Own engineering delivery, organizational design, security, infrastructure, fraud initiatives, incident escalation, and cross-functional prioritization. Build scalable team structures, propose hiring plans, represent engineering to executives, and oversee infrastructure and data decisions. The role requires substantial engineering leadership experience, hands-on backend or full-stack development experience, and a track record of scaling engineering organizations at startups or scaleups.
Tagline: Own delivery, org design, and accountability as engineering scales.
Experience: 10+ years
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The roleEngineering at Clipster has grown past what one role can carry. Our Head of Engineering has owned delivery cadence, org design, security, the fraud initiative, infrastructure, and incident escalation alongside the architecture and code quality bar — and that combination doesn't scale further. You'll take exec-level accountability for that first list — org structure, delivery planning, security, the fraud initiative, infrastructure, incident escalation — while our Head of Engineering stays focused on architecture, code quality, and the engineering hiring bar. You'll report directly to our CEO and represent engineering to the rest of the leadership team.
What you'll do- Design team composition and pod structure as engineering scales.
- Carry accountability for security outcomes across the team.
- Take accountability for infrastructure and data decisions across the stack.
- Represent engineering to the other department heads and run cross-department intake and prioritization.
- Propose headcount plans and role sequencing for CEO approval.
- Own incident escalation from first alert to resolution.
- Weigh in on product prioritization alongside our product leads.
- 6+ years in engineering leadership roles, including time as a CTO, VP Engineering, or Head of Engineering at a product company.
- Hands-on software engineering experience earlier in your career — this is not a PM, Scrum Master, or delivery-manager path into engineering leadership.
- Backend-heavy or fullstack-with-backend foundation: platforms, infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud. Pure frontend backgrounds won’t fit.
- A track record of actually building and scaling an engineering org — hiring, forming pods, installing process — at a startup or scaleup, not inheriting one already built.
- Comfortable representing engineering to a CEO and to non-engineering department heads, and owning cross-department intake and prioritization.
- Bonus: background in marketplace, SaaS, creator, adtech, or payments, exposure to trust & safety or fraud work, or security compliance experience (SOC 2, pen-testing).
- A competitive salary that reflects the impact you have, reviewed as you grow into more.
- Flexible time off — take what you need. We trust adults to manage their own energy, not a leave balance.
- Remote-first: work wherever you’re most productive, and we get together in person when it makes sense.
- A one-time $1,000 home office bonus to set up a workspace you’ll actually want to work from.
- An annual education stipend for books, courses, and conferences.
- Screening interview
- Deep dive into experience
- System design
- Part-time trial
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