Product Engineering Director
GetGround
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead and develop engineering leaders - Manage and mentor a team of Product Engineers, helping them grow their technical and leadership capabilities while driving impact across their teams.
- Code regularly - Spend meaningful time writing production code, reviewing pull requests, and contributing to architecture. You'll work across our React/TypeScript frontend and Golang backend, using AI tools as your co-pilot.
- Shape technical strategy - Define and evolve our engineering roadmap, architectural decisions, and technical standards in an AI-first development culture - informed by your hands-on work.
- Build and scale teams - Partner with our talent team to attract, hire, and onboard exceptional engineering talent. Create an environment where engineers thrive and deliver their best work.
- Drive delivery and impact - Own outcomes across multiple product streams, ensuring teams ship high-quality features fast whilst balancing technical excellence with commercial priorities.
- Champion engineering excellence - Establish and evolve engineering practices, standards, and culture that enable us to move quickly without compromising quality. Lead by example through your own code contributions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally - Work closely with Product, Design, and other functions to align on priorities, make strategic trade-offs, and drive business outcomes.
- Navigate ambiguity - Operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where ownership, experimentation, and adaptability are essential.
Requirements
- Hands-on technical leadership - You're a strong full-stack engineer (React/TypeScript, Golang or similar) who actively codes and wants to continue doing so. You earn credibility through your technical contributions, not just your title.
- Engineering management experience - Proven track record managing and developing engineering teams, including other engineering leaders. You've built high-performing cultures where engineers grow, collaborate, and deliver impact.
- Recent coding experience - You've been writing production code within the last 6-12 months and are excited to continue. You can jump into our codebase and make meaningful contributions quickly.
- Architectural expertise - Experience making significant architectural decisions, building consumer-facing products at scale, and balancing technical debt against delivery pressure.
- Product and commercial acumen - Deep understanding of how engineering enables product and business outcomes. You're excited about building world-class tech products that solve real user problems and drive commercial results.
- People development focus - Passionate about growing engineers and engineering leaders through coaching, mentoring, and clear feedback - while also demonstrating excellence through your own technical work.
- Change agent - Demonstrated ability to drive meaningful change in engineering organizations - whether improving delivery practices, elevating technical standards, or evolving team culture.
- AI-first mindset - Excited about AI-augmented development workflows (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, code generation) and building AI-native products. Comfortable with rapid experimentation and iteration.
- Strong communication - Able to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, facilitate difficult conversations, and build alignment across functions.
- Values alignment - Embody our operating principles: no BS, pursuit of excellence, feedback obsession, and healthy ego.
Benefits
- The opportunity to lead engineering at a fast-growing FinTech/PropTech company disrupting a massive market while staying hands-on with code
- Autonomy and ownership to shape our engineering function and culture
- A team that values excellence, feedback, and continuous improvement
- Competitive compensation and equity
- The chance to work on AI-native products that are reshaping property investment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ReactTypeScriptGolangfull-stack engineeringarchitectural expertiseproduction codetechnical leadershipengineering managementtechnical standardsAI-augmented development
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityownershipstrategic thinkingpeople developmentchange agentvalues alignment