Director of Software Development An exciting new opportunity with a high-growth B2B SaaS business scaling a complex, customer-facing platform used at significant volume. With continued investment in engineering, tooling, and leadership, they're looking for a Director of Software Development to help evolve and scale their engineering organisation. This role suits someone who came up through software engineering, understands modern development at depth, and now leads through strong principles, clear thinking, and trust rather than command-and-control. The Role You'll own the end-to-end software development operation, leading a small group of Software Development Managers who manage 40-50 engineers across development, DevOps, and QA. Engineering leadership is UK-based, alongside the build-out of a new technology hub in South Africa, giving you the opportunity to shape a distributed, high-performing engineering organisation. This isn't a role for someone stepping away from engineering, it's for someone who still cares deeply about how software is built, even at senior leadership level. What You'll Be Responsible For Owning delivery, quality, and scalability across the development function. Embedding modern DevOps practices as part of development - CI/CD, automation, small batch delivery, and fast feedback. Driving continuous improvement using metrics and meaningful engineering KPIs. Improving developer prod...