Head of Engineering

London based, Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)

About us:

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace – our award-winning, online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal. Founded in 2017, our technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of more than 400 people across our London and Brighton offices.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

About the role

Our engineering team is growing! and we’re looking for a Head of Engineering to help us building new and innovative products. Our Head of Engineering will partner with our product and engineering leadership team to lead and mentor a team of Engineering Managers and engineers, inspiring them to do their best work. This role will suit someone who wants to build a world class engineering organisation, thrives in simplifying ambiguous situations and is passionate about making a positive impact.

What you'll do

• Help to create a safe environment which allows teams to be their authentic selves.
• Innovate. This is core to Motorways Engineering culture.
• Collaborate to design and implement enterprise-wide software solutions.
• Influence, drive and champion the strategic technical direction of the platform across the company.
• Take ambiguous information and simplify it.

Key Responsibilities

We're all in this together - Whilst every member of the Product and Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the Security, Stability & Scalability of our platform, you will also be responsible for:

• Delivering our product roadmap & planning for the future
• Developing and delivering engineering roadmaps & strategies that span departments and functions and that have a direct impact on business performance
• Coaching and developing new and existing managers and individual contributors
• Bringing together multiple teams within the department to build a shared culture and encourage cross-team collaboration
• Being an approachable, supportive and compassionate leader to reporting team members and colleagues
• Providing passionate direction by articulating and engaging others with the functional vision and priorities.
• Managing expectations of senior stakeholders and key external partners
• Heading up multidisciplinary projects, initiatives or teams
• Solving complex problems with broad impact either individually or through collaboration with stakeholders

About you:

• You are an engineering leader with extensive commercial experience delivering products across web, mobile and other through engineering excellence
• You have a track record of initiating, running and delivery of successful cross functional projects
• Proven track record of professional development of team members and people leaders
• Extensive experience of developing and delivering long term technical and/or product strategies
• Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles in engineering and product/design
• Ability to lead and engage others in driving a high performance culture
• Working in a cloud based organisation with high scale

• A competitive salary
• Annual learning budget - you can choose how you like to learn and find the best learning experiences to support your progression.
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted dental through BUPA
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• On-Hand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
• Hybrid working from home (approximately 2 days in the office a week)
• Pension scheme
• Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
• Enhanced parental leave
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories
• Regular social events
• Cycle to work scheme

Equal opportunities statement

Motorway is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Given the continued spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), all interviews will be conducted by phone or virtual connection to protect our candidates and employees.

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