• A high-performing, self-managed engineering organization, known for its high standard of quality, delivery predictability, and agentic efficiency. • Set and uphold the technical bar across architecture, code quality, testing, and engineering standards. • Coach engineers on craft, judgment, autonomy, and technical decision-making through review, feedback, and architecture conversations. • Build a team that delivers reliably without depending on the manager as a bottleneck or single point of failure. • Set clear objectives, establish useful dashboards and review cadences, and use data to improve team performance. • Own architecture and technical direction across varied project types, stacks, and languages. • Lead effectively on unfamiliar stacks by relying on strong engineering principles, systems, and review practices. • Run a code review culture that catches issues early, teaches consistently, and keeps quality high across projects. • Increase the team’s use of AI coding tools and agents through clear patterns, guardrails, and review discipline. • Stay hands-on by contributing code to high-risk work, hard problems, spikes, and patterns the team can build from. • Plan monthly delivery cycles so work is clearly sized, realistically committed, and reliably completed across client projects. • Hold the team to strong task discipline, including clear ownership, accurate status, self-review before QA, and follow-through. • Own engineering hiring and assess candidates for craft, judgment, autonomy, and team fit. • Partner with design, product, and client-facing teammates to keep delivery clear, coordinated, and well-specified. • Own and evolve the engineering operating system, including standards, patterns, review practices, and rituals. • Communicate proactively across a remote team, sharing progress, decisions, risks, and recommendations early.

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams (Mobile and Backend), conducting 1-on-1s, individual development plans (IDPs), performance reviews, and talent retention. • Translate and cascade the company's strategic plans to the team, ensuring technical direction is aligned with business objectives. • Ensure delivery of end-to-end solutions, from in-app experience to backend service robustness, working closely with Product Managers (PMs), Product Designers, and other leaders. • Facilitate communication between technical teams and business areas, ensuring transparency, visibility of timelines, and alignment of expectations. • Foster an environment of psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous feedback, acting as an ambassador of Stone's culture. • Promote technical excellence through best practices (Clean Code, clean architecture, CI/CD, DevSecOps, use of RFCs, and a documentation culture). • Monitor OKRs and team and product health metrics (mobile delivery cycle metrics and DORA metrics for backend). • Handle ambiguous scenarios, distributed architectures, and challenging prioritizations, balancing delivery speed and technical debt.

• Lead an organization of 7+ teams to deliver high-impact results, directly managing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. • Foster a culture of mentorship and coaching, focusing on the professional growth and leadership capabilities of your direct reports. • Partner with Product Directors and VPs to align roadmaps with commercial goals, customer needs and technical strategy. • Contribute to the maturity of the entire engineering function, collaborating with peers and leading by example, such as leverage the best of the shifting AI landscape • Instill a "customer outcome" mindset, ensuring teams are solving the right problems rather than just shipping features. • Balance the value of commercial delivery with the necessity of managing support, technical debt, and architectural risks. • Navigate and resolve issues pragmatically, providing clarity and direction to your teams when paths are unclear. • Oversee the holistic health of your teams through effective use of data to drive tangible improvements • Serve as a point of escalation for issues and incidents across your teams, ensuring sustainable preventative measures and post-mortem learning. • Support and input into our strategic direction, providing a technical perspective for investment planning and scenario modeling.

Role Description As an Engineering Director, you will support Arbor’s growth as we scale beyond market leadership. You won't just manage teams; you will help to evolve our engineering identity, shape our strategic direction and reimagine our ways of working to ensure we stay at the forefront of the industry’s AI evolution. - Lead an organization of 7+ teams to deliver high-impact results, directly managing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. - Foster a culture of mentorship and coaching, focusing on the professional growth and leadership capabilities of your direct reports. - Partner with Product Directors and VPs to align roadmaps with commercial goals, customer needs and technical strategy. - Contribute to the maturity of the entire engineering function, collaborating with peers and leading by example, such as leverage the best of the shifting AI landscape. - Instill a "customer outcome" mindset, ensuring teams are solving the right problems rather than just shipping features. - Balance the value of commercial delivery with the necessity of managing support, technical debt, and architectural risks. - Navigate and resolve issues pragmatically, providing clarity and direction to your teams when paths are unclear. - Oversee the holistic health of your teams through effective use of data to drive tangible improvements. - Serve as a point of escalation for issues and incidents across your teams, ensuring sustainable preventative measures and post-mortem learning. - Support and input into our strategic direction, providing a technical perspective for investment planning and scenario modeling. Qualifications - Exceptional people management experience, with a proven track record of managing and growing managers and Senior individual contributors. - Extensive experience leading multiple teams whilst collaborating with peers on standardised ways of working and organizational growth. - Demonstrable examples of using data and metrics as a "carrot" for continuous improvement rather than a "stick" for management. - Proven ability to partner with and effectively challenge Product leaders to balance commercial value with technical sustainability. - Examples of operating with a sense of urgency, coupled with the ability to thrive in a high-autonomy, high-ambiguity environment. - Real world experience of leading teams through organizational shifts, process changes, or rapid scaling challenges. - Demonstrated success in building high performance engineering teams, without losing speed or autonomy. - Expert communication skills, capable of advocating for technical excellence, building credibility with engineers and "challenging upward" to influence direction. - A strong foundation/background in modern software architecture, with the ability to maintain technical credibility and trust with senior individual contributors. - An understanding of how AI-first engineering will change the SDLC and how to lead through change where there is no playbook, ideally with examples. Benefits - The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work every day. - A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more! - 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas. - Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary. - Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks. - Private Dental Insurance with Bupa. - Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows. - Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay. - 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life! - Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching). - All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you. - Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success. - Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc). - Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year. - Dog friendly offices! Interview Process - Phone screen - 1st stage - 2nd stage