Head of Software Engineering (Industrial IoT)

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global builds Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet-of-Things products that connect physical environments with digital systems for manufacturers and other enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Define the engineering operating model, technical roadmaps, capacity plans, quarterly OKRs, and delivery governance.
• Own intake, prioritisation, estimation, sprint planning, release readiness, and portfolio stage gates.
• Set direction for architecture, APIs, data, cloud infrastructure, observability, SLOs, error budgets, and incident reviews.
• Own the DevOps toolchain, SDLC practices, CI/CD platform, infrastructure as code, environments, testing, and security scanning.
• Lead quality, security, documentation, reliability, and continuous-improvement practices across engineering.
• Manage architects, developers, and testers, including recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, resource planning, and stakeholder communication.

Requirements

• Track record of leading engineering at Head of Engineering level or equivalent.
• Hands-on coding capability in at least one modern language such as C#, Java, Python, or JavaScript, with willingness to contribute to reference implementations, reviews, and technical spikes.
• Experience with DevOps/CI/CD, Git, pipelines, artifact repositories, infrastructure as code, Terraform or Bicep, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure or AWS.
• Strong software architecture expertise covering domain-driven design, modular monoliths or microservices, eventing, APIs, and data design.
• Proven quality leadership in test automation, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated security leadership covering secure coding, vulnerability management, SBOMs, supply-chain security, and threat modelling.
• Expertise in modern Agile delivery, including Scrum or Kanban, product collaboration, and lightweight portfolio scaling patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with a high computing content.
• Ability to communicate complex topics to varied audiences, build high-trust teams, make pragmatic technical decisions, and manage end-to-end reliability and delivery flow.

Nice to have

• Experience with manufacturing or location-based solutions, industrial interfaces such as OPC or MQTT, data streaming, and edge deployment.
• Familiarity with documentation workflows, technical authoring standards, ITIL-aligned change and release processes, and ISO/IEC quality or security frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time salaried employment within a privately held company of approximately 65 employees.
• Engineering culture centred on craftsmanship, documentation, continuous improvement, blameless reviews, and high-trust collaboration.
• Documentation is treated as a first-class deliverable, with architecture notes, API references, and user guides accompanying releases.
• Occasional national and international travel is required.
• Engineering performance is tracked through delivery, quality, security, reliability, flow, and people-leadership KPIs.