Overview

Reapit is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. Weve been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience. Worldwide, over 78,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use Reapit to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time.

Reporting To VP Of Engineering

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and line-managing a regional engineering group (c.2025 engineers) across multiple squads, setting the tone for a high-performance, inclusive culture.
• Partnering with Product to align regional roadmaps to business goals and ensure squads are appropriately resourced against near- and longer-term priorities (624 months).
• Owning regional resource planning, hiring and development pathways, and embedding clear, skills-based progression and performance management.
• Driving modern engineering practices across SDLC, CI/CD and QA; championing automation, test-first thinking and always ship each cycle.
• Collaborating with Architecture, Security, DevOps and QA to deliver secure, well-architected services on a shared platform, while managing technical debt and legacy modernisation.
• Acting as principal point of escalation for key accounts and a trusted voice in the Regional Leadership Team and Product Council.
• Contributing to budget and capital allocation decisions, ensuring engineering investment aligns with business outcomes.

In This Capacity, Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Leading people operations (hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, reviews), ensuring timely HR ceremonies and strong pastoral care.
• Running skills assessments, identifying gaps, and enabling tailored upskilling and mentoring across levels from Junior to Principal.
• Structuring squads and BAU/elastic capacity models to balance roadmap delivery with strategic initiatives.
• Establishing and reporting on engineering metrics (e.g., DORA, test coverage, code quality, debt reduction) through Quarterly Tech Reviews.
• Championing a secure-by-design approach, data governance, and timely remediation of CVEs in partnership with the CISO team.
• Aligning toolchains and practices (One JIRA, GitHub Enterprise/GitHub Actions) to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Orchestrating incident response, coordinating the operational fix and stakeholder communications.
• Supporting GTM with technical insight to improve product marketing, sales enablement and customer outcomes.

Who we’re looking for

At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. While all the listed qualities are desirable, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them — we’d still like to hear from you.

• Proven senior software engineering leader, with multi-squad line management of ~2025 engineers across product delivery and operations.
• Strong technical background in an engineering discipline, ideally across the full stack we work in AWS, C# .NET, TypeScript, Node, React, Perl and Kotlin stacks.
• Track record partnering with Product to translate strategy into resourced, measurable delivery plans over 624 months.
• Deep people leadership: performance management, career pathways, mentoring and inclusive culture building.
• Expertise in modern SDLC and quality practices (testing pyramid, automation, CI/CD), with familiarity with GitHub Actions and enterprise toolchains.
• Strong grasp of secure software development, data governance and vulnerability management in collaboration with Security.
• Comfortable managing technical debt and guiding modernisation from legacy to scalable, cloud-based architectures.
• Confident stakeholder manager across senior internal leaders and strategic customers; calm, clear communicator under pressure.
• Commercial mindset: experience contributing to budgets and capital allocation against business outcomes.

What your impact and success looks like

Within 1 Month

• Build trust through 1:1s with engineers, leads and key partners (Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, Security); understand regional goals and current squad topology.
• Baseline delivery health (DORA, test coverage, incident posture, debt hotspots) and agree immediate focus areas.
• Confirm operating cadence (planning, reviews, QTR reporting) and always ship each cycle expectations.

Within 3 Months

• Implement rightsizing/re-allocation of squads and BAU/elastic capacity to de-risk roadmap delivery.
• Show measurable uplift in engagement, progression and mentoring participation across the team; have critical roles hired or backfilled.
• Launch a pragmatic modernisation plan (prioritised legacy sunsetting, debt reduction) with clear success metrics.
• Embed quality improvements (testing approach, automation) and strengthen CI/CD flow with DevOps and QA.
• Establish security SLAs for CVE remediation and regular reporting with CISO team.

Within 6 Months

• Demonstrably improve delivery predictability and quality (trend up in deployment frequency & lead time; trend down in change failure/MTTR).
• Hit key roadmap milestones while maintaining engineering standards and customer satisfaction for strategic accounts.
• Present clear outcomes through QTRs tying capital allocation to shipped value and platform improvements.

What’s in it for you?

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and there is no expectation around in-person attendance, beyond occasional ad-hoc project meetings in our Solihull or London offices. You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits.

Additional notes

Dont tick all the boxes? Neither do we. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and building an inclusive environment for all. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, while listening to all our employees. LNKD1_UKTJ

We’re not including extraneous job board references in the refined description.