Director of Engineering

Wheely provides premium chauffeured transportation across major cities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, combining technology with five-star chauffeuring. Its service is used by more than 100,000 active riders and 1,200 corporate accounts.

• Own the end-to-end technical direction of the platform, including deciding whether to continue with microservices or reconsider the architecture
• Build real-time systems end to end, especially for the driver app’s location, dispatch, and ride-state features under adversarial network conditions
• Lead the engineering approach to privacy and define how data flows through the systems
• Own and grow the agent harness that enables other teams to integrate AI into workflows previously handled by people; shape its future beyond its current Rust implementation
• Help establish London as an engineering hub by hiring, deciding with the leadership team which work belongs in London versus Cyprus, and setting the culture for the new office while staying closely connected to the main hub

• Experience designing backend systems from scratch, not only maintaining, scaling, or rewriting systems built by others; be prepared to discuss design trade-offs in detail during the interview
• Experience with real-time systems at consumer scale
• Several years of managing engineers, including hiring and firing decisions that can be defended in detail
• Based in London or willing to relocate there
• Willing to travel regularly to the Cyprus hub, especially early on

• Office-based in West London four days a week, with one remote day of choice
• Flexible start and finish times
• Employee stock options plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Life and critical illness cover
• Latest-generation MacBook Pro and 4K display
• Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional development stipend
• Relocation support, including visa sponsorship and allowance