Key skills
Collaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Establish and continuously improve engineering best practices appropriate for our stage of company
- Set clear standards around code quality, reliability, security, documentation, and delivery
- Build lightweight but effective processes that enable speed without sacrificing quality
- Lead and grow a lean engineering organization
- Scale the team thoughtfully in line with company growth goals
- Hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers
- Balance internal hires and contractors to maximize efficiency and flexibility
- Create a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and execution
- Own the company’s technical strategy and long-term architecture
- Make key decisions on tech stack, infrastructure, and tooling
- Architect scalable, reliable systems that can grow with the business
- Lead execution on complex technical projects and unblock high-risk initiatives
- Ensure engineering decisions align with business priorities and product roadmap
- Be accountable for delivering high-quality technology that supports product and platform goals
- Track engineering output and progress across teams, ensuring work is visible and measurable
- Align closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to set clear expectations and timelines
- Ensure projects ship on time, with the right level of quality, scope, and predictability
- Proactively identify risks, unblock teams, and course-correct when needed
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment
- Strong technical background with the ability to be hands-on when needed
- Demonstrated ability to scale teams and systems in a lean, pragmatic way
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- able to make sound decisions and keep teams moving forward without perfect information
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality, delivery, and outcomes
- Experience introducing structure and process that improves execution without becoming cumbersome
- Ability to track output across teams and create clarity around priorities, timelines, and expectations
- Excellent communicator who can align engineering work with product and business goals
- Experience managing engineering contractors and vendor relationships
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Opportunity to build and lead growth at a fast-growing consumer company