Senior Director Engineering

Demo Company builds products that people genuinely want to use, serving customers who expect both quality and reliability in everything we ship. We are a team that takes craftsmanship seriously, operates with curiosity, and holds transparency as a non-negotiable standard in how we work together. Our mission is straightforward: build great products with great people, and mean every word of it.

This Senior Director of Engineering role exists because Demo Company is ready to invest seriously in the leadership layer that will determine how well our engineering organisation scales over the next several years. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for the health, output, and technical direction of a team of senior engineers, and within 12 months you will have a measurably stronger organisation: clearer technical standards, more consistent execution, and a team that is growing in both capability and confidence. The person in this seat gives the business the engineering leadership it needs to ship great products reliably and build the foundation for what comes next.

- Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, setting clear expectations, creating the conditions for high-quality work, and ensuring every person on the team has a path to grow. - Own the technical direction for your engineering organisation, making deliberate decisions about architecture, tooling, and standards that will hold up as the team and product scale. - Drive engineering execution across the organisation, maintaining visibility into delivery health and removing the blockers that slow teams down before they become serious problems. - Define and continuously improve the engineering processes, rituals, and norms that allow a growing team to stay aligned, move with confidence, and maintain quality under pressure. - Partner with product, design, and other business functions to translate strategic priorities into engineering plans that are realistic, well-scoped, and clearly communicated. - Build the organisational structure and hiring strategy needed to scale the engineering team sustainably, including contributing directly to senior and leadership-level hiring decisions. - Represent engineering at the leadership level, contributing to company-wide planning and ensuring the CTO and broader leadership team have an accurate picture of engineering capacity, risk, and progress. - Establish a culture of technical craftsmanship and accountability, where code quality, system reliability, and thoughtful design are treated as shared responsibilities rather than individual preferences.

- Proven experience managing and developing senior engineers, including a track record of raising the performance and technical capability of the people you lead. - Demonstrated ability to set and execute technical direction at an organisational level, including making architecture and tooling decisions that have had lasting impact on a product or platform. - A strong record of scaling an engineering organisation through a period of meaningful growth, whether in headcount, product complexity, or both. - Experience operating as a senior engineering leader with direct accountability for delivery outcomes, team health, and engineering quality across multiple teams or workstreams. - Comfort working in close partnership with product, design, and commercial functions, with a clear and consistent approach to aligning engineering priorities with business goals. - Experience reporting to or working directly alongside a CTO or equivalent executive, with the communication skills and strategic perspective that level of visibility requires.

- Experience building or significantly restructuring an engineering hiring process, including defining levelling frameworks, interview standards, or onboarding programmes that improved the quality of new hires. - Hands-on background as a software engineer earlier in your career, giving you the technical credibility to engage meaningfully in architecture discussions and code review conversations. - Exposure to engineering in a product-led company where the engineering and product organisations are tightly integrated and share accountability for outcomes. - Familiarity with engineering metrics and observability practices, including using data on deployment frequency, incident rates, or cycle time to inform decisions about team health and process improvement.

- Competitive compensation — we will share the range early in the process. - A remote-first working model that gives you genuine flexibility over where and how you do your best work. - Comprehensive health insurance coverage from your first day in the role. - 25 days of paid time off per year, in addition to public holidays. - A dedicated learning budget to invest in the leadership development, technical depth, and industry knowledge that matters most to you. - A leadership team that operates with genuine transparency, which means you will always understand where the business stands and how your work connects to the decisions being made at the top.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.