Head of Engineering (Volunteer)

Solution Community is an international nonprofit building a global platform for social change. They are seeking a Head of Engineering to lead and support their engineering function, ensuring technical execution quality across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all engineering contributors across frontend, backend, infrastructure, security, quality assurance, and DevOps
• Own architectural decisions and ensure systems are scalable, secure, and maintainable
• Review Pull Requests in GitHub, maintain high standards, and enforce clean engineering practices
• Identify bottlenecks, remove blockers, and drive engineering velocity without bureaucracy
• Align closely with Product (CPO) to translate roadmap into realistic technical execution
• Ensure proper Git workflows, CI standards, testing discipline, and infrastructure reliability
• Raise the team's technical level through feedback, pairing, and structured reviews
• Oversee architecture decisions involving Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, and related infrastructure systems

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Proven experience building or scaling products in startup or early-stage environments
• Not purely a corporate enterprise background
• Strong system design and architecture experience
• Comfortable reviewing complex code across frontend and backend
• Deep understanding of modern web architecture and cloud infrastructure
• Action-oriented
• Comfortable making decisions and owning outcomes
• Will step in when something is stuck
• Engineers respect you because you understand the work
• You raise standards without ego
• You collaborate well with Product and executive leadership
• Motivated by impact
• Comfortable working in a nonprofit, volunteer-driven environment
• Experience leading distributed, remote engineering teams
• Experience building MVPs from scratch
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native systems
• Experience working closely with founders or CEOs