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Head of Engineering at AppFox
Your Mission
You’ll own engineering at AppFox:
- The team, including 13 engineers (including 2 leads + lead engineers).
- The technical direction, quality bar, and pace of delivery.
- Reporting to the Head of Product, you’ll be the senior technical voice in the business with real autonomy.
- Defined authority across technical, financial, and quality aspects of engineering.
- Trust to make high-level calls within the company’s goals and objectives.
Key Focus Areas
Engineering Leadership & Technical Direction
- Own the technical vision of AppFox’s products and the new application (architecture, standards, and tooling) while they evolve with the business and technological landscape.
- Bring strategic breadth—challenge conventions, introduce modern approaches (scalable infrastructure, managed services), and ensure decisions are based on merit, not habit.
- Hold quality high—protect and enhance DORA high-performing practices (CI/CD, frequent small releases, strong review/testing disciplines) without disrupting what works.
- Own delivery bent: critical planning, prioritisation, and predictable shipping—partnered closely with Product.
- Accountable for security, privacy, and quality across the entire engineering team.
People & Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop 13 engineers, including two team leads.
- Promote emerging leaders, fostering their growth instead of micromanaging outcomes.
- Own people management results: performance, development, hiring, and difficult conversations.
- Cultivate a curious, forward-focused engineering culture, including engaging with industry trends, meetups, and external ideas.
Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Head of Product—bring engineering perspective early, ensuring informed, shared decisions.
- Strategy & resourcing shape: guide strategic initiatives, assess technical feasibility, and advise on cost vs. commercial payback.
- Maintain strong senior-level relationships across the business and with key platforms (Atlassian, monday.com).
Leveraging AI: Revolutionising How We Build
With AI transforming the future, this role pivots in two key areas:
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1. AI In How We Build As AI reshapes engineering, top performers embrace it as a force multiplier. Sets expectations:
- Daily routine integration—AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor) and agentic tooling used effectively.
- AI-assisted review, testing, and automation to reduce repetitive work.
- Small agentic workflows taking over toil. At a broader level, explore AI-driven bottleneck resolution and project management optimisation.
2. AI In What We Build Our products help teams govern and optimise content/workflows across Confluence, Jira, Miro, monday.com. AI is transforming their capabilities. Responsibilities:
- Identify where AI adds genuine value across the product portfolio and where it doesn’t—prioritize features that:
- Meet high evaluation (reliability/lifespan), and commercial relevance.
- Address cost, latency, and safety rigorously (focusing beyond flashy demos).
- Consider external AI agent interactions—how our products should interact with or support them.
- Proven hands-on (or) leading teams building AI/ML-powered production features is critical!
No preconceived playbook—the role is here to break new ground.
Your Profile & Fit
You Lead, Develop, & Inspire
| Why You? ✔ Your energy comes from craftsmanship and helping others grow. ✔ Clarifying ambiguity empowers teams to reach unexpected results. ✔ Expand mindsets, asking "Is this the only way?". ✔ Leadership energises you—you thrive on people complexity, difficult choices, and navigating grey zones. Never tolerate stagnation; find inspiration in adversity. ✔ Thought partnership drives decisions—take timelines, bring questions and trade-offs instead of blind execution. ✔ Emotional maturity builds trust quickly, listens before shifting direction, and disagrees respectfully. Confident enough to advocate, and move on. |
Direct experience proves impact and readiness
Essential
- Degree: Computer Science or strongly numerate discipline—2:1 or higher.
- Standout leadership track record: Building/growing teams (including people management through change).
- Hands-on technical breadth across multiple stacks, companies, and problem types—to question all paid paths, not default to familiarity.
- Proven AI integration in engineering workflows:
- Real-world experience using AI tooling to accelerate output—not just a demos.
- Point of view on current/developing discipline trajectory (e.g., Claude Code, agentic tooling).
- Expertise building/executing AI features: gained experience with evaluations for production that run on cost, latency, safety.
- Full-stack modernization & cloud-native expertise:
- Strong credibility to find new directions, backed by depth in commodity-to-cloud (e.g., AWS).
- Understands scaling systems, governance, trade-offs.
- Soft power presence: Command tech/production credibility and coherence over senior peers.
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Nice to Have
- Leverage Atlassian/monday.com ecosystems—as software buyers, partners, or vendors.
- Marketplace shipping experience: Product visibility via Atlassian Marketplace/monday.com App releases.
- Deep AI/agentic tooling experience:
- Holistically applies Cursor/MCP-clone workflows, AI agentic pipelines beyond generics.
- Large-scale AI production-grade experience:
- Avoided Vulcanisation during priority, cost, latency, safety balancing.
Why Join Us?
Automation Consultants—with 20 years of Atlassian expertise—is an Atlassian Platinum Partner and App of the Year innovation leader.
Accreditation & Impact
- SOC 2, ISO 27001 certified.
- Innovation powerhouse: AppFox builds tools to drive Atlassian and monday.com ecosystems, with validation through startups to global enterprises.
Rewards
- £110,000–£120,000 p/a (structured to align with experience).
- Perks & support:
- 33 days annual leave.
- Hybrid flexibility & FHD benefits.
- Private healthcare, optimal dental insurance, maternity/paternity leave.
- Culture of on-site motivation—gym, yoga, yoga, increments + personal training budget.
- Tailored individual growth plan blended with escalated training.
- Tax incentives: electric/hybrid benefits, cycle-to-work scheme.
- Strong social practice—team/group retreats.
Culture & Community
Recognition as UK’s Best Workplace (with exceptional morale figures)—your impact here earns A Degree of Real Results among engaged customers.
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