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Head of Engineering
Accounting - Finance
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Remote / WFH
Job Description
Hey, I'm Ashish, the CTO and Co-Founder at HowNow, and I’m hiring! Before I tell you more about our role, here’s a bit more about us…
Our mission is to make meaningful learning a part of your everyday work!
The shelf life of our skills is now less than 5 years. So, if you stopped learning today, you’d soon end up irrelevant. Think that’s a big problem? You’d be right.
Enter HowNow. Founded in 2026, this is the problem our Learning Experience Platform is solving. It’s disrupting the way people learn and grow at work through technology. Whether it's finding a quick answer, building a skill, or tapping into shared knowledge, we make it easy for people to learn what they need, when they need it.
On the back of our Series-A funding, the next stage of our ambitious journey begins. Already used by fast-growing scale-ups and global enterprises, such as Checkout.com, Depop and Investec, we’re pushing the boundaries of how people learn.
As we embark on an exciting new phase of our growth journey, HowNow is looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to manage our motivated team of over 20, and lead them to deliver high-quality outcomes.
You will contribute to process improvement, technology advancement and responsibly growing our engineering team. You will work closely with other heads of departments, solution architects, product managers, and our CTO/founder.
Day-to-day tasks will include
You'll lead the team to successfully solve the top engineering challenges (e.g. transition to a fully horizontally scalable system, modularise system into micro-services for key components).
You'll enable decision-making on enterprise architecture and component-level software design all the way to timely build and delivery of our software platforms.
You'll lead the team to continuously ship product & engineering improvements every sprint in the most productive way possible.
You'll line-manage engineering teams (backend, frontend, QA, DevOps) and their team-leads, consisting of 25+ engineers.
You'll lead talent management including hiring, developing and retaining a world-class team
You'll build, communicate, and execute robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
You'll eliminate impactful, or widespread production incidents.
The key things that we will be looking for in applicants
You have around 15 years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ of those in similar leadership positions in a software product company
You have 4+ years of recent experience in building high-performance SaaS products
You must have managed designing and implementation of microservices architecture
You have succesful hands-on experience, scaling tech platforms from the ground up to large scale
You have experience in delivering low-low-latency, high-availability, and performant systems in a fast-paced agile environment.
You have 3+ years past experience as a hands-on engineer (developer, QA etc.)
You're a hands-on leader, visionary, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.
You've got excellent oral and written communication, organisational, time management skills.
You've had solid exposure to JavaScript, Ruby, Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
You have a Bachelor and/or Masters degree in technology,
What you’ll get:
A competitive salary and performance based bonus - let's have a chat about it.
A flexible approach to hybrid working (we're in 3x a week) and working hours
Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 11am - 7:30pm on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. A few ways our HowNow’ers use this time is to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends
️ Workcations. We try to get our Mumbai and UK teams together to brainstorm in person over a company retreat. We’ve previously met in Goa, Turkey, and Copenhagen
Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game
An annual £200 learning and development budget
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday day off
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
An enhanced employee pension scheme
Monthly socials, which have included mini-golf, Hijingo, shuffleboarding, 5-a-side football and Badminton
Dog friendly offices
What's next?
Once you've applied, we'll get back in touch with you. This is usually within the next 3 working days. Sometimes it can take slightly longer, but we will get back to you as soon as we can, irregardless of what the outcome of your application is.
If we've decided it's a match, you'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Dom, our Senior Talent Partner.
After the initial call, if we're both interested in moving ahead, you'll be invited to meet with CTO & Co-Founder, Ashish for an hour so you can get to know each other, understand more about us and our product. Lastly, you'll meet with Ashish and Nelson (CEO and Co-Founder) for a final interview.
#li-hybrid
Our mission is to make meaningful learning a part of your everyday work!
The shelf life of our skills is now less than 5 years. So, if you stopped learning today, you’d soon end up irrelevant. Think that’s a big problem? You’d be right.
Enter HowNow. Founded in 2026, this is the problem our Learning Experience Platform is solving. It’s disrupting the way people learn and grow at work through technology. Whether it's finding a quick answer, building a skill, or tapping into shared knowledge, we make it easy for people to learn what they need, when they need it.
On the back of our Series-A funding, the next stage of our ambitious journey begins. Already used by fast-growing scale-ups and global enterprises, such as Checkout.com, Depop and Investec, we’re pushing the boundaries of how people learn.
As we embark on an exciting new phase of our growth journey, HowNow is looking for an experienced Head of Engineering to manage our motivated team of over 20, and lead them to deliver high-quality outcomes.
You will contribute to process improvement, technology advancement and responsibly growing our engineering team. You will work closely with other heads of departments, solution architects, product managers, and our CTO/founder.
Day-to-day tasks will include
You'll lead the team to successfully solve the top engineering challenges (e.g. transition to a fully horizontally scalable system, modularise system into micro-services for key components).
You'll enable decision-making on enterprise architecture and component-level software design all the way to timely build and delivery of our software platforms.
You'll lead the team to continuously ship product & engineering improvements every sprint in the most productive way possible.
You'll line-manage engineering teams (backend, frontend, QA, DevOps) and their team-leads, consisting of 25+ engineers.
You'll lead talent management including hiring, developing and retaining a world-class team
You'll build, communicate, and execute robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
You'll eliminate impactful, or widespread production incidents.
The key things that we will be looking for in applicants
You have around 15 years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ of those in similar leadership positions in a software product company
You have 4+ years of recent experience in building high-performance SaaS products
You must have managed designing and implementation of microservices architecture
You have succesful hands-on experience, scaling tech platforms from the ground up to large scale
You have experience in delivering low-low-latency, high-availability, and performant systems in a fast-paced agile environment.
You have 3+ years past experience as a hands-on engineer (developer, QA etc.)
You're a hands-on leader, visionary, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.
You've got excellent oral and written communication, organisational, time management skills.
You've had solid exposure to JavaScript, Ruby, Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes etc.
You have a Bachelor and/or Masters degree in technology,
What you’ll get:
A competitive salary and performance based bonus - let's have a chat about it.
A flexible approach to hybrid working (we're in 3x a week) and working hours
Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 11am - 7:30pm on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. A few ways our HowNow’ers use this time is to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends
️ Workcations. We try to get our Mumbai and UK teams together to brainstorm in person over a company retreat. We’ve previously met in Goa, Turkey, and Copenhagen
Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game
An annual £200 learning and development budget
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday day off
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
An enhanced employee pension scheme
Monthly socials, which have included mini-golf, Hijingo, shuffleboarding, 5-a-side football and Badminton
Dog friendly offices
What's next?
Once you've applied, we'll get back in touch with you. This is usually within the next 3 working days. Sometimes it can take slightly longer, but we will get back to you as soon as we can, irregardless of what the outcome of your application is.
If we've decided it's a match, you'll be invited to a 30-minute video call with Dom, our Senior Talent Partner.
After the initial call, if we're both interested in moving ahead, you'll be invited to meet with CTO & Co-Founder, Ashish for an hour so you can get to know each other, understand more about us and our product. Lastly, you'll meet with Ashish and Nelson (CEO and Co-Founder) for a final interview.
#li-hybrid
