Engineering Director

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Reapit is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years.

Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience.

Worldwide, over 78,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use Reapit to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time.

Job Description

Reporting to VP of Engineering you’ll be involved in:

  • Leading and line-managing a regional engineering group (c.20–25 engineers) across multiple squads, setting the tone for a high-performance, inclusive culture.
  • Partnering with Product to align regional roadmaps to business goals and ensure squads are appropriately resourced against near- and longer-term priorities (6–24 months).
  • Owning regional resource planning, hiring and development pathways, and embedding clear, skills-based progression and performance management.
  • Driving modern engineering practices across SDLC, CI/CD and QA—championing automation, test-first thinking and “always ship each cycle.”
  • Collaborating with Architecture, Security, DevOps and QA to deliver secure, well-architected services on a shared platform, while managing technical debt and legacy modernisation.
  • Acting as principal point of escalation for key accounts and a trusted voice in the Regional Leadership Team and Product Council.
  • Contributing to budget and capital allocation decisions, ensuring engineering investment aligns with business outcomes.

In this capacity, your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading people operations (hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, reviews), ensuring timely HR ceremonies and strong pastoral care.
  • Running skills assessments, identifying gaps, and enabling tailored upskilling and mentoring across levels from Junior to Principal.
  • Structuring squads and BAU/elastic capacity models to balance roadmap delivery with strategic initiatives.
  • Establishing and reporting on engineering metrics (e.g., DORA, test coverage, code quality, debt reduction) through Quarterly Tech Reviews.
  • Championing a secure-by-design approach, data governance, and timely remediation of CVEs in partnership with the CISO team.
  • Aligning toolchains and practices (One JIRA, GitHub Enterprise/GitHub Actions) to drive consistency and efficiency.
  • Orchestrating incident response, coordinating the operational fix and stakeholder communications.
  • Supporting GTM with technical insight to improve product marketing, sales enablement and customer outcomes.

Requirements

At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst all the listed qualities are desirable, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

  • Proven senior software engineering leader, with multi-squad line management of ~20–25 engineers across product delivery and operations.
  • Strong technical background in an engineering discipline, ideally across the full stack – we work in AWS, C# .NET, TypeScript, Node, React, Perl and Kotlin stacks.
  • Track record partnering with Product to translate strategy into resourced, measurable delivery plans over 6–24 months.
  • Deep people leadership: performance management, career pathways, mentoring and inclusive culture building.
  • Expertise in modern SDLC and quality practices (testing pyramid, automation, CI/CD), with familiarity with GitHub Actions and enterprise toolchains.
  • Strong grasp of secure software development, data governance and vulnerability management in collaboration with Security.
  • Comfortable managing technical debt and guiding modernisation from legacy to scalable, cloud-based architectures.
  • Confident stakeholder manager across senior internal leaders and strategic customers; calm, clear communicator under pressure.
  • Commercial mindset: experience contributing to budgets and capital allocation against business outcomes.

What We Offer

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and there is no expectation around in-person attendance, beyond occasional ad-hoc project meetings in our Solihull or London offices. We’re offering the chance to really make a difference here at Reapit and the opportunity for personal growth is very real.

You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

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Location:
England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£125,000 - £150,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering