Head of Engineering

## Head of Engineering
** Atl,GA30305
** Posted: 10/09/2026

Employment Type:

Fractional Recruiting Industry: Information Technology Job Number: 18124

Field of Expertise:
Customer Support Remote Friendly:
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Job Description Our client, a leader in fraud prevention within residential real estate, is seeking a Head of Engineering for a fantastic direct hire role located in Atlanta, Georgia.

The role Engineering has been run by the CTO since the beginning. That worked while the team was small and the roadmap was one product. It doesn't scale to three products, a growing onshore team, and institutional customers whose security reviews and delivery expectations are now a real part of how we win business.
This role takes operational ownership of engineering so the CTO can focus on product direction, partnerships, and the company's technical strategy. You'd own the team, the delivery, and the outcomes — and you'd build out our onshore engineering team in Atlanta, which is the biggest structural change ahead of us.
To be direct about what that means: you are not being hired to be the best engineer in the room. You need to read our codebase, hold a credible architecture conversation, and know when a technical answer doesn't add up. But the job is building a team that ships reliably — not personally shipping.
What you'd own
** Building the onshore team in Atlanta.
** Our engineering team today is distributed, with most of it offshore. We're building an onshore presence in Atlanta, and growing that team is a core part of this role — not a downstream consequence of it. You'd define what those roles are, hire into them, and build a team culture in our headquarters city that the rest of the organization can work alongside in real time.

** The team overall.
** You own hiring end to end — sourcing, interview design, calibrating a bar across interviewers, and closing candidates. You own performance: setting expectations, giving hard feedback, running a plan when someone's off track, and making the call when it isn't working. You own leveling, comp bands, and promotion criteria. You own career growth and retention for engineers who sit twelve hours away, which is a genuinely different skill from managing people down the hall.

** Delivery.
** You're accountable for the team shipping predictably. Capacity planning, sequencing, and saying no to things. Committing to dates in front of customers and the board, and being right often enough that the next commitment is believed. Owning incident response end to end - the response, the customer communication, and the postmortem.

** Partnership with the business.
** Our sales and customer success teams create real commercial pressure on the roadmap. You translate that into engineering plans, and you push back credibly when what's being asked for doesn't fit. That relationship working well is a large part of whether this role succeeds.

** The operating budget.
** Cloud spend, tooling, contractors, vendor negotiation. Real dollars against real constraints.  
** Org design.
** Team structure, the onshore and offshore balance, and the build-versus-buy calls that play out over eighteen to twenty-four months rather than a sprint.

** Security and compliance.
** SOC 2, security questionnaires from institutional buyers, vendor reviews, insurance requirements. At our customer profile this is a revenue blocker, not a back-office function, and it needs an owner who treats it that way.

** Executive communication.
** Explaining engineering to people who don't do engineering — internally, to our board, and under investor technical diligence.
First 90 days
* Get deep enough in the systems and the team to have your own opinions rather than inherited ones
* Give us an honest read on the org: where we're…