Head of Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own what ships, how fast, and how reliably - end-to-end accountability for engineering output on timelines the company stands behind
• Stay close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls and earn the team’s trust
• Make architectural decisions that build and protect the company’s competitive moat - UX, data modelling, and data centricity
• Get real velocity from AI tooling across the team - no AI slop, just measurable output
• Build and own the engineering operating system - code review, on-call, incident response, security
• Own the hiring bar and team size as the company grows selectively

• 7+ years as a strong IC engineer with recent leadership of distributed teams at an early-stage B2B startup
• Led a distributed engineering team of 5+ at an early-stage B2B startup
• Experience building user-facing products at the application layer with strong data modelling fluency
• Background in regulated industries (Gov Tech, Health Tech, Fin Tech), former founder/founding engineer, or data-centric product companies (Nice to have)
• Shipped production code in the last 6 months - this is not a purely managerial role
• Fluent across the stack - React, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
• Intellectual sparring partner - takes direct feedback and pushes back when genuinely disagreeing
• Low ego with a well-rounded perspective