VP of Engineering

💗 Mission: Elevate later life for everybody and build the social care sector of the future.

🏷️ Title: VP of Engineering (we are also open to hiring at Director level)

👫 Department: Tech - reporting to CEO.

🎁 Benefits & Culture: See here.

🌴 Holiday: 26 days + bank holidays.

💷 Salary: £150,000 +

📈 Equity: A very generous EMI share offering.

💻 Office Policy: Hybrid (Minimum of 2 core office days per week).

🌍 Location: London Bridge, London, UK.

🔍 The Opportunity:

Having grown to become the UK’s no. 1 care directory with over 1 million monthly users and over 5,000 care services, Lottie's founders are looking for a hands-on technology VP of Engineering to join Lottie for its scale-up stage of its journey (including overseas expansion) and to take full ownership of the engineering department. This individual will join Lottie’s executive team and will be expected to work closely with the Co-Founder & CEO, as well as other senior leadership to deliver on Lottie’s commercial goals and to drive product velocity - in pursuit of pioneering the world’s first transactional marketplace for care. The successful candidate will be given full responsibility of Lottie’s engineering department including org development, technical decision making and ensuring that we are building a scalable platform for the future.

🔢 Interview Process:

1. Talent screen led by Head of Talent.
2. Hiring manager interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO).
3. Culture interview with several members of Lottie’s senior team.
4. Technical assessment interview.
5. Final interview with founders and one other representative from Lottie’s board.

🤩 Candidate Experience: The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible

🚀 Meet Lottie

Founded by brother duo Chris & Will Donnelly, Lottie is a mission led HealthTech start-up reimaging how families understand, find and fund later life care.

Since launching in July 2021, Lottie has raised over £25m from leading venture capital funds including Accel, General Catalyst and Kindred, as well as from well known technology entrepreneurs including Mike Hudack (ex-CPTO of Deliveroo & Monzo) and Tom Blomfield (ex-CEO of Monzo Bank). Outside of funding, Lottie is the acclaimed winner of LinkedIn’s 2024 Top Startups award and placed second in Startups.co.uk’s 2024 index.

Lottie today offers three core products and services, including:

• Lottie’s Marketplace (B2B2C) - Free service that helps families find the UK’s best care homes and home care services.
• Found by Lottie (B2B) - Cloud-based software supporting care providers to effectively manage their enquiries, occupancy and invoicing.
• Seniorcare by Lottie (B2B) - Employee benefit helping companies deliver outstanding eldercare support to their employees.

Looking forward - Lottie and her team are now working towards pioneering the world’s first end-to-end marketplace experience for finding later life care – meaning families can seamlessly book care online and in a similar manner to reserving a hotel stay via Booking.com or Expedia. Beyond this, Lottie has her eyes set on international expansion with Lottie’s USA launch impending and with a view of making affordable care accessible everywhere in the world.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and developing a fast growing engineering org which currently consists of 20 engineers spanning across 4 cross functional product teams.
• Managing all lead engineers (engineering managers) and supporting them in their career growth, as well as their teams learning and development.
• Owning all technical decision making and overseeing the building of a future scalable platform that can expand overseas.
• Leveraging the latest technologies to solve the right problems (think things like Qwik, Sanity, tRPC etc)
• Drive engineering excellence including high efficiency of teams and development speed, with a strong focus on outcomes and impact.
• Creating a product engineering culture, aligning engineering against our northstar metrics from ideation, to prototyping, collaborating closely with the wider platform teams and getting features out into production.
• Building a market leading tech brand and hiring outstanding engineers, striving for excellence across the board.
• Fostering a fantastic team culture, built on Lottie’s core values of Ownership, Impact and Nimbleness.
• Partnering with the founders and other senior leadership (e.g. Head of Marketing, Head of Data Analytics, Head of Product, Head of Design, Head of Commercial) to make key strategic decisions and facilitate the growth of the company.
• Presenting strategic updates and progress in important meetings such as board meetings and company team days.

Who we’re ideally looking for

• 10+ years engineering experience with a proven track record in leadership roles.
• Inspirational leader who is outcome driven and has an “anything is possible” mindset.
• Hands-on technical leader that can still operate across the whole spectrum from strategy through to coding.
• Has worked with complex software systems - both front-end and back-end and understands the importance of good data structures, scalable architecture and a constantly evolving tech stack.
• Enjoys high levels of autonomy and is excited by leading a fast growing engineering org, as well as working with other leadership to deliver on Lottie’s commercial goals.
• Proven track record in delivering within cross functional teams and in-depth knowledge of B2B/B2C product product development.
• Experience in building e-commerce and/or marketplaces businesses.
• Detailed understanding of performance and SEO marketing.
• Commercially minded and is able to effectively translate business targets into engineering department OKR’s.

Why this might be exciting

• A career defining opportunity to lead Lottie’s technology function and to oversee the building of a product that positively impacts millions of people's lives.
• Solving a real tangible problem that every family faces at some point in their life.
• Care is one of the final remaining large consumer industries that is yet to be disrupted and positively revolutionised by technology.
• Global opportunity with Lottie’s international expansion scheduled for 2025/2026.
• Exposure to leading tier 1 venture capital investors including Accel and General Catalyst.
• Large budget available to invest in the future of Lottie’s technology function.
• Highly experienced but non-technical founders meaning the successful candidate will get high levels of autonomy and will be responsible for setting the technical direction.
• Nimble product building environment with minimal bureaucracy and a highly adaptable environment.
• An outstanding company culture! Lottie recently won LinkedIn’s 2024 Top Startups award and has achieved a 5/5 employee review score on Glassdoor.

We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.