Head of Product Engineering
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SecfixSecurity compliance software
Remote (EMEA), CET/CESTFull-TimeDirector
SalaryGenerous package — we're all owners here
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years as a software engineer, including 6+ years leading engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers or tech leads
- Required Skills
- Software Engineering
Requirements
- Have 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Have 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
- Have 2+ years of experience managing managers or tech leads.
- Have grown an engineering team to 15+ at a VC-funded startup and hired most of the team.
- Have built lightweight hiring processes, levels, performance reviews, and salary bands from scratch.
- Have shipped AI features to production, including retrieval, RAG, or agentic workflows.
- Have built and shipped with Claude Code and Cursor in production work.
- Have a senior or principal engineering background and be able to contribute in design reviews, debugging sessions, or feature development.
- Have product judgment and experience building or scaling a startup team.
- Be able to work in the European timezone (CET/CEST) and be based in EMEA.
Responsibilities
- Ship a meaningful feature with AI alongside the team during the first month.
- Identify and address bottlenecks in tooling, review and testing, and work allocation.
- Run regular 1:1s focused on weekly output, quality, and engineers' use of AI.
- Take over engineering hiring and build a process that runs without the CTO's oversight.
- Shape the engineering organization and determine which lead roles to hire or develop.
- Own engineering technical direction and how the team tests, reviews code, and reviews security changes.
- Refine software development processes and take accountability for cycle time from specification to production.
- Develop team structure, levels, performance reviews, and the hiring plan.
- Continue building with the team to assess whether engineering practices deliver work effectively.
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