Director of Engineering

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Job Description: Mission: Build and lead a small, exceptional, AI-native engineering organisation that turns real customer problems into scalable, reliable and cost-effective software — while developing the next generation of engineering leaders and continuously improving how Storyful ships. Why this role exists Software engineering is changing rapidly. Agentic development has removed many of the old constraints around writing code, but it has also shifted the bottlenecks into planning, verification, review, quality, security and decision-making. We want a leader who has already made that transition. You will lead an organisation of approximately 18 people through Tech, our QA Automation Lead, Infrastructure Lead and Principal Engineer. Your job is to create the conditions in which talented people do their best work: clear outcomes, strong technical judgement, high trust, low ego, fast feedback and just enough process. This is not a role for a manager who has moved away from engineering. You will lead from the front — coaching leaders, challenging architecture, joining incidents, reviewing code and occasionally prototyping or shipping with Claude when that is the highest-leverage…