Head of Product Engineering

The role

You will lead the engineering organization, owning technical decisions, team pace, and people leadership. You will manage the engineering end-to-end, including hiring, technical direction, and refining software development processes.

What you will do

• Own the engineering end-to-end including technical decisions and pace
• Refine software development processes to maintain high velocity
• Improve engineering testing, automation, and code review processes
• Manage team structure, performance reviews, and hiring plans
• Build and grow the engineering team from 8 to approximately 16 people
• Ship meaningful features with the team using AI
• Manage the transition of engineering leadership from the CTO
• Maintain a zero-bug policy as the team scales

Required qualifications

• 10+ years as a software engineer
• 6+ years leading engineering teams
• 2+ years managing managers or tech leads
• Experience growing an engineering team to 15+ at a VC-funded startup
• Experience building hiring processes, levels, performance reviews, and salary bands from scratch
• Shipped AI features to production including retrieval, RAG, or agentic workflows
• Experience building and shipping with Claude Code and Cursor in real production work
• Senior or principal engineer background
• Experience building zero to one at a startup or scaling a team through the messy middle
• Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST)
• EMEA-based, ideally Germany or UK

Nice to have

• Grown an engineering org past 20 in the AI era
• Taken an engineering team through an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audit
• Led engineering for a B2B SaaS product moving from SMB into mid-market

Benefits

• 100% remote with a virtual office in Gather
• Generous equity package
• €1,000/year development budget
• Remote workspace support and co-working access
• 26 days of holidays plus local public holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Annual retreat
• MacBook, monitors, and headphones

Before you apply

• Intro call with talent team
• Interview with Grigory
• Technical interview
• 1.5 hour AI-assisted build session
• 2 hour leadership session with founders

About the company

Secfix builds security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort. They are a category leader in Europe, building an automated platform that integrates with tech stacks to guide teams to certification.