StoryToys
StoryToys
11 – 50 Employees
B2CEducationGaming
StoryToys develops educational apps for children that combine learning, play, and interactive storytelling. Its products use familiar characters and thoughtfully designed activities to encourage curiosity, creativity, confidence, and healthy digital habits. Founded in 2008, the company works across education, consumer apps, and gaming, and its award-winning applications have been installed more than 200 million times worldwide.

Interim Head of Engineering at StoryToys, Dublin Hybrid

Lead engineering strategy, delivery, security, and growth for StoryToys’ educational apps. Manage multiple teams while aligning technology decisions with business goals.

Description

  • Own engineering strategy in line with company objectives
  • Set long-term architecture direction and technology roadmaps
  • Define engineering standards, compliance requirements, and quality measures
  • Make technical decisions balancing delivery speed, quality, scalability, and risk
  • Develop engineering managers, principal engineers, and senior technical talent
  • Foster a collaborative, accountable culture of continuous learning
  • Oversee hiring, succession planning, and performance management
  • Direct execution and delivery across all engineering teams
  • Improve planning practices and roadmap predictability
  • Remove organisational barriers and increase developer velocity through performance data
  • Maintain scalable, resilient, and sustainable production systems
  • Set standards for code quality, testing, DevOps, and security infrastructure
  • Manage technical debt, optimisation initiatives, and platform health
  • Work with Product, Design, QA, and Production leaders to achieve business outcomes
  • Present complex technical issues as clear recommendations for executives
  • Apply technology insight and industry developments to shape company strategy
  • Assess emerging technologies for potential competitive advantage
  • Advance engineering practices, automation, and AI-supported workflows

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including 5 or more years in engineering leadership
  • Demonstrated success leading multiple engineering teams and managers
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, cloud platforms, DevOps, and current development practices
  • History of delivering complex products at scale
  • Experience defining engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and quality standards
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and strategic planning abilities
  • Experience overseeing budgets, hiring plans, and organisational development
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Background in gaming, digital products, or SaaS
  • Experience scaling organisations during periods of rapid growth
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools and platform modernisation
  • Experience managing distributed or international engineering teams

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