Head of Engineering

The role

The Head of Engineering will lead the entire engineering organization, owning technical vision, architecture, and organizational health. This person will manage engineering managers, set execution standards, and partner with Product to turn strategy into reliable software.

What you will do

• Translate company and product objectives into a 1-3 year engineering plan and roadmap
• Create engineering organizational structure and lead the engineering team
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent
• Set engineering-wide standards for planning, estimation, and delivery
• Establish engineering metrics, operating rhythms, and governance
• Own and manage technical architecture, infrastructure, security, and technical debt
• Improve engineering velocity while reducing technical debt and operational risk
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate customer requirements into priorities
• Manage the engineering budget including headcount, vendors, and cloud costs
• Establish company-wide engineering practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and incident response

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering
• 7+ years leading engineering managers
• Experience working in marketplaces or enterprise platforms
• Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems
• Direct experience building an engineering org from the ground up or through a major scaling inflection point
• Strong track record setting technical vision and translating it into a roadmap
• Extensive experience communicating engineering strategy, risk, and resourcing to non-technical executives and board members
• Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth or mission-critical environments
• Hands-on background with modern cloud-native architecture including AWS-managed services, infrastructure as code, and containers
• Experience owning security and compliance programs, including SOC 2 controls and audit management
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling and practices
• Experience with API management and service-oriented, API-driven architectures

Nice to have

• Experience in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or marketplace businesses (and their mobile counterparts)

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Robust stock option plan
• 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
• Competitive compensation
• 401k
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• Commuter Benefits through a Flexible Spending Account

About the company

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business, sell or order from brands, and accelerate growth. The company processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.