Head of Engineering

AI is increasingly making decisions that shape people's lives, and there is still no reliable way to know which systems deserve trust. Warden is building that trust infrastructure: the independent testing, standards and certification that let organizations demonstrate their AI is fair and compliant.

We started where the stakes are most personal: who gets hired. Today we audit AI hiring and HR systems for bias and compliance, working with more than 60 HR Tech vendors including leading platforms like Greenhouse and Ashby, alongside a growing number of staffing firms and enterprise employers. In just a few years we have become the de facto standard in the category.

We are ten people, doubling in revenue every six months, with net revenue retention of 130%+, and deliberately profitable-minded rather than growth-at-all-costs.

Our engineering team is a small group of senior engineers who build everything from the pipelines that run our audits to the dashboards and reports customers rely on. Those audits carry weight with regulators, courts and enterprise buyers, so the systems behind them must be reliable and secure, and their results defensible.

As Head of Engineering, you'll lead and manage the team day to day, own engineering end to end, from architecture and delivery to security, and represent engineering to customers and auditors. It's a player-coach role, split roughly evenly between building and leading. You'll write production code yourself, and you'll also shape designs, hold a high bar in code review, and coach engineers through hard problems rather than solving them for them.

Beyond running the team, you'll shape how it works, at a time when AI is changing how software gets built. We're looking for someone with the ambition to rethink what engineering looks like at Warden, so the team's capability keeps pace with both a fast-growing business and what AI makes possible.

• Spend around half your time writing production code, from our audit pipelines to the platform and infrastructure behind them
• Prototype new tooling and AI workflows yourself before rolling them out to the team
• Take on work that unblocks the team, while keeping yourself off the critical path

• Lead architecture decisions with the team, and own how the platform evolves as a whole
• Keep our platform and infrastructure reliable, secure and scalable, and own incident response
• Hold a high bar for quality, so our audit results are reproducible and defensible

• Work with company leadership on a realistic roadmap, balancing new features against platform investment and technical debt
• Lead day-to-day delivery, coordinating closely with our data and audit operations teams
• Give company leadership clear visibility into progress, risks and trade-offs

• Manage and develop every engineer, and shape the team's culture
• Lead engineering hiring, from defining roles and setting the bar to running interviews
• Grow the team's impact by rethinking its processes and tooling as AI changes what's possible

• Lead our ISMS and certification work, including our ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II audits
• Ensure our systems and engineering practices meet our regulatory and contractual obligations, from privacy and security to how we use AI
• Represent engineering in customers' security reviews and due diligence

• You understand our platform and how our audits work well enough to lead customer onboardings end to end
• You've shipped code to production and taken a high-impact architecture decision from proposal to implementation with the team
• You're the first point of contact for engineering and…