Head of Applications | Global Leadership Role | High-Growth Cybersecurity Scale-Up | UK (Hybrid/Remote)
This is an unmissable opportunity to join one of the fastest-scaling cybersecurity innovators on the market. Recognised by Gartner, backed by top-tier VC investors, and trusted by Fortune 500s and critical infrastructure providers, this scale-up is building the future of continuous offensive security.
Theyre now seeking an ambitious Head of Applications to lead their global Application Technology team across the UK, Singapore, and the US. This is a high-impact leadership role where youll shape engineering culture, drive technical excellence, and scale customer-facing SaaS systems used by some of the largest enterprises in the world.
What youll be doing: Leading and growing a global application engineering team, spanning backend and frontend systems
Building critical SaaS capabilities for enterprise clients: account lifecycle, access control, notifications, logging, multi-tenancy, and more
Partnering with local leads to ensure global alignment and consistent delivery standards
Driving a high-performance engineering culture through structured reviews, coaching, and career development pathways
Partnering with Product Design to deliver intuitive, robust enterprise workflows
Tackling complex technical challenges across large-scale data pipelines, secure access, event-driven systems, and multi-tenant architectures
Embedding Agile, DevOps, and best practices into the engineering organisation
What theyre looking for: 10+ years of experience building and managing distributed engineering teams across multiple regions
Proven track record as a global leader, managing local leads and scaling high-performing teams
Experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS applications in a high-growth B2B environment
Strong technical depth across:
Backend: Node.js, Typescript
Frontend: React.js, Typescript
Database: MySQL
Cloud/Infra: AWS, ECS, K8s, Airflow, Kafka, Serverless
Solid understanding of SaaS fundamentals: onboarding, authentication, SSO, granular authorisation, multi-tenancy
Familiarity with workflow orchestration, asynchronous tasks, and event-driven architecture
Ideally, exposure to cybersecurity platforms or large-scale security data systems
Why join? ? Competitive compensation & benefits
? Key leadership role in a high-growth cybersecurity scale-up
? Opportunity to shape global engineering strategy and culture
? Work with cutting-edge technology solving complex, industry-wide challenges
? Endless career progression growth and internal promotion are core to their DNA
This is a rare chance to lead a global engineering function at a company reshaping how the worlds biggest organisations stay ahead of attackers. If youre a proven applications leader with SaaS and security experience this ones for you.
Apply now your next big challenge starts here.
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