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Head of Development

Head of Development

Proactive Appointments • London, South East England, UK
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Head of Development (Remote)

We're looking for an experienced Head of Development to lead our remote engineering organisation. Reporting to the CTO, you'll oversee a distributed team of Full Stack Developers (Node.js/JavaScript & React) and AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineers, taking ownership of technical delivery, architecture, and engineering excellence across our enterprise SaaS platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll have a strong software engineering background and remain comfortable writing production code when needed, while mentoring teams and driving technical strategy.

Key requirements:

  • 8+ years' software development experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with JavaScript/Node.js, React, REST APIs, and AWS.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and the Atlassian toolset.
  • Proven success leading distributed, remote-first engineering and DevOps teams.
  • Strong knowledge of scalable microservices, cloud architecture, security, and SaaS best practices.

Desirable:

  • AWS certifications.
  • Experience with AI/GenAI technologies (e.g. Amazon Bedrock).
  • Background in SaaS, ProcureTech, or enterprise software.

This is a fully remote opport...

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