Head of Engineering

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace — our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal.

Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car, generating thousands of monthly car sales and helping us to grow to a team of over 300 across 4 locations.

Motorway is now valued at over $1 billion and is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

About the role

Our engineering team is growing! and we’re looking for a Head of Engineering to help us building new and innovative products. As our Head of engineering, you will partner with our product and engineering leadership team to lead and mentor a team of Engineering Managers and engineers, inspiring them to do their best work.

If you want to build a world-class engineering organisation, thrive in simplifying ambiguous situations and are passionate about making a positive impact, then we're looking for you!

What you'll do

• Help to create a safe environment which allows teams to be their authentic selves.
• Innovate. This is core to Motorways Engineering culture.
• Collaborate to design and implement enterprise-wide software solutions.
• Influence, drive and champion the strategic technical direction of the platform across the company.
• Take ambiguous information and simplify it.

Key Responsibilities

We're all in this together - Whilst every member of the Product and Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the Security, Stability & Scalability of our platform, you will also be responsible for:

• Delivering our product roadmap & planning for the future
• Developing and delivering engineering roadmaps & strategies that span departments and functions and that have a direct impact on business performance
• Coaching and developing new and existing managers and individual contributors
• Bringing together multiple teams within the department to build a shared culture and encourage cross-team collaboration
• Being an approachable, supportive and compassionate leader to reporting team members and colleagues
• Providing passionate direction by articulating and engaging others with the functional vision and priorities.
• Managing expectations of senior stakeholders and key external partners
• Heading up multidisciplinary projects, initiatives or teams
• Solving complex problems with broad impact either individually or through collaboration with stakeholders

Requirements

If you don't feel you match all the “requirements” section, it's okay! We still want to hear from you. You still could be a great fit for our team!

• Extensive commercial experience delivering products across web, mobile and other through engineering excellence.
• Track record of initiating, running and delivery of successful cross functional projects.
• Proven track record of professional development of team members and people leaders.
• You have experience of developing and delivering long term technical and/or product strategies.
• Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles in engineering and product/design.
• Ability to lead and engage others in driving a high performance culture.
• Working in a cloud based organisation with high scale.

Benefits

We believe rewards should be more than a pay cheque. Our benefits package is designed to help you do your best work and support your career development.

• Stock options - we succeed and fail together as a team, so we want you to be included in our success
• Annual learning budget - you can choose how you like to learn and find the best learning experiences to support your progression.
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted dental through BUPA
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• On-Hand volunteering membership + 1 volunteering day per year
• Hybrid working from home (approximately 1-2 days in the office a week)
• Pension scheme
• Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Regular social events

Equal opportunities statement

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where people can maximise their full potential. We believe our workforce should reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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