Head of Engineering

We’re seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to join our small and growing team. This isn’t your typical EM role. We’re looking for a senior engineer who leads from the front and thrives in high-velocity, high-ownership environments . Your mission: build the fastest engineering team on the planet .

You’re a top-tier engineer with proven leadership experience in fast-moving startups or scaleups . You’re comfortable making imperfect decisions quickly, you’ve built products under pressure, and you know that momentum beats perfection .

• A seasoned engineer who has already stepped into an EM role at a venture-backed startup
• An ex-founder who knows how to ship when the runway is short and the stakes are high
• A startup tech lead who thrives on ownership and bold decisions
• A pragmatic builder who values time-to-value over “the right way”

• Engineering leadership: You’ve coached and unblocked engineers in high-velocity, high-pressure environments.
• Deep technical expertise: You have strong architecture instincts and solid security knowledge, but you’ll cut through complexity to keep shipping.
• Startup DNA: You’ve shipped product in 0→1 or hyper-growth contexts where speed and ownership were survival skills.
• Velocity obsession: You believe iteration > perfection, and your instinct is always to get value in front of users as fast as possible.
• AI-first: You’re bullish on AI, vibe-coding daily, and always looking for ways to push velocity through AI-assisted workflows.
• DevX focus: You obsess over developer experience because you know great tooling = more speed.
• Execution focus: Monitoring, observability, and performance aren’t “nice to haves” — they’re how you ship fast without breaking trust.

• Set the bar for engineering velocity — coaching, mentoring, and unblocking the team every day
• Make architectural and security calls fast, balancing speed with long-term resilience
• Build and own best-in-class developer experience — tooling and workflows that eliminate drag
• Monitor and protect reliability and SLAs, while still moving at startup speed
• Partner tightly with product and design to deliver rapid, end-to-end iterations
• Establish a culture where iteration is celebrated and perfectionism is challenged

• We build in public. Open source means moving fast with shared context.
• We challenge problems, not people. No blame, just solutions.
• We’re highly collaborative. Independent, but we win as a team (and with our community).
• We bias hard toward impact. We’d rather ship the wrong thing quickly and learn, than waste weeks polishing what nobody needs.
• Primary: TypeScript, React, Node, SQL

⚡ We’re deliberately looking for ambitious leaders from startups and high-growth companies. If you want predictability, long roadmaps, and “the right way” over speed, this isn’t the role for you.

? Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the requirements. Even if you don’t tick every box, if you have startup experience and a hunger for velocity, we’d love to hear from you.