Vice President of Software Engineering

Our client is a high-growth, international subscription and commerce business entering an important new phase of expansion. With a well-established core platform and ambitious plans across new markets, operational capability, and data-led customer experiences, this is an opportunity to take ownership of how engineering delivery evolves at scale. You will join an established, well-backed organisation that values thoughtful decision-making, practical delivery, and modern ways of building software.

The Vice President of Engineering will lead engineering delivery across roadmap execution, operational health, and cross-functional coordination. This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who can turn commercial priorities into clear, achievable engineering plans while helping shape the future direction of a complex platform.

Role Highlights

The Vice President of Engineering will:

Own delivery across engineering roadmaps, dependencies, milestones, and release planning

Translate product and commercial priorities into clear, realistic engineering plans

Build meaningful delivery, quality, incident, and operational health metrics

Coordinate the evaluation and sequencing of future platform evolution

Act as a senior deputy to the CTO, with a defined leadership progression path, This Vice President of Engineering role is not a conventional people-management or principal engineering position. You will be the person who creates clarity between strategy and execution: spotting delivery friction early, making trade-offs visible, and ensuring the engineering function can deliver sustainably as the business grows. You will also help the organisation build AI-native engineering practices that are useful, well-governed, and grounded in real delivery outcomes.

Proven engineering leadership experience within a scaling digital, subscription, or commerce business

Strong delivery management skills across distributed engineering teams and complex priorities

A practical understanding of modern software architecture, platforms, and operational resilience

Hands-on experience adopting AI-assisted and agentic development practices

The judgement to work through ambiguity, challenge constructively, and maintain delivery momentum