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# Vice President of Engineering

- **Company:** Accredible
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Code Review, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Uptime, Scrum Methodology, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Web Applications, Software Organization, System Availability, Large Language Models, Technical Debt, Workday
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=263506891aae743a

## About the Role

Leadership & Engineering Experience
Significant experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
Proven ability to build high-performing engineering cultures through coaching, feedback, and accountability.
Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering leaders and individual contributors.
Strong engineering management experience with Agile software development practices.
Delivery & Operational Excellence
Demonstrated success improving engineering delivery, predictability, and team performance.
Experience building engineering processes that increase speed without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Strong understanding of sprint planning, code review, CI/CD, engineering metrics, and software delivery lifecycle.
Experience balancing feature delivery with technical debt, reliability, and platform health.
Technical Leadership
Broad technical experience with the ability to make sound engineering decisions alongside technical experts.
Comfortable discussing software architecture and engineering strategy.
Experience documenting technical decisions and ensuring alignment across engineering teams.
Understanding of modern software development practices, including AI and LLM-assisted development.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Strong partnership with Product to balance business priorities with engineering realities.
Comfortable communicating technical concepts to executives, customers, and non-technical stakeholders.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise what matters most.
Cultural Competencies
Results Oriented: Focus on meaningful outcomes and measurable progress.
Proactive: Remove blockers and drive work forward with intention.
Dependable: Follow through on commitments and create accountability.

## Description

We're looking for a Vice President of Engineering to lead our Engineering organisation day-to-day. Reporting directly to our CTO, you'll own the people, processes, and delivery that keep our engineering organisation running at its best, enabling the CTO to focus on long-term technical strategy.

If you're passionate about building exceptional engineering teams, creating an environment where great software ships consistently, and scaling engineering organisations through strong leadership rather than bureaucracy, we'd love to hear from you.

Who You Are

You're an experienced engineering leader who knows how to build high-performing distributed teams. You understand that great engineering organisations are built through trust, clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement.

You're equally comfortable discussing architecture with senior engineers, coaching engineering managers, reviewing delivery metrics, or partnering with Product and Executive Leadership on strategic priorities.

Most importantly, you're a compassionate leader who listens first, communicates clearly, embraces feedback, and creates an environment where engineers can do the best work of their careers.

What You'll Be Doing
Building and leading a high-performing, generative engineering culture.
Hiring exceptional engineers and engineering leaders while coaching existing team members to grow.
Managing engineering performance and making difficult people decisions when necessary.
Owning engineering delivery, ensuring the team reliably ships what it commits to.
Driving sprint execution, engineering velocity, predictability, and continuous improvement.
Designing and refining engineering processes including sprint planning, code review, CI/CD, and Jira workflows.
Partnering with Product and company leadership to make effective roadmap and technical prioritisation decisions.
Championing engineering quality, technical excellence, and platform reliability.
Working alongside the CTO to evolve Accredible's long-term technical architecture and engineering strategy.
Monitoring and communicating engineering health, including delivery metrics, uptime, defects, and operational performance.
Supporting customer conversations involving technical architecture when needed.
How We Work

At Accredible, Engineering exists to build products that customers love while continuously improving how we work.

You'll lead a fully distributed engineering organisation spanning multiple countries and time zones, creating an environment where autonomy, ownership, and accountability thrive. You'll be responsible for ensuring engineering processes remove friction rather than create it, helping teams deliver quickly without sacrificing quality.

You'll work closely with our CTO, CEO, Product leadership, and Executive Team to ensure engineering execution supports company priorities while maintaining a healthy balance between delivery, technical investment, and long-term platform stability.

This role is focused on engineering leadership-you won't own product strategy, security & compliance, or internal IT, as those areas have dedicated ownership.

This role is remote and UK-based (or close to GMT) to align with the engineering organisation, with occasional travel required to meet the Senior Leadership Team, typically less than twice per year., Builder: Constantly improve teams, processes, and systems.
Great Communicator: Create clarity through transparent, concise communication.
What Success Looks Like
Engineering Delivery
Multiple deployments ship every workday.
Cycle times continue to decrease while maintaining quality.
Production incidents are resolved quickly and effectively.
More than 80% of committed story points (or sprint goals) are consistently delivered.
Platform Reliability
Uptime remains at 99.99% across services, APIs, and web applications.
API response times remain under 150ms.
Credential load times remain under 5 seconds.
Engineering quality continues to improve through effective technical leadership.
Modern Engineering Practices
The engineering team successfully evolves its SDLC to make effective use of modern AI and LLM-assisted development tools.
Clear engineering standards exist around how AI-generated code is reviewed and maintained.
Engineering processes continue to improve without adding unnecessary overhead.
People & Leadership
Engineers report feeling supported, recognised, and empowered.
Engineering leaders have the autonomy and guidance needed to make decisions confidently.
Strong coaching, mentoring, and career development become part of everyday engineering culture.
Engineering Visibility
Leadership and the Board receive clear, meaningful reporting on engineering health, delivery, quality, and operational performance.
Engineering is viewed across the business as a predictable, trusted delivery organisation.
Why You'll Love It Here
Competitive Salary
35 Days Annual Vacation
Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance
Equity Options
Life Insurance & Employee Assistance Programs
Remote Work Flexibility
Two hours per week (paid) dedicated to learning, plus a budget for courses, books, and conferences
A commitment to supporting your personal and professional growth
Many additional perks!
Remote-First


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