Lead Engineer - Remote Position with AI Focus

About the Role

As a Lead Engineer, you'll lead a small squad (typically 3 engineers) to deliver a clear mission end-to-end: setting direction, making pragmatic technical decisions, and ensuring the team ships reliably. This is a hands-on squad leadership role: you will write code, review code, own architecture choices, and be accountable for outcomes. You'll partner closely with Product (PM) and Design, and coordinate where needed with Security Research and Ops/Infra. In our model, squads are built around missions — Flow (Industrialisation) and Ecosystem (Distribution), as described in the pipeline above. Your exact squad mission will be confirmed during hiring, but the leadership expectations are consistent across both.

What You'll Do

• Own your squad's mission and delivery cadence: define milestones, ensure steady shipping, and remove blockers.
• Translate high-level goals into a delivery plan: scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and risks.
• Drive a high-quality execution loop: clear tickets/specs, small PRs, fast reviews, strong release habits.
• Maintain a predictable operating rhythm: planning, weekly goals, retros, and continuous improvement.
• Make and communicate pragmatic architectural decisions, guided by our technical principles.
• Set standards for code quality, testing strategy, observability, and performance.
• Own technical debt management: pay it down deliberately while maintaining delivery speed.
• Leverage AI tools and automation to accelerate development, testing, and operational workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years leading or owning delivery for a small team.
• Strong backend/full-stack capability with Laravel/PHP, API design, and pragmatic system design.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and observability tooling.
• High standards on security, performance, and maintainability.
• Comfort and curiosity with AI-assisted development.

Nice to Have

• Interest in the security domain.
• Experience in a small, scaling company.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary + meaningful ESOP.
• Remote-first — work from anywhere with reasonable overlap with EU timezones.
• High autonomy — you'll own the mission, not just execute tickets.
• AI tooling budget — we invest in tools that make engineers faster.
• 38 days a year paid time off (including public holidays).