Job Specifications
Director of Engineering, UK (London)
We are hiring on behalf of our client, an early-stage risk and intelligence technology company, for a Director of Engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for driving the next stage of technical and organisational growth, scaling the platform, and building a high-performing engineering team.
About the Role
You will take full ownership of the platform architecture, data pipelines, integrations, and multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure. This is a highly visible, strategic role where you will work closely with the founder and early customers, ensuring the platform is scalable, secure, reliable, and enterprise-ready.
Key Responsibilities
Own the full platform architecture, including ingestion, scoring, data stores, APIs, and dashboards.
Lead AI/ML-powered enrichment and scoring systems.
Build and scale microservices, event-driven pipelines, and automated intelligence workflows.
Harden cloud infrastructure and implement security, compliance, and CI/CD best practices.
Convert manual intelligence processes into automated, repeatable workflows.
Build, mentor, and develop a small but highly capable engineering team.
Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Ideal Experience
10+ years in software engineering, including senior or director-level leadership experience.
Strong experience with cloud platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and data engineering.
Solid security and compliance knowledge; experience with SOC2, ISO27001, CE+, or similar standards is a plus.
Experience building early-stage or founding engineering teams.
Comfortable balancing hands-on engineering with strategic leadership.
Experience in risk analytics, intelligence, or security data is advantageous.
Why Join
Take direct ownership of the engineering strategy and platform direction.
Build a mission-critical platform from the ground up.
Shape and scale a high-performing engineering team.
Work on impactful problems that reduce organisational risk at scale.
Competitive compensation and equity package.
SALARY: £130-150,000
If you are successful within the application process, someone from our team will reach out to you.
About the Company
CyberForce Global are at the forefront of start-up technology recruitment.
With four key focus areas, CyberForce, as a trusted business partner supporting the hiring needs across hundreds of tech start-ups within the following key tech areas:
CYBER & INFORMATION SECURITY:
(Threat Detection/Cloud Security/Network Security/IIoT/IoT/Endpoint Security/Security Operations/Data Security/Mobile & Applications/Security Posture Management)
SOFTWARE:
(DevOps/Big Data/Business Intelligence/Development & Engineering/Mobile Softwar...
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