Head of Engineering

🌍 London, Hybrid

⭐️ Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Head of Engineering at SO ENERGY

Reporting into our Director of Technology Muhammad Khan👋, we’re looking for a Head of Engineering to join the team.

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to shape, scale, and evolve our technology function as we grow our customer base. Reporting into the Director of Technology, you'll lead our engineering teams across multiple squads, champion best practice, and help create the culture, systems, and delivery foundations needed for sustainable scale.

You’ll bring day-to-day clarity, unblock delivery teams, and coach our Tech Leads and Engineers directly, combining strategic thinking with operational involvement.

You’ll be joining at a pivotal time. We’re scaling our platform to support growth, improve resilience, and enable faster product innovation. With AI and automation increasingly at the heart of how we work, from streamlining operations to enhancing customer experience, you will help ensure that AI is applied thoughtfully, ethically and effectively.

You’ll play a key role in setting architectural direction, partnering closely with Product, Operations and Commercial to make sure we're solving the right problems in the right way and delivering outcomes that matter to our customers.

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Own and drive the engineering strategy, in partnership with the Director of Technology.

• Lead a multi-disciplinary group of squads, including frontend, backend, and UX engineers, through a team of Tech Leads.

• Raise the bar on engineering maturity across quality, reliability, security, observability, and scalability.

• Provide operational support for delivery, unblock teams, track throughput, and embed agile rituals that drive consistent value delivery.

• Help adoption of AI-augmented development tools and automation (e.g. code generation, intelligent alerting, test coverage tooling) to increase productivity and resilience.

• Define and track success metrics across engineering, including DORA metrics and AI-driven velocity improvements.

• Build the culture: create a high performing, empowered, and inclusive engineering organisation.

• Partner with Product and Business to ensure we’re solving the right problems, with a clear sense of value and feasibility.

• Provide technical direction and oversight on key architecture, integration and platform decisions.

• Coach and develop our Tech Leads and Engineers, supporting career growth and succession planning.

• Participate in squad-level standups, planning and retros to model effective delivery habits and build trust across levels.

• Represent Engineering in leadership forums, contributing to our broader digital transformation.

This role will be a great fit if:

• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams in a scale-up or high-growth environment.

• Strong technical background able to challenge, support and coach on architecture and delivery decisions.

• A strategic mindset with the ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term vision.

• Collaborative and open, with a strong belief in cross-functional delivery and empowered teams.

• Experience working in a product-led environment, partnering with Product Managers, Designers and Business Stakeholders.

• A systems thinker: able to navigate technical, organisational, and human systems to create long-term value.

• Practical experience applying AI in engineering workflows, and a clear stance on ethical and responsible AI usage.

• Commitment to sustainability in tech, designing architectures and practices that are resilient and environmentally conscious.

• Passion for sustainability and a drive to build products and teams that make a meaningful impact.

Our stack

• GCP & AWS

• Kotlin, Vue.js, JavaScript

• CI/CD pipelines, microservices, modern testing practices

• We don’t expect you to be hands-on, but you should be comfortable engaging in conversations about modern cloud-native platforms and delivery models.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1. Talent Acquisition Screen (30 mins)
2. Hiring Manager Interview (45mins)
3. Technical & Competency assessment (60 mins)
4. Culture Interview (45 mins)

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.