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Head of Engineering (The Body Coach)

We’re committed to creating incredible digital products for our customers and fans and have handpicked a product development partner that we consider the world’s best. Up until now the engineering team has been led by our partner, ustwo, but given the commitment and scale of our ambitions we need someone 100% committed to leading our technology efforts into the future - mobile, backend and frontend, as well as continuing to work with our partners. We are looking for an exceptional and experienced Head of Engineering to be part of our next chapter. Our ambition is to help millions of people become healthy, fit and happy. The aspiration is high, and so is our commitment.

About the Body Coach

At the Body Coach we are on a mission to make the world fitter, healthier and happier. We cannot do this alone, so we are building a community of talent to enable our mission and are currently looking for a Head of Engineering.

The Body Coach story goes back almost 10 years when Joe Wicks started handing out flyers at his local train station - trying to encourage people to come to his bootcamp in the park. Ten years and some 600,000 clients later, the brand has grown with his passion and now spans the 90 day plan, Europe’s biggest YouTube fitness channel, 9 best-selling books and most recently - the launch of the Body Coach App!

Our values

As the leader of the technology discipline at The Body Coach, the Head of Engineering role is key to ensuring that we are building things the right way and with the right technologies, but most importantly we are looking for people who share our values and commitment to make the world fitter, healthier and happier .

Community

We love bringing people together in a community where everyone feels supported and lifts one another.

Inspiring

More people to achieve their personal goals – to happier and healthier lives.

Fitness for all

Getting fitter and healthier should be available to everyone.

You

You matter. We are there to help you reach your goals and your personal success is ours.

Fun

We love to smile and who says getting fitter and healthier can’t be fun?

The role

You will be the most senior technical voice in the company, and will be responsible for technical decision-making, solution architecture, ways-of-working, and making sure that our technology is current, robust and performant.

You will be the first key engineering hire for the business and will also be responsible for building and leading a world-class team in-house.

We have already built an impressive, progressive technical infrastructure and have implemented a complete custom backend along with native mobile apps for iOS and Android (coming soon) using best-in-class technologies. You will be joining as the leading voice for how we continuously evolve, improve and scale our platform to meet the vision and the international potential of the product.

It goes without saying that you’re an exceptional leader with a diverse and deep set of technical skills, who is excited by the potential of The Body Coach App and business. You have the chops - we don’t care if you’ve delivered 100 projects, but we do care that you have delivered and scaled at least one incredible product that blows our mind. The Body Coach App is growing fast. We have an exceptional team and significant growth plans.

This is a leadership role and you will work directly with the CEO, COO and Head of Product of The Body Coach.

Your key responsibilities

1. Build, recruit and lead the Body Coach’s in-house engineering team(s)
2. Own the technical roadmap for The Body Coach’s complete tech stack - backend, frontend, native mobile and web.
3. Own the technical architecture and any associated decision-making, with the ability to engage any technology discipline on issues, decisions and technical direction. You will be responsible for a diverse set of codebases and technologies, as well as key decisions about how to build high-level features/functionality, technical solution architecture, integration with and evaluation/selection of partner services, etc.
4. Work directly with the different technical disciplines - native iOS and Android, backend / fullstack, DevOps, and frontend. You have the skills and experience to work effectively across these technologies and understand their individual complexities as well as their interdependencies.
5. Own the selection and management of critical third-party vendors/systems for all areas of the technical ecosystem.
6. Work directly and actively with the Product team on the product roadmap, backlog, and product strategy, ensuring that there is alignment between the Product and Engineering teams and roadmaps.
7. Help drive the Agile development process and collaborative ways of working that keeps our product on the cutting edge, providing leadership to the teams and making sure they are current in their development practices, toolchains, and implementation approach.
8. Work with teams across the Body Coach (Product, Support Heroes, Marketing, Content, Leadership) to ensure we always deliver for our customers and they’re able to enjoy a brilliant and compelling experience every time they interact with us.
9. Share accountability for delivering against critical metrics for our business and products.
10. Contribute to The Body Coach developing a positive, progressive and inclusive working culture as we realise our bold plans for growth.

Who you are

• You are an inspiring people leader; engineers want to work and learn from you and you have built and scaled multiple engineering teams before at speed.
• You are a technical leader, with mastery of software architectural patterns, development practices, and the technology landscape. but still keep your hands on technology and can contribute to codebases and/or review code confidently.
• You have worked hands-on architecting and building complex, multi-tier technical solutions, and can walk through multiple examples of systems you have been the lead in creating.
• You have experience working collaboratively in a leadership position within a digital product org, working with disciplines such as Product, Strategy, Design, Marketing, Insights & Data.
• You understand the importance of the bigger picture, thinking big and maintaining our vision while also being detail oriented.
• You know it's not just about the ideas, it's about execution and you get things done, quickly.
• You’re a confident and comfortable communicator, able to explain decisions as well as articulate complex concepts or technical concepts in an understandable way. You can engage with developers, designers and Product Owners as easily as you can with the C-suite/CEOs/business leaders.
• You’re insight and data driven. You base your decisions on facts rather than opinions.
• You’re calm when things get hectic, you're comfortable with complexity and can make hard tradeoffs on priority. You work transparently and collaboratively with your teams.
• You're positive and bring a can-do attitude to the big challenges, but you know how to deliver a qualified ‘no’ when it counts.
• You’re curious and creative. You never stop learning or asking questions.
• You’re passionate about product development and constantly seeking to improve your ways of working and how the team approaches things.
• You’re passionate about health, wellbeing and fitness.

Requirements

You are able to demonstrate:

1. 10+ years professional experience working in technology.
2. Experience building and scaling products utilizing PaaS offerings such as AWS, GCP, Azure - and experience using and scaling their managed services (e.g. Cognito, RDS, etc.). Relevant experience building in-house or on-prem solutions can also be applicable here, depending on the architecture.
3. Experience building and managing complex infrastructure utilizing DevOps (e.g. Chef, Puppet) and/or IaaC tools (e.g. Terraform).
4. Experience with mobile application development and deployment.
5. Experience working with Agile development methods to bring predictability to your release cycles.
6. Experience working effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment such as a startup or fast-moving digital organization.
7. Experience creating and executing a recruitment process and leading team.

It would be a plus if you had:

1. Experience with serverless architectures.
2. Domain expertise in fitness or wellbeing.

What's in it for you

£95k - £150k p.a.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.