Job Description
About us
We’re an award-winning tech consultancy based in Leeds and Manchester that partners with the UK’s most exciting startups and scale-ups to help them accelerate their roadmap, bridge their skills gaps, and create products that scale.
We formed in August 2022 and provide hands-on and advisory support across product management, design, and engineering to the likes of thinkmoney, RiskSmart, N Brown, and BigChange.
We’re firm believers that the best products in the world are powered by customer-obsessed, cross-functional teams. To this end, Hyperact was intentionally shaped around the three key pillars of product, design, and engineering, and we’re keen to bring onboard an accomplished engineering leader to complement the founding team.
Role
This is a unique opportunity for an established engineering leader to build Hyperact’s engineering function, to instil and evolve engineering best practices at our growing client base of exciting and disruptive tech companies.
This will likely involve:
* Setting the tone, quality bar, and future direction of engineering at Hyperact
* Initially, billable client work in either hands-on or engineering leadership roles
* Seeding and growing Hyperact’s engineering function
* Advising clients on engineering best practice and future tech strategy
* Thought leadership, in the form of appearances at events and conferences, blogging, and an active social media presence
* Contributing to bids and pitches for new opportunities
* Driving business development, leveraging and growing their network
* Continuing to build out Hyperact’s internal systems and tech estate
About you
Essential
* Deep experience as both an engineering practitioner and leader, ideally at modern product organisations
* Engineering breadth and depth - you’ll be an expert in one or more areas, but have a broad understanding and appreciation of various others e.g. full-stack, devops, data engineering, mobile, web, multiple languages / frameworks
* An appreciation of and passion for cross-functional product development, particularly focused on the intersection of product management, design, and engineering
* The ambition and drive to grow something truly great
Nice to have
* A thought leader, active on the conference and event scene and social media
* Experience as a consultant embedded within a client organisation
* Experience bidding and pitching to win consultancy work
Package
* Salary - £90,000 - £125,000
* Share options - 1.0 - 2.5% EMI scheme plus option to buy in
* Pension contributions - up to 5% of salary
* Discretionary performance bonus - up to 10% of salary
* New business referral bonus
* Holidays - 25 + bank holidays, increasing to 30
* L&D budget - £1,500 per annum
* Life assurance (4 x salary)
* Income protection (75% of salary)
* Critical illness (2 x salary)
* Dental (Bupa Level 5)
* 24/7 Digital GP
* Employee Wellbeing Programme
* Free will writing
* The YuLife App