Engineering Director

About this role

OUR MISSION

At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved.

We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility.

The opportunity is massive. Every enterprise on the planet has this problem and nobody has solved it. We’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup https://sifted.eu/leaderboards/sifted-future-50-2025 in Europe & the Sunday Times' #1 Best Medium Sized Tech Company To Work for.

Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-freeman-a8542166/, Abs https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhirukt/, Sabrina https://www.linkedin.com/in/scastiglione/, and Rebe https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecatristan/.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE TEAM AND LIFE AT OMNEA HERE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpjeHyocsu3ZoDn3sfODjqIR2L_DW3dgb.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're looking for an ambitious and talented Director of Engineering to join Omnea, the UK's #1 Startup in 2026 https://startups.co.uk/startups-100/2026/omnea/, as a senior member of our Engineering leadership team. You'll report directly to our CTO, Dhruv Kumar https://www.linkedin.com/in/dk418, who joined us from Voy and has scaled engineering organizations at Hopin, Charlotte Tilbury, and THG.

This is a manager-of-managers role. You'll lead a group of Engineering Managers and Team Leads: 25-50 engineers across several teams. You'll own the outcomes, org design, and technical direction of a significant slice of the product.

As we grow from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers and through 10x revenue growth in the next 2-3 years, you'll play a crucial role in building the best Engineering function in its category. You'll operate with high autonomy, partnering with the CTO, Product leadership, and your peers across R&D to turn strategy into shipped software.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Build and lead the leaders:

- Hire, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and Team Leads. Your primary output is their effectiveness, not your own.

- Set and hold a high performance bar across the group, including the harder calls on performance and leveling.

- Own org design for your area: how teams are shaped, sized, and split as the product and company grow.

- Build the bench: identify and grow the next generation of engineering leaders at Omnea.

- Own the headcount plan for your group, from business case through to hiring.

Own delivery at group scale:

- Be accountable for the outcomes of several teams at once, not the output of any one of them.

- Create the operating rhythm (planning, prioritization, and reporting) that keeps a multi-team group moving quickly and predictably.

- Unblock at the seams: the cross-team dependencies, ambiguous ownership, and architectural decisions that no single team can resolve.

- Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response across your area.

Shape technical and product strategy:

- Partner with the CTO and Product leadership to define and execute the technical roadmap for your domain.

- Make the build/buy, architecture, and technical investment calls that shape the platform for years, and bring the rest of R&D with you.

- Balance technical debt, feature development, and reliability, and be able to defend those trade-offs to the exec team.

- Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities, including direct time with enterprise customers.

Teams and products you might end up working on:

- Accounting and Goods Receipting – ensuring procurement and finance teams have the right information and tools to operate accurately, automatically, and at scale.

- Insights and Reporting – deep, complex custom visualizations bringing together AI and data to surface meaningful insights and context across the platform.

- Sourcing – building the tools that find the right suppliers, shape the right deals, and make sure the best option is already in play before a request is even created.

- Workflow Orchestration – the configurable backbone of our systems that accurately model company operations, underpinning a single source of truth.

- And many more areas we’re actively starting or expanding upon!

ABOUT YOU

Leadership Experience:

- You have 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership.

- You have 2+ years managing managers, having hired, coached, and where necessary, performance-managed Engineering Managers or Team Leads.

- You've led a group of 25-50 engineers across multiple teams and owned the org design for it.

- You've demonstrated success in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, particularly in rapid-growth periods.

- Ideally, you've done this at more than one company, including at least one successful Series A+ B2B SaaS company.

Technical Excellence:

- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern web technologies.

- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture (preferably AWS), and scalability challenges.

- Experience with our stack (TypeScript, React, AWS Serverless) is a plus, but not required.

Track Record of Impact:

- Strong track record of delivering complex, multi-team programs that moved company…