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Vestd

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

Vestd is a platform offering share schemes and equity management solutions tailored for startups, scaleups, and established companies in the UK. It integrates directly with Companies House, providing real-time, accurate data management for company incorporations, funding rounds, and equity distribution. Vestd simplifies the management of employee share schemes, cap tables, and shareholder communications, contributing to a streamlined process for founders, investors, and accountants.

📋 Description

• Providing people leadership: line managing software engineers, supporting their development and progression, setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and handling performance concerns fairly and consistently • Delivery and team health: working with engineering and product leaders to monitor capacity, surface risks early, help teams remove blockers, and improve predictability without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy • Engineering management practice: developing and improving how engineering management works at Vestd, including onboarding, succession planning, retention and ways of working • Contributing directly to software development for approximately 20% to 40% of your time, including production software, internal tools, prototypes or technical improvements that solve real problems • Coaching engineers, contributing to technical decisions, and maintaining the standards you expect from others by staying close to the work

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record of designing, building, shipping and maintaining production software. • Recent, practical development experience and the ability to contribute effectively to a modern codebase today, not just historically. • Proven experience managing software engineers in a growing technology organisation. • Strong technical judgement and the credibility to coach engineers and challenge technical decisions constructively. • Experience handling difficult conversations, performance concerns and career development. • Pragmatic approach to process: introduces structure where it helps, avoids bureaucracy where it does not. • Familiarity with PHP and Laravel, or experience with a comparable backend framework and a genuine willingness to work comfortably in that environment. • Impeccable attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • You must be comfortable with working in a remote-first environment

🏖️ Benefits

• This job is remote-first, although attendance is required twice yearly at our in-person get-togethers • A flexible environment to help you achieve the best work/life balance • An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), of course! (After the qualifying period) • Monthly recognition scheme, where we celebrate our folk • Support with home working equipment* • A personal training and development budget to keep your career and professional growth on track • Private medical insurance (after the qualifying period) • Team retreats are held twice a year. They can include an overnight stay and focus on fun and team cohesion • Great team ethos, connect through regular team and company socials • 25 days annual leave plus one extra day per year of service (up to five days)