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The Role
Lead a 17-person engineering organization for HiBob’s Talent Acquisition domain, managing multiple teams and engineering managers. Define technical strategy, guide architecture, own delivery, develop leadership talent, and partner with Product and global R&D teams. Drive scalable backend and infrastructure decisions, cross-team alignment, developer effectiveness, AI tooling adoption, system reliability, and organizational growth. Serve as the senior leader at the Zagreb site, supporting local coordination and operational needs.
Summary Generated by Built In
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers everything they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Thousands of growing and multinational companies around the world rely on Bob to help them create better work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Group Lead to lead the engineering organization behind HiBob’s Talent Acquisition domain.
This is a significant engineering leadership role, leading a group of approximately 17 people across multiple teams, with seven direct reports. In addition to your responsibilities as Group Lead, you will serve as the most senior leader at our Zagreb site, providing local leadership and supporting site coordination and occasional operational needs.
You’ll be responsible for the group’s engineering direction, execution, and people leadership, working closely with Product and other R&D leaders to evolve and scale our Talent capabilities.
We’re looking for a leader who combines strong people leadership with technical and architectural depth - someone who can develop leaders, drive execution across multiple teams, and connect long-term technical direction with immediate product and business impact.
Job requirements
Job responsibilities
Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive Total Reward offer including:
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Thousands of growing and multinational companies around the world rely on Bob to help them create better work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Group Lead to lead the engineering organization behind HiBob’s Talent Acquisition domain.
This is a significant engineering leadership role, leading a group of approximately 17 people across multiple teams, with seven direct reports. In addition to your responsibilities as Group Lead, you will serve as the most senior leader at our Zagreb site, providing local leadership and supporting site coordination and occasional operational needs.
You’ll be responsible for the group’s engineering direction, execution, and people leadership, working closely with Product and other R&D leaders to evolve and scale our Talent capabilities.
We’re looking for a leader who combines strong people leadership with technical and architectural depth - someone who can develop leaders, drive execution across multiple teams, and connect long-term technical direction with immediate product and business impact.
Job requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Group Lead or equivalent, leading multiple engineering teams and managers in a fast-paced SaaS or platform company.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong hands-on technical foundation.
- 5+ years of people-management experience, with a proven track record of developing engineering managers, technical leaders, and high-performing teams.
- Experience with AI-driven development practices, tooling, or agentic technologies.
- Proven experience owning and scaling a significant product, module, or technical domain in a SaaS environment.
- Experience leading engineering organizations through scale-up, with deep expertise in scalable systems, backend services, and infrastructure, and the ability to assess trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and guide long-term architectural decisions.
- A strategic mindset - able to connect long-term architectural direction with immediate product and business impact.
- Excellent people leadership skills - you inspire trust, develop talent, and lead through influence and context, not control.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to drive alignment across distributed, global teams.
- Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.
- Experience operating in complex environments with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.
- Experience in HR tech, fintech, or other complex information-system environments.
- Strong experience with backend services, distributed systems, or data-intensive products.
- Experience contributing to engineering site leadership or working with external engineering vendors.
- Experience providing senior leadership at a local site, with the ability to guide teams, support site coordination, and take ownership of occasional operational needs.
Job responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical vision for the Talent Acquisition group, ensuring the domain can continue to scale as part of HiBob’s broader platform and product ecosystem.
- Lead and mentor multiple engineering leaders and teams, fostering growth, accountability, ownership, and technical excellence, while setting clear goals and KPIs to measure progress and drive continuous improvement.
- Own engineering delivery across the group, translating product and business priorities into clear technical and execution plans.
- Provide architectural leadership across the domain, guiding decisions on scalability, reliability, maintainability, infrastructure, and long-term technical evolution, and deliver high-level prototypes to validate concepts through proofs of concept (POCs) and beta testing.
- Partner closely with Product and other R&D leaders to shape the roadmap and ensure engineering strategy supports both customer needs and HiBob’s broader business objectives.
- Create alignment and clear ownership across multiple teams while identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies and technical challenges.
- Shape and grow the group - evolve its structure, recruit great talent, develop future leaders, and ensure teams have the right capabilities and ownership to succeed.
- Identify and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and senior individual contributors, building a strong leadership pipeline within the group.
- Collaborate across HiBob’s global R&D organization, driving alignment with Architecture, Platform, DevOps, and other engineering groups where needed.
- Collaborate with external companies, vendors, and suppliers to support the development of the group.
- Act as the most senior leader at our Zagreb site, providing local guidance and helping with site coordination and occasional operational matters.
- Champion engineering excellence through continuous improvements in developer effectiveness, AI tooling and practices, system stability, quality, and operational visibility.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health, ensuring teams can move quickly without compromising the scalability and maintainability of the product.
Location
This role follows a hybrid working model at our Zagreb site.
Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we’re especially proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you’ll receive competitive Total Reward offer including:
- Quarterly Balance Days to disconnect and recharge
- Birthday time off and a gift to celebrate
- Extra leave for your wedding
- Anniversary gifts and milestone celebrations
- Time off to give back through volunteering
- Work From Anywhere opportunities
- Paid baby bonding leave for growing families
- Mental wellbeing support through Headspace
- Employee assistance through Unmind
- Pension contributions to support your future
- Sick leave support when you need it
- Monthly meal allowance
- Employee Referral Program: $2,500 for each successful hire
If this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village 🚀
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience as a Group Lead or equivalent leading multiple engineering teams and managers in a fast-paced SaaS or platform company
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong hands-on technical foundation
- 5+ years of people-management experience developing engineering managers, technical leaders, and high-performing teams
- Experience with AI-driven development practices, tooling, or agentic technologies
- Experience owning and scaling a significant product, module, or technical domain in a SaaS environment
- Experience leading engineering organizations through scale-up, with expertise in scalable systems, backend services, infrastructure, and architectural decision-making
- Strategic mindset connecting long-term architectural direction with immediate product and business impact
- Excellent people leadership skills, including developing talent and leading through influence and context
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across distributed, global teams
- Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures
- Experience operating in complex environments with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities
- Experience in HR tech, fintech, or other complex information-system environments
- Strong experience with backend services, distributed systems, or data-intensive products
- Experience contributing to engineering site leadership or working with external engineering vendors
- Experience providing senior leadership at a local site and supporting site coordination and operational needs
HiBob Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off policies are described as generous, combining standard PTO with company‑wide long‑weekend “Bob Balance Days,” a birthday day off, volunteer time, and recognition of local holidays. Extra rest days after quarter‑end and accessible sick leave further support work‑life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one and options that can keep employee costs low in some markets. Mental‑health resources and protections like life and disability insurance add to the depth of the offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a U.S. 401(k) available immediately with employer matching and immediate vesting, alongside pension support noted in some regions. These features signal meaningful long‑term financial support beyond base pay.
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The Company
What We Do
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 4000 midsize and multinational companies. Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Huel, What3words, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.
Why Work With Us
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that’s bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we’re waiting with open arms. Come join us.
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HiBob Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We love collaborating and connecting with our team members in person and we hope you do too. Our team spends 2-3 days per week in our NYC office.
Typical time on-site:
2 days a week
