Head of Engineering
Core
Lead the entire engineering organization, defining technical vision, architecture, and operating models to ship reliable software for a marketplace/enterprise platform.
Role type
Principal engineering executive (Head of Engineering)
Builds
Engineering organization, scalable distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure
Domain
E-commerce, B2B SaaS, Marketplace
Required skills
Strategic technical vision, organizational design and scaling, distributed systems architecture, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), security and compliance (SOC 2), budget management, team leadership and hiring
Preferred skills
Experience in marketplaces or enterprise platforms, building an org from the ground up, agentic AI and LLM-powered code generation, API management
Technologies
AWS (EKS, ECR, RDS, etc.), Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Spinnaker
Responsibilities
Translate business objectives into a 1-3 year engineering plan and roadmap; recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; establish engineering-wide standards for planning, delivery, and code quality; manage the engineering budget including headcount and cloud costs; own security posture and SOC 2 compliance; champion agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration to improve delivery velocity.
Seniority
Executive, strategic leadership
