Phoenix Global Search

  • London, UK
Oct 07, 2026
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Phoenix Global Search London, UK
VP of Engineering: Java Open-Source Data Infrastructure Package: 175k - 217k base + 15% bonus + options Location: UK remote-first. My client, a profitable, Series-D software company (circa 110 people, $40-45M ARR) behind one of the most widely-used open-source real-time data platforms in the world are looking for a VP of Engineering with a strong technical / Engineering background (ideally in Java). The person will own the engineering direction and execution. It's the top engineering seat: 40 engineers, 3 engineering managers reporting in to you, Person Specification: You're an architect-leaning technical leader who can run a bigger organisation. Technical depth is your anchor you've never traded it for scope. You can still name the domain you're genuinely excellent at, unprompted, three levels deep: distributed systems, low-latency engineering, JVM performance, stream processing, or storage and replication internals. You've probably written or...