Head of Engineering

The role

The Head of Engineering will own all engineering output including product quality, velocity, reliability, and security. This person will build the engineering team from its current size to 15–20 engineers in 12 months and partner with the CEO on product direction.

What you will do

• Own all engineering output: product quality, velocity, reliability, and security
• Build the engineering team from current size to 15–20 in 12 months
• Set and enforce a shipping culture
• Partner directly with the CEO on product direction, prioritization, and customer-facing technical conversations
• Architect and evolve the platform for enterprise scale
• Establish lightweight but real engineering practices

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• At least 3 years in a technical leadership or founding engineering role at a product-led company
• Demonstrated experience scaling an engineering team from small to 20+ engineers
• Deep, hands-on experience shipping AI/ML or agentic systems to production at enterprise scale
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic architectures
• Background in security, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS
• Has operated in a domain where correctness matters (fintech, security, health, compliance)

About the company

Zania is building AI agents for enterprise governance, risk, and compliance teams to execute complex workflows with full explainability. The company is Series A and has raised $18M from NEA, Anthropic, and Menlo Ventures.