Head of Software Engineering - Remote

Overview

We’re hiring a Head of Engineering to own the architectural health, scalability, and performance of our SEO platform. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-paced startup environments yet brings the rigor and best practices learned from larger organizations.

In Short

• Define and maintain long-term platform architecture and establish coding standards across engineering teams
• Lead large-scale refactoring projects to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across API, database, and infrastructure layers
• Optimize task queues, background processing, caching, and deployment pipelines
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior engineers, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on observability, reliability, security, and cost-efficient scaling
• Lead incident postmortems with root-cause analysis and long-term fixes
• Stay hands-on with coding, prototyping, debugging, and adapting to changing priorities with high-leverage solutions

Requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years of backend Python/Django experience.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role (Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, or Tech Lead).
• Proven experience leading large-scale refactoring and optimization projects.
• Deep PostgreSQL expertise, including indexing, query optimization, and schema design.
• Proficiency in Celery or similar distributed task processing systems.
• Strong infrastructure foundation, containerization (Docker), CI/CD, Kubernetes familiarity, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana.
• Startup experience and exposure to larger organizations, with the ability to blend agility with engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills in distributed teams.

Benefits

• $6,000-$8,000 USD per month/depending on your location and skills/experience
• 15 Days Paid Time Off + Christmas Day + New Year's Day Paid Off