Head of Technology and Engineering
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£86,000
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 1137 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 50% sure that is the right code. Rest Less UK is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
This could also be SOC 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals) or SOC 2132 (IT managers). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1137 Information technology directors Most likely code | £60,200 | £68,800 | £77,400 | £86,000 |
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Also possible | £38,300 | £43,700 | £49,200 | £54,700 |
2132 IT managers Also possible | £38,500 | £44,000 | £49,500 | £55,000 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
About us
Rest Less is a social impact business with a mission to help and inspire today’s generation of people over 50 get the most from life.
With over 1 million registered members across the UK, we bring together advice, inspiration and opportunities across work, money, travel, health, lifestyle and more. We also champion age-inclusivity and challenge outdated stereotypes of this large but chronically overlooked and under-represented audience.
Technology underpins how we serve our members and create value for our commercial partners. From helping people discover relevant content, jobs and holidays to delivering intelligent, personalised communications and measuring campaign performance, the quality of our platform directly affects our business.
We’re a small but talented team, with a large audience and plenty of scope for innovation. Joining as our most senior technology leader, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how we do that: working directly with the CEO, staying close to the engineering, and making decisions that have a visible impact on our members, partners and colleagues.
About you
You’re an experienced, well-rounded engineering leader who thrives in a small, fast-moving environment where you can have real ownership and visible impact. You enjoy setting technical direction, but you’re equally comfortable getting into the details and working alongside engineers to solve problems, make pragmatic decisions and keep delivery moving.
You combine strong technical judgement with a commercial mindset. You understand when to build, buy, improve or simplify, and you’re comfortable balancing reliability, security, scalability and cost against the needs of the business.
You’re a clear communicator and collaborative leader who can translate between technical and non-technical teams, explain trade-offs without unnecessary complexity, and bring structure and momentum to ambiguous problems. You care about building a strong engineering culture, developing people and creating technology that works well for both our members and the wider business.
The role
This is the most senior engineering role in the business, so you will report directly to the CEO. Your work will be visible, and you will have a real say in where we go next.
You will own our technology end to end: what we build, how it runs, what it costs and how secure it is. It is a hands-on role. You will lead our engineers, set the standards you build to together, and still be close enough to the code to review it, unblock it and write it when it counts.
You will turn commercial goals into technical plans, explain the trade-offs in plain language, and make sure the numbers our clients rely on are right.
Our platform
A modern, cloud-native platform on AWS that you can shape, not just maintain. It powers what we offer our audience and our partners:
- Content. Our website and the tools, articles and guides our audience comes to us for.
- Travel. Holidays and travel deals from our partners, gathered automatically and curated in-house.
- Jobs. Job listings and search, connecting our audience with employers.
- Partnerships and advertising. Campaigns for our brand partners, with tracking and monthly performance reporting that shows them the value they get.
Behind it sit our customer engagement platform, which drives the emails our audience receives, a data platform that keeps our reporting accurate, the internal tools our colleagues run the business with, and a cloud setup built on infrastructure as code, automated delivery and observability.
What you will do
- Set the direction. Own the architecture and technical roadmap. Decide what to build, buy, modernise or retire.
- Lead delivery. Plan the work, keep it moving, and stay hands-on in design, code review and implementation.
- Raise the bar. Set and evolve the engineering standards and practices we work to.
- Protect data quality. Be accountable for the accuracy of client reporting and the health of the pipelines behind it.
- Keep things running. Own reliability, monitoring, on-call and incident response.
- Facilitate integration of AI. Help to design the ways in which tech and the wider team are able to leverage AI capabilities and accelerate progress and innovation, ensuring that we do this in a way that maintains appropriate quality and security.
- Spend wisely. Own cloud and supplier costs, and find savings without cutting corners.
- Keep us secure. Own our security and compliance, including access management, penetration testing and Cyber Essentials.
- Manage suppliers. Look after our technology partners and renewals.
- Develop our engineers. Lead and mentor them, and hire when we need to.
- Partner with the business. Work with the CEO and colleagues across commercial, content and client work. Turn their ideas into well-scoped work, and keep everyone informed on progress and risks.
Our stack
Languages - TypeScript (Node.js), Python, PHP, SQL
Cloud - AWS: Lambda, ECS, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, SQS, EventBridge
Data - MySQL, PostgreSQL, S3, AWS Glue, Apache Iceberg, Athena, Airbyte
Search - Algolia, Google Talent Solution, Vertex
Customer engagement - Blueshift
Analytics and reporting - Metabase, Google Analytics
Monitoring and on-call - CloudWatch, Grafana, PagerDuty
Infrastructure and delivery - AWS CDK, Terraform, Cloudflare, Bitbucket Pipelines
Front end - React, WordPress
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you...
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Where this offer sits in the market
Information technology directors (SOC 1137) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~63k in sample- Middle half £71,656–119,860
- Median £93,236
- Going rate £86,000
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £60,200–77,400
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Not necessarily. Rest Less UK holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 1137 going rate of £86,000. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.