Pair People have partnered with a scaling business who are looking for a talented Head of Engineering to lead a high-performing team and drive the evolution of a modern engineering function. The role offers the chance to oversee a critical technology migration from PHP to Go, while embedding AI tools into the development lifecycle and incorporating data-driven decisioning across products and platforms.

What you’ll be doing:

Defining and communicating the engineering & AI vision aligned with business goals.

Ability to be hands on with coding initially, as the team grows this element will reduce.

Guiding the transition from a PHP-based platform to a modern, Go-powered stack.

Driving delivery across multiple initiatives, including AI integrations.

Leading and mentoring a team of engineers and establishing engineering best practices, modern DevOps, and CI/CD.

Ensuring scalable, secure, and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.

Your Experience:

Proven leadership experience as Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager within a SaaS platform.

Strong technical background in PHP and Go, with experience leading platform migrations.

Hands-on experience with integrating AI tooling to the development lifecycle.

Skilled in Agile/Scrum and modern software delivery practices.

Strong communicator who can bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What’s in it for you:

· Very flexible environment – family friendly.

· Above market salary + bonuses.

· Work on - GO, PHP, React, AWS

· Work in a profitable business that is well funded.

· shape the future architecture of a growing platform.

· Autonomy to set technical direction while overseeing a major technology transformation.