Head of Engineering

Role Overview

• Scale engineering culture – Build and lead an org that operates at extreme velocity.
• Own architecture decisions – Balance speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Spec product work – Work directly with the CTO, founders, and product leads to scope, prioritize, and ship.
• Manage velocity – Remove bottlenecks, shorten iteration cycles, and accelerate shipping.
• Grow the team – Attract and level up world-class engineers who thrive in this environment.

Requirements

• Consumer product experience – Built and scaled consumer-facing apps with taste and user obsession.
• Startup leadership – Been through 0→1 and 1→100 at a high-growth consumer company.
• Engineering leadership – Scaled beyond the founding team without losing velocity.
• Technical depth – Strong coding background, comfortable reviewing and making architecture calls.
• Velocity mindset – Moves at an extreme pace, unblocks, parallelizes, and accelerates work.
• Based in San Francisco – Thrives in a fast-moving, in-person culture.

Benefits

• Top percentile salary.
• Top percentile equity ownership – this is one of the most important hires to unlock speed at Superpower.