Head of Engineering Tech Shoreditch, London, UK

We're looking for an incredible Head of Engineering who can lead our engineering team as they design and build our world-class product for modern charities.

At Beacon we're a growing technology startup building the best nonprofit-focused CRM in the world. We passionately believe in the power of technology to make a difference.

Chris and David, both software engineers, founded Beacon in 2017 to build a new kind of charity CRM using the latest technology and design principles.

Now hundreds of innovative charities around the world trust Beacon to run their core technology infrastructure. You can see a quick demo of our product, here.

We have doing good at the core of our mission, but we're also profitable, privately owned, and our goals are for long-term sustainable growth.

At Beacon we take building exceptional software very seriously. In a recent survey by Fundraising magazine, we were rated 4.9/5 on functionality and 5/5 on ease of use.

We're a team of 10 full-stack in-house engineers who are entirely responsible for the development and maintenance of the Beacon product.

Responsibilities

Your focus will be on leading the technical team responsible for the whole Beacon product, from infrastructure to interface. You'll work directly with the founders and our existing engineering team to lead the design, development, and maintenance of a sophisticated and modern web application.

You will:

• Work with the Founders and Beacon's senior engineers to solve our hardest technical problems and guide the implementation of the solutions you come up with.
• Ensure that Beacon is built in a modern, sensible, maintainable, and scalable way.
• Develop a profound understanding of the Beacon product and contribute to product strategy.
• Inspire and empower our team of in-house engineers and manage the reorganisation of the engineering team as we scale.
• Take ownership of how Beacon is tested and ensure that the team adheres to modern testing methodologies.
• Contribute to prioritisation of our day-to-day backlog of features, chores, and bugs.
• Be comfortable stepping up and taking charge of the situation when challenges arise.
• Investigate new technologies regularly and drive the implementation of improvements to the Beacon product.
• Take ultimate responsibility for the stability and uptime of Beacon and manage the systems and processes that ensure this stability.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in an engineering leadership role at a B2B SaaS company, ideally as Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering, or CTO.
• Extensive expert-level experience with core technologies (Postgres, React, Node, AWS Lambda, and BigQuery).
• Superb communication skills to effectively communicate across all of Beacon's internal teams and with external parties.
• Opportunity to build a career while having a genuinely positive impact on the world.
• 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays.
• 6 week fully paid sabbatical every 5 years.
• £60 bonus for every day of holiday taken.
• Banded salary system for equal pay for the same job.
• Guaranteed pay rise to adjust for inflation every 12 months.
• Climate positive employment.
• Proper pension with 150% match on contributions (up to 10%).
• Private health insurance with routine dental & optical cover.
• Modern parental leave policy (12 weeks at full pay).
• Cycle to work scheme.

Working together

As a team, we prefer to be together in our office (4-6 New Inn Broadway, London, EC2A 3PR) and we'd want you to join us - so this is not a remote role. We offer flexible working hours and while your usual place of work will be in the office, you can work from home when needed.

If you don't live in London but would be happy to relocate, we can pay up to £4,000 (tax-free) to help with your relocation costs.

Diversity Commitment

We believe that in building diversity we build strength. We encourage everyone with the required skills to apply and actively pursue building a more diverse team.

We have a banded salary system to ensure equal pay for the same role and our parental leave policy provides for 12 weeks of full pay for any parent.

We are actively working to demonstrate our commitment to our values by completing Bloody Good Period 's 'Bloody Good Employer' certification and working towards becoming a certified BCorp.