Responsibilities
Strategic
- Own technology vision and strategy; make high-impact decisions on platforms, architecture, and infrastructure that balance rapid development with long-term scalability
- Translate business priorities into engineering execution; break down initiatives into technical deliverables and ensure successful delivery
- Partner with CEO on product roadmap and business strategy
- Champion adoption of new technologies and tools that unlock customer value or improve engineering productivity
Operational & Technical
- Write code and contribute to critical features, technical spikes, and complex problem-solving; remain deeply technical and set standards through example
- Establish engineering processes, standards, and best practices; implement CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and quality gates that enable rapid, safe delivery
- Ensure system reliability, security, and performance; implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
- Oversee infrastructure, DevOps, and technical operations; balance feature development against technical debt and infrastructure improvements
Team & Culture Leadership
- Build and scale the engineering team; own recruiting strategy and execution to attract exceptional talent
- Lead and develop engineers through 1-on-1s, performance feedback, and career development; coach technical skills, problem-solving, and ownership mindset
- Establish engineering culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer empathy that attracts top talent and scales with growth
- Establish an engineering culture of collaboration, accountability, and customer empathy that will scale as the team grows; ensure effective communication between engineering and other parts of the company
Requirements and Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Proven track record establishing engineering vision, practices, and processes in early-stage or high-growth environments; experience delivering complex products from concept to production
- Deep full-stack technical expertise including modern front-end (React, etc.) and back-end technologies (Node.js, Python, C#, etc.); ability to make sound architectural decisions across the entire stack
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), infrastructure-as-code, DevOps practices, scalable APIs (REST/GraphQL), distributed systems, databases, and CI/CD pipelines
- Exceptional communicator who articulates complex technical concepts to CEO, leadership team, and stakeholders; able to influence and drive alignment across the organization
- Demonstrated ability to build, coach, and develop high-performing teams; experience establishing strong engineering cultures
- Expert at evaluating technology options and articulating trade-offs; skilled at balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments
- Customer-focused mindset; ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints
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