What you’ll be doing
- Own engineering execution for Machines4U, from product development and platform reliability to engineering practices and delivery cadence
- Translate business priorities set by senior leadership into a clear, sequenced engineering roadmap and deliver against it
- Lead a high-performing, distributed engineering team, and hold the behavioural and technical bar
- Partner closely with product and carsales engineering counterparts to shape the Machines4U technology landscape and ensure engineering decisions serve commercial outcomes
- Lead the progressive modernisation of Machines4U’s technology stack, balancing legacy platform stability with migration to scalable, secure and group-aligned modern systems.
- Oversee key platform integrations and third-party technical dependencies, ensuring reliable interfaces across marketplace, CRM, payments, marketing, reporting and group systems.
- Own engineering input into security, reliability and compliance practices, ensuring risks are understood, prioritised and remediated pragmatically.
- Actively contribute to engineering practices, tooling, and culture across the carsales Engineering community
- Provide clear, credible engineering perspectives to senior leadership, including assessments of risk, trade-offs, and capacity
