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Demonstrates extensive experience in engineering leadership, team growth, and AI feature development, with a strong focus on quality, performance management, and process improvement. Proven ability to build and implement hiring processes and maintain high standards in a fast-paced startup environment.
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Engineering LeadershipAI Feature DevelopmentTeam Growth and HiringProcess ImprovementPerformance Management
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringAI WorkflowsTesting AutomationCode ReviewDebuggingPerformance ReviewsFeature DevelopmentTeam OrganizationHiring ProcessesZero-Bug Standards
Soft Skills
Proactive CommunicationDirect FeedbackDifficult Conversations
Tools & Technologies
Claude CodeCursor
Certifications & Qualifications
ISO 27001SOC 2
Industry Keywords
B2B SaaSVC-Funded StartupEMEAMid-Market
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own engineering end-to-end, including technical decisions, pace, organization, and people leadership
- Work directly with the co-founder and CTO
- Ship a meaningful AI feature alongside the team during the first month
- Improve tooling, review, testing, work allocation, and development processes to reduce cycle time
- Start regular 1:1s with engineers focused on output, quality, and AI usage
- Take over engineering hiring and build a process that operates without founder oversight
- Decide team organization and which lead roles to hire or develop
- Run engineering organization and technical direction
- Improve testing automation, code and security review, and quality practices
- Own team structure, levels, performance reviews, hiring plan, managers, and tech leads
- Continue building with the team periodically to maintain hands-on understanding
- Drive AI adoption in engineering workflows and management processes
- Grow the engineering team from 8 engineers and 2 product designers toward approximately 16 within 12 months
- Maintain zero-bug standards and support rapid, high-quality delivery
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years as a software engineer, including 6+ years leading engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers or tech leads
- You've grown an engineering team to 15+ at a VC-funded startup and hired most of it yourself
- You've built hiring processes, levels, performance reviews, and salary bands from scratch
- You've shipped AI features to production, including retrieval, RAG, and agentic workflows
- You've built and shipped with Claude Code and Cursor in real production work
- Senior or principal engineering background before management; able to contribute to design reviews, debugging, or feature development
- Experience building something zero to one at a startup or scaling a team through the messy middle
- Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST); EMEA-based, ideally Germany or UK
- Product taste and high standards for quality
- Direct feedback and difficult performance conversations
- Proactive written communication in a remote team
- Nice to have: engineering organization grown past 30
- Nice to have: led an engineering team through an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audit
- Nice to have: led engineering for a B2B SaaS product moving from SMB into mid-market
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity: Generous package — we're all owners here
- Development budget: €1,000/year
- Workspace: Remote workspace support + co-working access
- Holidays: 26 days + local public holidays
- Health insurance: Comprehensive coverage
- Annual retreat
- Tech: MacBook, monitors, headphones — the latest
- Remote: 100% remote with a real virtual office in Gather