VP of Engineering (EV Charging)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global builds intelligent, connected energy infrastructure for electrified homes and the grid, combining EV charging hardware, cloud platforms, data and analytics, and customer-facing applications.

What you will do

• Lead and scale engineering teams across cloud infrastructure, backend services, data platforms, and applications.
• Translate company and product strategy into engineering roadmaps, execution plans, and delivery standards.
• Provide technical leadership for the AWS-based microservices architecture and evolve UltraGrid, the cloud operating system for connected energy assets.
• Oversee real-time telemetry ingestion, streaming pipelines, time-series analytics, machine learning, and forecasting at scale.
• Partner with hardware and firmware teams on cloud-device interfaces, OTA workflows, diagnostics, remote configuration, and device lifecycle support.
• Own platform reliability, uptime, observability, incident response, technical debt management, and engineering organisation development.

Requirements

• Senior engineering leadership experience at Director or VP level in cloud and platform engineering.
• Strong background in distributed systems and AWS-based architectures.
• Experience operating real-time, event-driven systems at significant scale.
• Proven ability to collaborate with hardware and firmware engineering teams.
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organisations.
• Strong technical judgment, delivery focus, and experience with reliability and operational excellence.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT, connected devices, or edge-to-cloud systems.
• Experience with telemetry, time-series data, or control systems.
• Familiarity with energy, EV charging, or grid-connected platforms.
• Exposure to machine learning and analytics platforms at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior leadership role at the centre of the platform strategy.
• Ownership of cloud systems operating at real-world, grid scale.
• Close partnership with the CTO and senior leadership team.
• Opportunity to build infrastructure for the future of energy.