Head of Engineering

Compensation

£90,000 - £100,000 Base + Equity + Benefits

TL;DR

• Head of role with potential for progression to CTO
• Fast growing home energy management start-up, based in Liverpool
• Remote, flexible work arrangements
• Responsible for shaping, leading, and driving the technology team
• Ownership of the technology stack and direct collaborating with Product
• Must have AWS, Kafka, Python, Typescript, React
• Experience in Energy and working with data and AI teams, a bonus

Who are we?

Heatio wants to connect to millions of residential homes and drive down the cost of bills and emissions at scale.

Heatio is a young, fast-growing data and AI platform startup looking to disrupt the energy and data industries through real time household modelling and developing best in class agile software culture. Based in Liverpool, our mix of hardware expertise, knowledge of the market, and our expanding virtual power plant (VPP) technology has enabled us to gain rapid traction from large energy providers to cutting-edge home energy technology manufacturers.

To understand more about who we are and what we do, visit our website here:

https://heatio.com

To get a better understanding of how we think and some of the organisations we work with, check out our podcast here:https://open.spotify.com/show/6x4X3u0PjnTM2I7tDZpvGT

Role purpose

First of all - we're adaptable and interested in a mix of people to make the best team. We're currently looking for someone at the Director, VP, Head of, or Principal level in one of the following roles (or a mix of): Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or Cloud Architecture.

We are looking for someone to own the code and the platform from a technical perspective. To step change our culture, processes and to own engineering as a function long term. We are looking for a potential CTO in waiting.

We are looking to build a best in class engineering and data business, and as such we are looking for an experienced lead to step change our business and technical development.

Success in this role will be down to several factors. One is cultural fit and your ability to drive change and influence in the organisation. Technical success will be defined by building a platform that looks to monitor homes and their devices in real time and make intelligent, automated, decisions leveraging best-in-class engineer practices to scale AI and machine learning models across a growing diversity of uses cases.

Day-to-day work will involve project delivery and collaborating with stakeholders across our internal and customer teams. You will achieve leverage through excellent code, strong practices, and enabling your team to deliver more, at pace, in an agile environment. Technical work will include building, testing, deploying, maintaining, packaging, and explaining software to support our machine learning, data platform, and advanced analytics solutions for our customers - built with modern tools across the open source and cloud platform landscape.

You'll spend time shaping requirements and working with the Product team to turn the roadmap into production-grade solutions.

You will act as a champion and subject-matter expert for software engineering, data, and technology across the business, helping to cross-skill and upskill others.

Accountabilities

• Work with developers, managers, and business stakeholders to understand and define components of the technology landscape and how it relates to the product strategy
• Build a world-class technology team to deliver the product roadmap and scale Heatio's energy data platform
• Leverage open source and cloud platform technologies to deliver robust, secure, scalable solutions
• Own the code base and technology stack, optimising, driving, and reporting on key performance metrics
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain data platform, analytics, AI, and machine learning tools for our customers
• Own and drive performance metrics across the technology stack and the delivery teams
• Own the shaping and development of a technology function capable of delivering infrastructure, software, data platform, machine learning and AI solutions using the latest best practices
• Produce high-quality communications, documentation, and presentations of solutions for colleagues and customers
• Subject-matter expert and evangelist for technology and engineering
• Helping to grow both our internal knowledge and skill sets as we scale.

Technical skills

We understand that this list is extensive – please apply if you fit some or only part of it we're flexible and are mostly looking for bright people who can adapt as the role grows. We want to see the broadest range of possible candidates from a diverse mix of backgrounds. Technical skills are only part of the equation.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with the following core skills in a previous role:

• Kafka
• Python
• SQL
• Terraform
• Typescript
• React
• AWS

Additional experience with the following would be beneficial but not essential:

• Machine learning
• Digital twins
• Energy sector experience
• Hardware integration

Other desirable skills and experience

• Scale up experience is essential
• A proven track record of building best in class engineering teams and culture.
• Experience in the energy sector, especially home energy management systems, highly beneficial
• Ability to act as a driving force in a growing technology start-up
• Strong stakeholder management
• Analysis/requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation of technology solutions
• Experience in collaborating in and leading multidisciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, data scientists etc.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining a machine learning systems and data pipelines in a production cloud environment would be beneficial
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal – able to translate complex technical subject matter into easily understood presentations and written documentation for mixed technical audiences.

What’s in it for you?

We are a small and flat organisation where we believe in radical candour, speed of decision-making, and not being a d\*ck. Those are our core values. We believe every hire is an opportunity to change the business, and that is our intention.

You’ll be one of the earliest hires for our organisation and, therefore, will have a huge impact on the culture and how it is shaped. You’ll have the chance to influence decisions in a fast-paced start-up and grow with the organisation.

You'll have direct access to our existing team of experienced leaders and their wider network.

Benefits

• Equity
• Pension
• Flexible working

IMPORTANT!!

Heatio is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive employee environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, and sexual orientation.