Junior
Head of Engineering
New York City. Posted a month ago
The role
The Head of Engineering will own day-to-day engineering operations including people, planning, delivery, reliability, and recruiting. You will report to the CTO and turn technical direction into results while remaining a deeply technical leader close to the code.
What you will do
- Own day-to-day operations of engineering including people, planning, delivery, reliability and recruiting
- Set clear priorities, owners and achievable scope across Engineering, Product and Design
- Develop hands-on Engineering Leads
- Build a lean organization capable of growing toward 40–60 engineers
- Own engineering hiring and maintain a high technical bar
- Lead feedback, performance and development
- Establish clear ownership of critical systems and improve incident response
- Remove friction across tooling, testing, reviews and delivery
- Turn AI-assisted engineering into measurable improvements in speed and quality
- Own engineering infrastructure, tooling and AI spend
Required qualifications
- Deeply technical and can write production code, understand unfamiliar systems and debug difficult problems
- Led engineering teams through meaningful growth and ambiguity
- Can point to specific improvements made across delivery, reliability and organizational clarity
- Hired excellent engineers and developed strong ICs and engineering leaders
- Comfortable giving difficult feedback and making performance decisions
- Knows when management and process help and when they get in the way
- Built software where reliability, security and customer trust matter
- Uses AI development tools thoughtfully
- Can challenge a highly technical founder constructively
- Wants to work closely with Product, customers and the codebase
- Based in New York, or committed to relocating, and excited to work with the team in person
Nice to have
- Prior VP or Head of Engineering experience
About the company
Junior is building an AI intelligence platform for high-stakes investment research. The company is bootstrapped and profitable with a ~$30M+ Revenue Run Rate.