Head of Product Engineering

Role overview Lead engineering for a growing software product focused on helping organizations manage security compliance, while shaping the technical direction and the team that delivers it. The role combines hands-on engineering credibility with organization-wide leadership: you’ll improve delivery speed and quality, build management and hiring practices, and guide production AI capabilities from early development toward reliable customer use.

Responsibilities - Start by shipping a meaningful product feature with the engineering team, then identify and remove obstacles that slow delivery. - Establish lightweight practices for technical reviews, testing, security, performance conversations, and team organization. - Lead regular one-to-ones and support engineers and technical leads in improving output and quality. - Take ownership of engineering hiring, including building a repeatable process and shaping future team roles. - Set technical direction for AI-enabled workflows such as evidence collection, retrieval, and policy generation. - Guide the team’s growth as it expands from its current size toward a planned organization of roughly 16 engineers and designers.

Requirements - 10+ years in software engineering, including 6+ years leading engineering teams and 2+ years managing managers or technical leads. - Experience growing an engineering team to 15 or more at a venture-funded startup and hiring much of that team. - Built practical people systems such as hiring processes, role levels, performance reviews, and compensation bands. - Shipped AI features into production, including retrieval, RAG, or agentic workflows, with attention to reliability on real customer data. - Strong product judgment and experience using Claude Code and Cursor in production work. - Deep engineering background with the ability to contribute to design reviews, debugging, and implementation; available to work in European time zones.

Nice to have - Experience growing an engineering organization beyond 30 people. - Led engineering through an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audit, or supported a B2B SaaS product moving from small business to mid-market customers.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote in EMEA, with Germany preferred and CET/CEST working hours expected. - Equity, annual learning budget, workspace and co-working support, health coverage, 26 days of holiday plus local public holidays, and an annual team retreat. - Company-provided laptop, monitors, and headphones.