Summary
Claire Mitchell is an engineering manager in London with 11 years’ experience building customer-focused web products, currently leading two payments teams at Zopa. She combines hands-on JavaScript and Node expertise with product-oriented leadership, having previously led front-end delivery and people management at Prolific and shipped growth and restaurant-facing features at Deliveroo. Claire co-founded and organised Node Girls, running free JavaScript workshops to increase diversity in tech, and has a track record of mentoring and hiring engineers. Comfortable across stacks—React, Vue, Node and occasional Scala, Go and Ruby—she excels at turning roadmap goals into delightful user experiences. An Oxford-trained engineer, she brings rigorous technical judgment from early civil/structural engineering internships through to modern fintech systems. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic, product-minded manager who still enjoys shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Engineering Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Engineering Science at University of Oxford
English, French