Overview
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Location: London. Job Type: Full time.
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Purpose
This senior role will work in a growing standalone division within Just Group that operates at pace, with product mentality and building its tech stack entirely from scratch. It offers the creativity and energy of a scale-up, backed by the stability of a FTSE 250. We’re creating something the retirement industry has never seen — a new way to plan and manage financial wellbeing. Our mission is to empower people to navigate retirement with confidence through innovative, intuitive digital solutions.
As Head of Engineering, you’ll shape the technical direction and culture of a brand-new function, working closely with product, design, and marketing to deliver solutions that transform the retirement journey. You’ll balance hands-on coding and solution design with growing and leading a high-performing team — combining technical excellence with strategic thinking to drive customer outcomes, product velocity, and quality.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and implement a comprehensive consumer focused technology roadmap that supports the Consumer digital transformation goals and aligns to Just more broadly.
* Own the technical vision and design of our digital platform, balancing scalability, speed and maintainability.
* Lead end to end development of digital products – initially hands on, building API’s, front and back end components and scaling the team.
* Collaborate with product and design to shape and deliver compelling, user-centred experiences aligned with our retirement mission.
* Make smart build vs buy decisions including integrations with financial tools and platforms, analytics, content systems and personalisation engines.
* Drive high quality engineering practices including testing, dev ops, security, accessibility and performance. Working with wider group colleagues to ensure alignment with architectural principles and development practices.
* Bridge technical and commercial. Clearly communicating trade-offs, timelines and opportunities to non-technical stakeholders.
* Coach and support tech leads and other engineers, and encouraging them to communicate their vision more widely to the organisation.
Skills and Knowledge
* You will have direct experience in engineering through software development – including both web and app.
* You will understand modern approaches to software development and latest thinking on how best to build motivated, mixed team to deliver quality software.
* Ability to interact and influence throughout your functional area and into the wider group.
* Experience managing the risks and incidents created by software and systems in a regulated environment.
* Understanding of product-market fit and growth metrics.
Experience
* Experience working in both large and small technology organisations.
* Experience with production incident management and post mortems.
* Non-functional experience including security and performance testing.
* Automated end-to-end and API testing tools and techniques.
Company Benefits
* A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
* 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
* Private Medical Cover and Income Protection
* A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
* Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
* Headspace App access, 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and trained health resources
* Employee Funded Benefits via Online Benefits Portal
* Additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
Why Just?
At Just you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career, whilst making a difference to the lives of those around you. You’ll be part of a company with a strong and distinctive culture - ambitious, curious and collaborative – and every decision we make centres around being Just and delivering the best outcomes for our customers.
We’re committed to building a more sustainable business and progressing our Net Zero targets. We’re reducing reliance on fossil fuels in our offices and investing in green and social assets. We value diversity of thought and foster belonging through our DEIB initiatives and related targets.
Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Just.
Seniority level
* Executive
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
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