Director of Engineering, Platform & Scale (Remote UK)
Konnecto
Who We Are
At Partnerize, we're on a mission to transform the way businesses grow. We've built the leading partnership automation platform that empowers brands to discover, engage, and convert their audiences at scale. From affiliate marketing to influencer collaborations, we help our clients build and manage profitable partnerships that drive real results. We're a team of passionate problem-solvers who are dedicated to helping our clients win in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.
Why Join Us
We're looking for passionate, talented people who want to be part of a winning team. At Partnerize, you'll find a culture of collaboration, innovation, and respect. We're guided by our core values, and we're committed to creating an environment where everyone can do their best work. We also offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a flexible work environment that allows you to thrive both personally and professionally. If you're ready to grow your career and make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Summary
The Director of Engineering is a key leadership role at the intersection of technical depth, people management, and product partnership. At Partnerize, we operate a high-scale platform processing over a billion daily events. You will be responsible for overseeing multiple cross-functional engineering teams through Engineering Managers, driving the development and execution of strategies that ensure high throughput, resilience, and observability. This is not a purely strategic role; you are a technical authority who leads through judgment, guiding architectural decisions and working closely with engineers on complex distributed systems.
The Things You Care About
At the heart of our platform, we track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for our customers. We work with a lot of data, generating over a billion events across our infrastructure daily. We aim to make as much of this data available in real-time as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale! Our platform is powered by our REST APIs and everything is developed with an API-first approach.
The primary technologies we use are PHP, Python, JavaScript (React), and Kafka. Data is stored in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Druid, and Redis. We are constantly evolving our platform and tools to take advantage of the ever-changing tech landscape. We deploy to production several times a day.
As a Director of Engineering at Partnerize, you will:
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Lead through Managers: Manage Engineering Managers and Agile Delivery Leads of cross-functional teams, owning delivery, quality, and system reliability.
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Act as Technical Authority: Guide architecture across backend and platform systems—not just reviewing it, but actively shaping the design of high-concurrency, event-driven systems.
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Partner with Product: Collaborate closely with Product leaders to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and balance speed against scalability and technical debt.
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Drive Engineering Standards: Develop and maintain processes and best practices for distributed systems and APIs to enable high-quality software delivery at scale.
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Manage Outcomes: Take ownership of technical outcomes and system health, ensuring infrastructure is designed for resilience and observability.
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Nurture Talent: Act as a mentor and role model for Engineering Managers and senior engineers, strengthening both technical and leadership capability across the tribe.
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Foster Culture: Drive a culture of high ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring engineering efforts align with organizational goals.
You are an experienced Engineering Leader with:
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Proven Management Scale: Experience leading multiple engineering teams (including managing other managers) in a fast-paced, product-led environment.
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Deep Technical Roots: A strong background in backend or platform engineering, with the demonstrable ability to design and critique distributed systems at scale.
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Architectural Mastery: Experience with event-driven architecture, real-time data processing, and making clear technical decisions under ambiguity.
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Strategic Partnership: A track record of working effectively with Product and stakeholders at all levels to balance performance, reliability, and cost.
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Pragmatic Problem Solving: The ability to move comfortably between high-level organizational strategy and low-level technical detail.
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Clear Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex trade-offs clearly without relying on others to define the direction.
Desired Qualifications & Competencies:
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Scaling Experience: You’ve personally designed systems that needed to scale—and you have seen exactly where they break.
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Conflict Resolution: You have challenged engineers or stakeholders when necessary and can articulate the technical or business reasoning behind it.
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Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
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Agile & Lean Mastery: Practical experience driving efficiency using Agile principles and modern engineering practices (TDD, CI/CD, DDD).
UK Benefits & Perks
- 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
- 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
- Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
- Regular company events and activities
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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