Meshh
Head of Engineering (R&D)
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About Meshh
Meshh is a leading provider of spatial analytics for transient environments. Our platform transforms billions of wireless sensor observations into actionable insights for customers across more than 40 countries.
Our technology sits at the intersection of IoT, cloud data analytics, large-scale data engineering, and machine learning. We have built the next generation of our analytics platform, combining modern cloud infrastructure with advanced AI and data engineering to solve challenging real-world problems in visitor analytics.
The Role
Meshh is looking for a hands-on Head of Engineering to lead the next phase of product innovation and growth. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for leading Meshh's research and engineering function. You'll shape our long-term technology strategy while ensuring that innovative ideas become reliable, scalable products used by customers worldwide.
You'll oversee engineering across our cloud platform, machine learning, data engineering, and sensor analytics, working closely with Product, Data Science, and Commercial teams to translate research into commercially successful solutions.
We're looking for a commercially-savvy engineering leader who still enjoys solving difficult technical problems, reviewing architecture, mentoring engineers, and occasionally contributing code or prototypes where it adds value.
This role also carries responsibility for engineering planning, budgeting, team development, and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Define and execute Meshh's engineering and technology strategy.
- Lead the research, design, and development of new analytics capabilities and AI-driven products.
- Drive innovation in large-scale sensor data processing and new sensor integration for visitor analytics.
- Evaluate and introduce new and emerging technologies that create competitive advantage.
- Ensure research outcomes transition successfully into production systems.
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Engineering Leadership
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization covering software engineering, data analytics, ML, and data engineering.
- Build a high-performance engineering culture focused on technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor senior engineers and support career development across the team.
- Recruit and retain exceptional engineering talent.
Delivery & Operations
- Own engineering execution across multiple workstreams, balancing innovation with product delivery.
- Work closely with Product leadership to define engineering priorities, technical roadmaps, and delivery plans.
- Improve engineering processes, quality standards, security, observability, and operational resilience.
- Establish appropriate engineering KPIs and monitor delivery performance.
Financial & Resource Management
- Own the engineering budget, including staffing, infrastructure, software tooling, and third-party services.
- Manage cloud infrastructure costs and drive engineering efficiency.
- Support business planning by providing technical investment forecasts and resource planning.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and manage external engineering partners where appropriate.
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What We're Looking For
Essential
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Previous experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving technology company
- Strong cloud engineering experience (AWS preferred)
- Experience bringing ML-based products and solutions to production
- Understanding of hardware, particularly IoT sensors
- Experience building modern SaaS platforms.
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to remain hands-on.
- Excellent understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and commercial teams.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of wireless technologies (WiFi, BLE, RFID, cellular etc.)
- Background in sensor development or data processing, particularly cameras, LiDAR, RF etc.
- Platform engineering knowledge (ex. MLOps)
- Prior exposure to data analytics/data science
- Data lakes and modern analytics architectures
Why Join Meshh?
You'll join a small but established company which has carved a niche as one of the global leaders in spatial analytics for transient environments. You'll work on genuinely interesting technical and product challenges involving cloud computing, distributed systems, AI, sensor networks, and large-scale analytics, while having significant influence over the direction of both the technology and the team.
If you're looking for a leadership role where you can combine strategic thinking with hands-on engineering, we'd love to hear from you.
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