Wheely - Director of Engineering
Requirements
• You have designed backend systems from scratch (not only maintained, scaled, or rewritten what someone else built). We'll spend real time in the interview on the trade-offs you made and why. • Real-time systems experience at consumer scale. • Several years of managing engineers, with hiring and firing calls you'd defend in detail. Total headcount matters less to us than the calibre and the outcomes. • Based in London. We sponsor visas: you don't need to be in the UK today, you just need to be willing to move. Regular travel to our Cyprus hub expected, especially early on.
Responsibilities
• Own the technical direction of the platform end to end — including the architectural questions that haven't been answered yet, like whether to keep moving toward microservices or reconsider. • Make real-time work, end to end. Driver app especially (location, dispatch, ride state) all of it under adversarial network conditions. • Lead the privacy story on the engineering side — what's actually different about how data flows through our systems vs. every other ride-hailing company. • Own and grow the agent harness so other teams can wire AI into workflows that used to need people. Today it's Rust. Tomorrow's shape is yours. • Help build London as an engineering hub. That means hiring into it, deciding (with the rest of the leadership team) what work makes sense in London vs Cyprus, and setting the culture for a new office while staying tightly coupled to the main hub.
Benefits
• Office-based role in West London, four days a week with flexible start and finish times, plus one remote day of your choice • Employee stock options plan • Private medical and dental insurance • Life and critical illness cover • Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4k display • Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys • Cycle to Work scheme • Professional development stipend • Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance • All of your personal information will be collected stored and processed in accordance with Wheely’s Candidate Privacy Notice
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