About the role

Role Overview

Head of Engineering at Lemon.io. You will own engineering end-to-end and lead a transformation from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform. This is a hands-on, product-involved leadership role—working directly with the founder and product team.

What You’ll Do

Own the technical roadmap and ensure engineering work maps to business impact (no feature-for-feature work).
Lead and grow an engineering team to ship fast and iterate constantly.
Treat complexity as a cost; make engineering decisions that maximize leverage.
Tackle hard, multi-layer problems such as:
- Automated vetting
- Intelligent matching at scale
- Demand-side bottlenecks
Make hard prioritization calls: decide what to build, skip, and kill.
Partner with the founder and product team to define success metrics before writing code.
Build engineering culture focused on:
- High ownership
- High speed
- Low bureaucracy

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineering teams (5–30+ people) in a startup or high-growth environment.
Hands-on experience with modern engineering stacks.
Comfort working with AI/ML tooling.
Experience in a distributed, async-first team.

Nice to Haves

Product-minded, business-first mindset with strong ability to simplify.
Strong first-principles thinking and bias toward action.

Work Location / Timezones

USA timezones or European timezones.
Application accepted from a listed set of countries across Europe and parts of the Americas (as provided in the posting).

About Lemon.io

Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace and technology platform that connects vetted senior engineers with companies that need them. It shortens the traditional hiring timeline by providing a curated, pre-vetted developer supply and aims to replace recruiter grind with automated vetting and intelligent matching at scale.

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