Our Mission
TalentMapper was founded with a mission to improve talent management, removing traditional barriers to career growth and development and unleash the potential of all people in the workplace, so they can achieve extraordinary results.
Your Profile
TalentMapper is seeking an experienced and visionary lead for our engineering function. As our technical leader, you will be a strategic partner to the Director of Product & Technology and CEO, responsible for defining the technical vision, managing our development team, and being a hands-on contributor to our platform. This role requires a balance of leadership, deep technical expertise, and a passion for building both great products and a great engineering culture.
Values Profile:
All team members must have a personal commitment to unleashing potential in our society by aligning their behaviours to our values:
- Be innovative – seek and welcome new approaches to everyday tasks and behaviours
- Be inclusive – understand, respect, and respond to the intersectional needs of our team and our clients
- Challenge the status quo – question and evaluate existing structures and processes
- Remove barriers – focus on efficiency and performance by eradicating bias and exclusive processes
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Lead and Manage Engineering: Take full ownership of our development team, ensuring they are effective, accountable, and aligned with our product roadmap.
- Be a Hands-On Leader: While strategic, you will be expected to contribute to the codebase, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance to the team.
- Architect for the Future: Design and oversee a scalable, secure, and reliable system architecture, making key decisions on technology and infrastructure.
- Build a Strong Partnership: Forge a strong, collaborative relationship with our Chief Product Officer, translating product vision into a deliverable technical strategy.
Experience Required
- Previous industry experience in a leadership role (e.g., Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or previous Head of Technology) with a background in hands-on development.
- Proven experience leading technical projects and managing developers (in-house or outsourced).
- Deep understanding of cloud environments (GCP preferred, but expertise in any major cloud provider is welcome) and SaaS platforms.
- Well-versed in Python, Django and Databases that includes PostgreSQL, Mongo, Neo4j.
- Experience designing and building scalable systems, ideally with microservice architectures.
- Proven ability to create clear technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and strategic roadmaps.
Skills Required
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the bigger picture and make technical decisions that support long-term business goals.
- Leadership & Mentoring: A passion for leading teams and helping other engineers grow.
- Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels, from developers Customer and with the CSuite..
- Problem-Solving: Excellent ability to diagnose complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.
- Pragmatism: An understanding of the trade-offs required in a startup environment, balancing speed with quality.
- Business Acumen: Ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
About us
TalentMapper was founded with a mission to improve talent management, removing traditional barriers to career growth and development and unleash the potential of all people in the workplace, so they can achieve extraordinary results.
It’s personal for us – most of our team have faced and overcome barriers (such as social mobility) in organisations, based on our backgrounds and we are determined to create change, helping those in our reach to achieve their potential.
So we provide an end to end, new SaaS platform for managing talent. We are specialists in all things talent management and we know that talent technology in the workplace is the key to creating highly successful organisations.
Our unique technology products, delivered by our team of industry leading experts, help organisations realise their investment in people by removing barriers and releasing potential at every stage of the talent management cycle.
TalentMapper is an inclusive employer and we’re fully committed to creating a great place to work, where everyone can be at their best every day; a workplace where everyone can be their true self and feel valued and understood for who they are and what makes them unique. Any behaviours that undermine that ethos will not be accepted and we operate a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of discrimination. While the Equality Act sets minimum standards for how people should be treated, we’re proud to always go beyond our legal obligations to ensure that your well-being and engagement is top of our agenda, regardless of your background.
