Engineering Director at Tessian (London, UK)

Engineering at Tessian

At Tessian, we're building the world’s first Human Layer Security platform. We’re making a difference by providing automatic, real-time protection against threats such as social engineering, human error, & data exfiltration, for people all around the world.

We’re looking for an experienced, technical Engineering Director to take charge of engineering management as we build out our platform and drive our ability to scale.

You’ll stop criminal threats and prevent embarrassing mistakes for millions of people. Our high-volume, low-latency backend systems power the whole product. From deploying data science models in production, to integrating with our front end, you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business.

Our mission critical product and high volumes of data mean you will have many challenging problems to solve. You’ll be surrounded by incredibly smart, talented and friendly colleagues. Engineers at Tessian love to learn from each other and pull together as a team to succeed. We all have a say in what we build and how we build it and you will be empowered - and encouraged - to have an opinion. We know that we do our best work and have the most fun as a diverse team that represents our users and the world we live in.

We work hard to develop our incredible Tessians and ensure that the Engineering team is a fantastic place to work for every gender, ethnicity, age, race, sexual orientation and educational background.

We also seek diversity of experience: some of our engineers have been building distributed backend systems in Python for years, and some have learned the ins and outs of Python on the job.

Read more about Engineering at Tessian: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1670277/Life%20as%20a%20Tessianeer.pdf

Tessian Stack Overflow profile

Safely migrating millions of API requests

Our First Growth Framework

Why Diversity and Inclusion is important to us

As a Tessian Engineering Director you will:

• Be responsible for the success of all Engineering Managers at Tessian


• Support your team’s personal growth and help them to achieve their career goals


• Lead engineering wide initiatives focusing on scaling the team


• Support tech leads with architecture, infrastructure plans and design process


• Work closely with our Talent team to hire world class engineers

We'd love to meet someone who:

• Is experienced managing other Engineering Managers


• Believes that the best engineering teams are diverseIs excited to mentor, coach and grow teams, engineers and managers


• Is a great problem solver who takes pride in their work


• Values getting things done over getting things perfect


• Is comfortable with the unknown and loves to experiment


• Can construct good arguments for methodologies or practices

Why we think you'll love it here .... It’s important to us that all Tessians are part of the journey we’re on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark to provide above market rate salaries - there’s plenty more too…. Be at your best, both inside and outside of work

• 25 days of paid holiday (plus 8 bank holidays, and an additional day for every year you've worked at Tessian!)


• Private health insurance provided through Vitality Health and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program


• Classpass - subsided access to gym time and classes all across London


• Choice First: Do your best work, in the way that works best for you


• Flexible working hours and working from home (if you're not already remote!)


• Work-from-home subsidy upon joining, so you can kit out your home office


• Enhanced pension contributions, matched up to 5%


• We’re family friendly, with policies built to support you in all stages of life


• High-quality tech kit provided for you to work on, plus Tessian ANC headphones


• If you're relocating to join the team, we'll provide a contribution to help with your costs

Equality & diversity

Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we're securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here. As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we're also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM & we're a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups. Tessian is one of the Top-3 2021 Best Places to Work for Women. #humanfirst ‍‍