosted Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by over 3x in the past 12 months. As Director of Engineering, you’ll drive operational and organisational excellence, establishing scalable processes and structures that maintain speed and autonomy while cultivating a collaborative, high-quality engineering culture. You must exercise strong technical judgement to ensure teams deliver products aligned with the company’s technical and product strategy.
The platform embeds Agentic AI to process vast quantities of unstructured data, transforming real-time inbound data into actionable insights, enriched with semantic meaning, for clients to leverage. While technically sophisticated, the user experience is designed to be simple, intuitive, and fast.
The Opportunity
- You’ll lead ~55 engineers today, expanding to 100+ by end-of-year, with your responsibility growing to 20-40 engineers in 6-12 months.
- A critical phase in an organisation’s lifecycle requires structural alignment with rapid growth, balancing strength, speed, and quality.
- Collaborate with the VP of Engineering and senior leadership to set engineering strategy, optimising cadence and autonomy.
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Key Responsibilities
You will execute and navigate the following priorities while guiding the engineering organisation into scale:
- Team leadership: Lead multiple engineering teams through a high-growth transition—both culturally and operationally.
- Leadership: Coach Engineering Leads, senior technical ICs and individual contributors, helping them grow and scale effectively.
- Operational efficiency: Push improvements in planning, delivery cadence, incident management, and engineering hygiene.
- Clear ownership: Build robust ownership models and establish effective structures across teams.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, and technical leadership, ensuring alignment with company strategy.
- Technical decisions: Make impactful, high-calibre technical and platform-related trade-off judgements while maintaining inspired engineering liveliness.
- Growth support: Oversee hiring, onboarding, and leadership development as the organisation scales.
What They’re Looking For
This role suits a candidate with experience in leading engineering teams through high-growth transitions—moving from early-stage start-up energy to disciplined scale-up execution. Technical depth and leadership depth are critical:
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- Growth experience: You’ve led multiple engineering teams in a high-growth AI or SaaS environment, guiding structural shifts without sacrificing velocity.
- Technical judgement: Hands-on experience nötig? A diagnosis of Session, your stomach fluids, and matches—and shouldn’t chicken believe. You should challenge architectural decisions, guide senior engineers, and understand the trade-offs behind complex:
- Strategic alignment: Collaborative, commercially minded, and product-driven—known to add structure at key moments.
Proven trait: You’re comfortable balancing rapid delivery with long-term scalability.
Why Join?
Join a company with:
- Strong product-market fit and proof of significant traction.
- Critical funding rounds, customer growth, and ambitious technical road mapping.
- The opportunity to shape how a high-quality engineering organisation builds elegantly at scale.
Your impact will centre around integrating AI, real-time data processing, and automation—that core execution powers the competitive differentiation.
If this resonates, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your CV or contact Simon to discuss.
Note: Full flexibility in location—remote-first with hybrid London offices. No commitments: acceptability tied to alignment.
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