Head of Engineering

Radiant, San Francisco

What you will do

What you'll do

As Head of Engineering, you will lead Radiant's engineering organisation and be accountable for its execution, technical quality, reliability, and scalability.

You'll lead software engineering, platform security engineering, and architecture: an organisation of 30-35 engineers today, growing to 150 to 200+ as Radiant expands internationally. You'll partner closely with Product, the Customer team, Infrastructure, SRE, Operations, the PMO, and the wider technology leadership team.

What you need

Your profile

Significant experience leading and scaling engineering organisations of 20+ engineers through multiple stages of growth.
Experience managing managers, with a strong track record of hiring and developing Engineering Managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.
Proven experience evolving a smaller engineering group into multiple teams with clear ownership, leadership, and consistent delivery.
Experience designing organisational structures, team boundaries, and operating models for increasing scale and complexity.
Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, engineering quality, throughput, and organisational effectiveness.
Strong technical background across modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, or infrastructure-heavy products.
Experience owning production systems where reliability, observability, scalability, and operational readiness are critical.
Comfortable working closely with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, Operations, and Commercial teams.
Experience operating across multiple teams, locations, or time zones.
Able to communicate technical risk, trade-offs, and opportunity clearly at executive level.
Experience with cloud or infrastructure platforms, scaled SaaS, AI/ML platforms, or infrastructure-heavy technology businesses is strongly preferred.

What you bring

Engineering leadership: You build strong teams, strong leaders, and clear accountability.
Execution: You create predictability and drive complex programmes through to completion.
Technical judgement: You can guide architecture and challenge senior engineers without becoming a bottleneck.
Systems thinking: You understand organisations, platforms, and operating models as interconnected systems.
Operational mindset: You expect engineering output to be reliable, supportable, and production-ready.
Organisational design: You know when structures, processes, or ownership models need to evolve.
Calm leadership: You remain decisive under pressure and make clear trade-offs when required.
Ownership: You take responsibility for engineering outcomes, organisational health, and long-term capability.

Qualities we look for

Set the standard: Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up
Inspire the change: There's no blueprint for the future. You'll embrace challenges and change
You're real and you're true to yourself: We cherish and celebrate diversity so you'll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you're talking to, you treat everyone the same.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?

What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive.

Here are just some of the great things you can expect from us

25 days of annual leave
A culture that emphasises results over hierarchy, process & ego: we place great emphasis on the quality, ingenuity and creativity of work.
Open communication, regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and a growth mindset makes us better together.
Learning Time: we all have dedicated learning time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of your day-to-day job.
Health & Wellbeing: we want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Bupa.
Cycle to Work Scheme: we're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work.
Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
Participation in the company shares program
Enhanced parental pay & leave

Our process: a conversation with our Talent team, then interviews with our CTO and leadership team.

Head of Engineering

What you will do

What you'll do

Head of Engineering

What you will do

What you'll do

Key responsibilities

What you need

Your profile

What you bring

Qualities we look for

Here are just some of the great things you can expect from us

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About Radiant

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