Head of Engineering

We’ve been helping businesses grow for 35 years. It’s a journey we know well. When Radius started in 1990, we ran a successful SME fuel business in North West England. Today we are a global business services company running in 19 countries across five continents.

Our mission is to help companies of all sizes adapt to market changes and take advantage of the opportunities they bring.

We are differentiated through our ability to provide fleet and connectivity related products and services in a one-stop shop solution to SMEs, as well as tailored solutions to enterprise level businesses.

Our Telematics division is one of the fastest growing areas of the business, driven by innovation, scale, and a relentless focus on customer value.

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to lead several high performing telematics technology teams as we continue to scale our global platforms.

This is a critical leadership role with significant influence across our connected camera and fleet tracking products.

Reporting to our Telematics CTO, your responsibilities will include engineering strategy, platform health, DevOps maturity, architecture evolution, and people leadership.

You’ll also play a key role in consolidating and integrating acquired businesses to support our long term growth and reduce cost to serve.

This is an office based role at our state of the art Telematics head office in Arden Square, Crewe.

We have ambitious growth plans, backed by a history of rapid growth, so your impact in this role will be rewarded with genuine career progression possibilities.

What you'll be doing...

• Leading multiple technical teams, taking overall accountability for the effectiveness and well-being of team members.
• Support the assessment, definition and roll out of development practices/processes aligned with industry best practice, ensuring their adherence in order to deliver efficient change.
• Proactively ensure the health of the platforms, identifying and addressing technical debt
• Monitor and manage key performance indicators, ensuring team delivery excellence and addressing any issues effectively
• Leading the DevOps strategy for telematics and implementing infrastructure automation to deliver faster, more efficient, scalable platforms.
• Working with the Telematics CTO to understand and contribute to the vision and strategy for the telematics division and aligning your teams and their activities to this vision.
• Working with Product to understand customer needs on specific features and ensuring development teams are delivering to these needs aligned to the defined roadmap and strategy
• Implementing and maintaining financial governance measures.
• Working with Architects to define, improve and evolve the architecture of the group systems.
• Assisting Development Managers and our Talent Acquisition team in recruiting and retaining the best talent.
• Engaging with suppliers, outsource partners and other vendors to maintain relationships, enhance our product offering and improve our ability to execute.
• Alongside Delivery Management and Product, measuring and managing capacity and building roadmaps to deliver maximum value for customers with this capacity.

What we're looking for...

• A proven track record in building and leading innovative, high performing engineering teams.
• Experience managing large development teams, leveraging agile development methodologies
• Experience managing highly distributed organisations and working with multiple cultures.
• Experience managing 3rd party suppliers, including offshore.
• A degree in a technical field, ideally computer science or software engineering.  
• A solid technical background with experience of one or more of our core stack - Java, Typescript, NodeJS - and modern web UI frameworks
• Significant experience building and managing SaaS platforms at scale on containerised cloud platforms, preferably AWS, leveraging CI/CD and DevOps practices to deliver quality with pace
• Experience of a product-centric approach to delivery
• Experience with cybersecurity and data privacy and be able to implement security measures to protect software and data.
• Strong architectural awareness, with experience of large-scale refactoring and architectural transformation.
• A deep understanding and belief in best practice and its importance for delivering good products that last.
• A positive, servant-leader mindset, leading teams as a coach and someone who asks the right questions to challenge.

What you can expect from us...

This is a high impact, high potential opportunity, through which you can develop and progress your career in many directions.

In addition to a competitive base salary, you'll have access to a reward and benefits package which includes:

• Performance-based annual bonus
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Employee fuel card scheme (after 6 months)
• Electric Vehicle scheme (after 12 months)
• Employee assistance programme
• Wellness and healthcare assistance via ‘Help@Hand’ by Unum
• ‘Cycle to work’ scheme
• Free breakfast daily in the office
• Free gym access at nearby Radius Campus head office

And of course, you will be part of a modern purpose-built space in Crewe that will provide you with an outstanding working environment complete with café, barista, pizzeria, roof top bar, and more!

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Diversity, Equality & Inclusion at Radius

Our global DEI networks champion LGBTQ+ inclusion, cultural diversity, women’s empowerment and mental health, neurodiversity and disability support.

We also offer:

• Global Female Health Policy & Female Health Champions
• Pregnancy Loss and Fertility Treatment Policies
• Endometriosis Friendly Employer (UK)
• Women-focused gym & female health events
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Disability Confident Committed Employer (Level 1)
• Race at Work Charter signatory
• Proud sponsor of Crewe Pride (4 years running) and Cheshire Pride Awards Corporate Supporter 2025
• Community network driving charity and volunteering initiatives, with 8 consecutive years of participation in the UK Challenge.
• Give as you earn scheme (payroll giving) and match funding

Next Steps

If you feel we are a good match for each other, you can apply online now!

If you’d like to understand more about the role or life at Radius before applying, then please contact our talent team via [email protected]

Radius is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage of the process, please let us know, and we will do our best to support you.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.