A senior engineering leadership role in the Music Technology sector — focused on consumer and B2B audio platforms, streaming, interactive audio experiences, and music production tools. The role leads cross-functional engineering teams to deliver low-latency, scalable audio services and innovative music products for global audiences. Primary Title: Head of Engineering Role & Responsibilities Define and own the engineering roadmap for music products — align architecture, delivery timelines, and quality targets with product and commercial strategy. Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams across backend, platform, and audio-engineering disciplines; hire senior technical talent and set organisational structure. Architect and deliver scalable, low-latency audio systems and real-time streaming infrastructure to support live, on-demand, and collaborative use-cases. Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices (microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD) and observability to ensure reliability and measurable SLAs for audio pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and data science to prioritise experiments, A/B tests, and performance targets that increase engagement and retention. Establish engineering-excellence playbooks — code quality, automated testing, security standards, and incident response for 24/7 audio services. Skills & Qualifications Must-Have Audio Signal Processing Real-time Audio Streaming Low-latency Systems Distributed Systems Architecture Microservices Kubernetes AWS CI/CD Preferred Apache Kafka Rust Digital Audio Workstation Integration Benefits & Culture Highlights Hybrid work model with focused on engineering autonomy, craft, and measurable impact. Opportunity to shape flagship music products used by musicians, creators, and millions of listeners globally. Competitive compensation, learning budgets, and leadership development for senior technical leaders. Skills: apache kafka,adoption,leadership,cd,architecture,rust,kubernetes,apache,ci,microservices,aws,teams