Founding Head of Engineering

Founding Head of Engineering (Hands-on)⚡

Series A EdTech Firm ⚡

Compensation: 200-250k Base + bonus + Equity

Remote USA (East Coast Preferred) ⚡

We are currently partnered with a Series A mobile first EdTech platform that specializes in developing products for students that helps ehance academic, financial, and emotional wellbein in search of Head of Engineering to join their team.

This is going to be the first full-time engineering hire for the firm so we are looking for an individual who can still contribute to code and has scaled a team in the past.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the full engineering strategy, technical roadmap, and long-term platform architecture.

• Make core decisions on infrastructure, architecture, and development processes.

• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and a high-performance developer culture.

• Write and ship production-level code daily across frontend, backend, and mobile surfaces.

• Lead and mentor a small engineering team as it grows from 1 → 3 → 10+ over the first 12–24 months.

• Design and implement AI-driven features for workflow automation, content generation, optimisation, personalisation, and recommendation logic.

• Work closely with the CEO and CPO to influence product strategy, delivery timelines, and fundraising narratives.

Qualifications

Technical Experience

• 7–12+ years of software engineering experience, with strong full-stack capability.
• Mandatory: Experience building and launching a mobile app from 0 → 1 in a startup or lean environment.
• Proven experience architecting, shipping, and scaling high-usage consumer or mobile products.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI in production (content, automation, personalization, or workflow optimisation).
• Operates with a founder mindset—ownership, urgency, scrappy execution, and comfort with ambiguity.

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Technical Stack Experience (or willingness to adapt)

Exposure to or readiness to work with technologies such as:

• Frontend/Mobile: Vue 3, TypeScript, Capacitor, mobile-first development, cross-platform deployment.
• Backend: PHP 8, Laravel, Filament, SQLite (with future migration to a scalable DB).
• Hosting & Tooling: Hetzner, CI/CD, automation pipelines.
• Integrations: Firebase, AWIN, Voiceflow, Claude, n8n (planned), or similar tools.