Picnic

Head of Engineering

Picnic

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloud

About the role

  • Own delivery of the engineering roadmap, taking complex decisioning and optimisation capabilities from prototype through to reliable, scalable production systems
  • Provide technical leadership across platform infrastructure, data pipelines, applied modelling, real-time services, and external APIs
  • Act as architectural steward of the platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency as complexity increases
  • Build and evolve engineering practices around system design, DevOps, observability, automation, and operating production systems at scale
  • Lead, coach, and develop the engineering team, establishing clear standards, progression paths, and a strong engineering culture
  • Lead the platform’s evolution to serve external customers and partners, with clear guarantees around reliability, data freshness, versioning, and service expectations

Requirements

  • Have led or managed engineers in a start-up or scale-up environment
  • Have strong hands-on experience with cloud architecture, within AWS
  • Have experience working across product engineering, data systems, and platform infrastructure
  • Have built and operated production systems with high requirements around reliability, performance, and cost control
  • Be able to balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term architectural health
  • Be comfortable operating in an experiment-driven, discovery-focused environment, and know how to transition from exploration to production
  • Be an effective people leader, or actively looking to grow into a broader leadership role
  • Be familiar with machine learning concepts and the infrastructure required to deploy and operate models in production
  • Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Be excited by the opportunity to shape Picnic’s engineering function and platform from the ground up
  • Experience in advertising technology is a bonus, but not required.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureAWSdata pipelinesapplied modellingreal-time servicessystem designDevOpsobservabilityautomationmachine learning
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcoachingpeople leadershipcommunicationdecision makingproblem solvingteam developmentadaptabilitystrategic thinkingcollaboration