Head of Engineering (Climate Tech)

Location: Hybrid role based three days per week at the London LABS Camden office; right to work in the UK required.

Company

Climate technology company building a carbon accounting and compliance platform that converts supply-chain data into decision-grade insight for commodity producers, traders, sustainability teams, and finance leaders.

What you will do

• Own technical strategy, architecture, key technical decisions, and alignment with evolving company goals.
• Steer ingestion pipelines, provenance tracking, CBAM data-sharing workflows, scalability, reliability, and audit readiness.
• Build, coach, hire, onboard, and retain engineers while managing career development and performance.
• Define QA, testing, code review, delivery, incident management, and retrospective practices.
• Balance features, technical debt, reliability, and customer commitments with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Carbon teams.
• Lead AI adoption in engineering and across the business, represent technology to enterprise customers, and manage headcount, budget, tooling, and infrastructure costs.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience with significant experience leading engineering teams, ideally in a scaling startup or SaaS company.
• Strong foundation in modern web applications and distributed systems, with fluency in Python, TypeScript, cloud architecture, IaC/Terraform, and CI/CD sufficient to steer decisions without writing production code.
• Proven experience hiring, coaching, and retaining engineers and building healthy, high-performing team cultures.
• Experience introducing and maturing delivery planning, QA, code review, and incident management processes in a growing team.
• Pragmatic judgment when balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong collaboration skills with founders, Product, and Commercial teams, including feasibility and prioritization decisions.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to non-technical colleagues and working credibly with enterprise customers.
• Hands-on experience driving AI adoption in engineering teams and curiosity about wider business applications of AI.
• Right to work in the UK required.

Nice to have

• Experience with data-intensive systems where data quality, lineage, or auditability matter.
• Understanding of SOC 2 or ISO 27001 security and compliance frameworks.
• Experience in climate tech or sustainability.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid, co-located work with hubs across the UK and US and weekly team lunches in the office.
• 28 days of annual leave, private healthcare, company pension with salary-sacrifice options, and generous parental leave.
• £500 home-office setup allowance and £1,000 annual learning allowance.
• Office gym, cycle-to-work scheme, and £1,000 toward expenses for working abroad.
• Inclusive, equitable, and supportive environment focused on ownership, pragmatism, customer focus, and climate impact.