Head of Engineering

About GetHarley

GetHarley empowers people to look, feel and be their best selves — at every age.  We are the first platform to combine technology with the human instinct and experience of a Practitioner to deliver a deeply personalized and effective experience. Our company is transforming the skincare and healthy ageing experience as we know it.

Launched in May 2019, we are backed by top-tier Venture Capital firms, raising $52 million in funding to date. Currently, at ~95 employees and growing, we are an award-winning, fast-paced business, growing triple-digits year over year with no market competition. Today, we empower over 1000 practitioners to increase their skincare product sales and drive patient loyalty via the GetHarley platform and we plan to grow this significantly in the coming year. We are looking for ambitious, dynamic, kind people to help us continue to scale.

The opportunity 

This is an amazing opportunity for an exceptional commercial and pragmatic Engineering leader to join and lead our engineering team and: 

1. Build a world-class engineering function to power GetHarley
2. Prepare the team to scale and for global expansion
3. Deliver considerable business impact in a fast-paced environment

You will be responsible for managing and scaling the engineering team, driving technical excellence and best practices, and ensuring alignment between technology and business goals.

To be successful in this role you will need excellent:

• Technical Leadership: Define and execute the engineering strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.  Drive technical decisions and provide technical point of view and direction 
• Process & Execution: Implement excellent engineering processes and increase the velocity of delivery through use of the latest technologies and tools
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate vision into scalable solutions.
• Team Management & Growth: Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a strong engineering culture. 
• Scale the engineering team: Set up the team for successful scaling and for global expansion 

Experience

You will be a great fit if you:

• Have a proven track record in a technical leadership role, ideally within a scale-up or fast-paced organisation, displaying strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• You have a great track record of attracting engineering talent and building high-performing engineering teams 
• Have designed and implemented best practice engineering processes and can execute your vision for change.
•  Strong project management capabilities with a history of delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising AI to increase speed and improve business outcomes and clear on how to operate teams using AI and how to upskill teams on it. Understands the potential and limitations of AI on product development
• Hands-on experience with developing modern, scalable, fault-tolerant, high-availability microservices. Strong foundation in modern web technologies and backend frameworks, for example, Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, Event-Driven Design, React, Next.js and Typescript
• Good commercial acumen with the ability to translate technology strategies into tangible business outcomes. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align engineering goals with wider business objectives and stakeholders.
• Passion for innovation and staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Location

The Engineering team is remote, but we have a Marylebone, London HQ which is open anytime you want to pop in.

Working Hours

This role is full-time (40 hours per week)

What we can offer you

• 25 days of annual leave + birthday day off + bank holidays
• Laptop provided
• Regular team socials
• Discounted skincare products
• Private healthcare with Vitality for UK employees
• Quarterly all-company GetTogether's
• Dog-friendly office located in Marylebone
• Seasonal merch drops

GetHarley is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other b