Jobgether
Head of Engineering
TLDR
Lead and grow a hands-on engineering organization, shaping architecture, delivery, security, and AI-enabled acceleration for a fast-scaling SaaS platform.
Accountabilities
- Lead the engineering organization by defining technical direction, ensuring high performance, and maintaining strong delivery standards across all teams.
- Remain actively hands-on with software development (primarily TypeScript, Go, and related technologies), contributing to architecture and critical system design decisions.
- Own system architecture decisions and act as final decision-maker for technical trade-offs, scalability, and robustness.
- Build, mentor, and develop engineering teams, ensuring continuous growth of individual contributors into senior technical or leadership roles.
- Define and evolve engineering processes, standards, and best practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable software aligned with SLA, privacy, and compliance requirements.
- Drive hiring strategy, define team structure, and recruit top engineering talent in collaboration with People teams.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on speed, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with executive leadership (CEO, Product, CISO, Customer Success) to align technical execution with business and customer priorities.
- Oversee application security, infrastructure reliability, and compliance readiness in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify technical opportunities for innovation, automation, and AI-driven engineering acceleration.
- Manage engineering costs, tooling decisions, and external vendor relationships to ensure operational efficiency.
- Participate in key customer and technical discussions when required to support product direction and solution design.
- Lead AI adoption strategy within engineering to improve development velocity and automation.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including multiple years in technical leadership or engineering management roles.
- Strong hands-on development experience across full-stack systems, ideally with TypeScript, Go, or similar modern programming languages.
- Proven track record of building and scaling end-to-end software products, ideally in SaaS or platform environments.
- Deep understanding of system architecture, APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), and distributed systems.
- Experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced, product-driven environments with a strong delivery focus.
- Demonstrated ability to remain hands-on technically while leading and mentoring teams.
- Strong experience in hiring, structuring, and developing high-performing engineering organizations.
- Solid understanding of security, privacy, compliance, and operational excellence in production systems.
- Strong product and customer orientation, with experience collaborating directly with stakeholders or clients.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, execution-focused mindset.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, scalability challenges, and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in remote, distributed teams and fast-changing startup environments.
- Experience with AI-driven engineering practices, automation, or developer productivity tooling is a strong plus.
- Fully remote position with global flexibility.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Choice of preferred work hardware.
- Discretionary paid time off for rest and personal balance.
- Access to healthcare benefits depending on location.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, cutting-edge technical challenges.
- Strong focus on engineering autonomy, ownership, and innovation.
- Team retreats and international offsites.
- Supportive, high-performance culture with strong emphasis on learning and growth.
- Opportunity to shape the engineering organization and product at a foundational level.
Requirements
Benefits
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
Opportunity to work on high-impact, cutting-edge technical challenges.
Flexible Work Hours
Choice of preferred work hardware.
Health Insurance
Access to healthcare benefits depending on location.
Learning Budget
Supportive, high-performance culture with strong emphasis on learning and growth.
engineering and product shaping opportunity
Opportunity to shape the engineering organization and product at a foundational level.
Paid Time Off
Discretionary paid time off for rest and personal balance.
Remote-Friendly
Fully remote position with global flexibility.
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
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