Head of Engineering

Your role at Kittl

As Head of Engineering, you’ll lead the people side of our engineering organization. You'll own people leadership and delivery across these teams, reporting to the CTO. Your reports are a group of engineers plus a couple of team leads. You'll manage the ICs directly, help growing the team leads into stronger leaders, and keep delivery moving across the board. You'll partner closely with Product and Marketing to manage engineering capacity and make sure what we build lines up with where the company is going.

What you'll do

• Lead the team: Manage the engineers reporting to you directly, and coach your team leads

• Streamline execution: Audit and improve development processes to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce waste, and increase team predictability and velocity

• Set people standards: Define consistent and fair approaches to performance, feedback, career growth, and onboarding, while ensuring teams are structured effectively and people are aligned to the highest-impact opportunities

• Connect up and across: Give leadership clear, regular updates on progress and risks, and translate company strategy into what your teams actually work on

• Stay technically sharp: Weigh in on architecture and technical direction with your teams, and keep close enough to the code to make good calls and earn trust

• Support the vision: Work with the CTO to shape and communicate engineering strategy, and help carry it through the org

What you’ll need

• Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years managing engineering teams

• Growing leaders: Experience developing senior engineers and team leads, and a readiness to grow them into managers over time

• People-first leadership: You get energy from growing people, and you've built teams others want to join

• Technical depth: Strong background in software development, architecture, and systems design. You can effectively steer technical strategy, uphold engineering standards, and empower teams to own execution

• Stack: Comfortable with TypeScript and a React / Node.js stack, familiar with modern frameworks

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (45 min)

• CTO interview (60 min)

• Product Lead interview (45 min)

• Meeting the team (back-to-back, 30 min + 30 min)

• Bar raiser interview with CEO (45 min)

Our core tech stack: TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, Next.js, Postgres, Pulumi, k8s

You'll do well here if 🎉

• You pick up problems nobody assigned you. If something's broken and no one has stepped up, you're the person who does

• You'd rather make the call and adjust than wait until you're certain. Velocity is the only advantage that can't be copied

• You want to own a domain deeply enough that people rely on your judgement in it, whether or not you manage anyone

• You'll argue for your position and commit fully when the call goes the other way

• You care about details other people would call excessive. Our standards are higher than most people think is reasonable, on purpose

• You use AI constantly and still own every word you ship

It's probably not the right fit if 🥺

• You need consensus before you move

• You'd rather specialise narrowly than own a whole problem end to end

• You find it draining to have your thinking challenged in the open. We do that a lot, and it's sometimes uncomfortable

Every new hire should raise the bar in some meaningful way, not just fill a seat. We hold to that, and it's why you'll be working with the most talented people from all over the world.