[Hiring] VP of Engineering @BibliU

Role Description

BibliU is hiring a VP Engineering to lead and grow its engineering function. This role owns team leadership, engineering standards, technical governance, security posture, and delivery against the product roadmap.

• The engineering organisation today is about 15 engineers across application and platform, primarily full stack TypeScript on AWS, with 1-2 managers but otherwise a fairly flat team structure.
• You'll inherit a function that has been through a period of change, and is in the middle of changing how software gets built.
• The first six months are about earning the team's trust, getting delivery predictable, and landing AI-assisted development as a standard part of how the team works rather than scattered individual use.
• This is a build job: growing the team as the business grows, setting the architecture direction for the next stage, and taking BibliU's platform from $100m revenue to what comes after.
• It is expected that product and engineering will sit under a single leader longer term, so you'll spend your time on engineering rather than on cross-functional alignment.

What Success Looks Like in year one:

• The team is stable, growing, and the engineering managers are developing under you.
• Security posture is documented, owned and defensible, and customer security reviews are routine rather than fire drills.
• Availability, performance and incident metrics are improving.
• Delivery is predictable, with an honest roadmap and a release process the team trusts.
• AI-assisted development is measurably in use across the team, under agreed review and quality standards, with quality and security metrics improved against the baseline set in month one.
• Multiple engineering workflows have materially changed, with the before/after evidenced.
• Engineering standards, architecture decisions and technical debt are documented, and there's a credible architecture plan for the next stage of scale.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading software engineering or application development functions at VP, Director or CTO level.
• A track record of leading teams through change.
• Demonstrated accountability for delivery of complex web and mobile applications, including release governance.
• Experience managing engineering teams and technical leads.
• Full stack TypeScript and AWS experience is required.
• Track record of owning application security: secure coding practice, vulnerability management, audit and customer security review.

Requirements

• Experience implementing development governance, DevOps practice, CI/CD and quality assurance standards.
• Proven ability to manage technical risk and align engineering output with commercial objectives, and to report both credibly to senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and modern development frameworks.
• A considered, practical position on AI-assisted development: tooling, guardrails, review, and how to measure real gains.
• Experience in SaaS, EdTech, FinTech or other product-led digital environments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and secure coding practices, and of the certifications customers ask about.
• Familiarity with international product deployments and multi-region infrastructure.
• Exposure to data-driven product optimisation and analytics frameworks.
• Experience in a resource-constrained scale-up, where pragmatism and sequencing matter more than ideal solutions.

Benefits

• 🌴 35 days holiday per year (excluding public holidays!) - yep, that’s not a typo!
• 🎂 Your birthday off.
• 🌱 12 scheduled company wellness Fridays off per year.
• ❤️ Enhanced maternity & paternity allowance.
• ⏰ Flexible working hours - we’re a remote team spread across the US and UK.
• 💻 Work-from-home allowance to help you set up your dream WFH station.
• 🚴 Cycle-to-work scheme (UK).
• 🛟 Life Insurance up to 4 x salary.
• ❤️ Private health insurance.
• 👁️ Annual eye test and up to £100 towards frames for glasses required for DSE work.