Head of Engineering
£85,000 – £100,000 per annum DOE + car allowance + bonus + benefits
Hybrid – working from home with occasional visits to various office
cinch and careers
cinch is shaking up the digital car-buying experience, are you up for the journey? Our mission is faff-free and ever-evolving, just like the employee experience we’ve created. Our people are the heart of our business and together we’re building a curious and like-minded community eager to take the used car market by storm. There are so many opportunities here for you to succeed, and as one of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses, a career at cinch means you can go anywhere. And when we do, we go together.
cinch and tech innovation
We’re more than just a tech company; we’re revolutionising the future of car buying. Our tribes operate in an autonomous environment where big decisions are made quickly, with every voice mattering. We’re leveraging cutting-edge technologies to disrupt an industry, and we need forward thinking leaders to guide us.
As a Head of Engineering, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping our technology strategy that drives our business forward.
The role
We’re looking for a visionary Head of Engineering to lead our Product and Partnerships tribe, providing strategic direction and operational efficiency. You’ll work closely with Technical Leads, Engineers, Product Owners, Technical Delivery Specialists and UX / Service Designers to align technical initiatives to our broader business goals. Your leadership will help shape our long-term strategy, ensuring that we have the right talent, processes and culture to succeed.
What you’ll be doing
- Guiding multiple squads within a tribe, ensuring that our tech stack and solutions are lean, agile, future ready and scalable.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and colleagues across cinch and our wider group, Constellation. This will include Product, Marketing, Retail Ops, Customer Experience and more, ensuring alignment and collaboration is key.
- Drive innovation by exploring and implementing emerging technologies, and contribute to the company's strategic direction.
- Join the charge in scaling our engineering capabilities, tackling challenges associated with growth and ensuring our teams are prepared for future demands.
- Mentor and support Technical Leads and Engineers, focusing on their professional growth and well-being. Implement robust career development plans, regular 1:1s and feedback loops.
- Establish and monitor success metrics, including delivery timelines, team efficiency, and the adoption of new technologies.
- Be a key player in shaping and maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that resonates across the entire organisation.
- Partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top engineering talent, ensuring our team continues to grow in both skill and diversity.
- Foster a collaborative environment that supports hybrid ways of working, both in the UK and Europe, ensuring we’re tapping into the best talent wherever it may be.
The person
- An empathetic servant leader with experience managing managers and leading large teams. You think big and are future thinking. You inspire others to try new things.
- You have deep technical knowledge and experience with modern tech stacks and development methodologies, coupled with a passion for exploring new technologies. You are a polyglot by design.
- You’re comfortable managing multiple streams of work, setting long-term goals and aligning them with the company’s strategic objectives.
- You genuinely care about the well-being and professional growth of your team members, fostering an environment where they can thrive.
- You excel at communicating complex ideas clearly, whether its to engineers, stakeholders or senior leadership.
- You believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and you’re committed to building a workplace where everyone can have psychological safety and be their authentic selves.
cinch and Rewards
cinch’s benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. That’s what a faff-free life is all about. We offer:
- Competitive salaries and bonuses
- A company pension scheme
- Private Healthcare (Bupa)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to trained mental health first aiders
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
And so much more!
cinch and you
In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver’s seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development. There’s no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry
Diversity and inclusion
cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.
And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.
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