[Hiring] Head of Engineering @Obsidian Systems

Role Description

The Head of Engineering is a newly created role designed to scale engineering from 60 to 100+ across our consulting business. You will take ownership of people leadership, engineer development, and team accountability as we enter our next stage of growth. This is a leadership-first role. What we need is someone who builds great teams, creates clarity, holds people well, and can scale a culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth environment, managing senior individual contributors and technical leaders at scale.
• A genuine appreciation for functional programming principles; understanding the philosophy and advocating for it.
• A track record of building engineering culture, helping teams internalize values and ways of working.
• Strong instincts around coaching, performance, and developing leaders who are new to management.
• Experience in a consulting or services-plus-product environment, or comfort operating across more than one business model.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with deep technical experts, working alongside strong technical leaders.
• Comfortable operating in a remote-first, global, low-ego environment where directness and trust are the currency.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building structure as you go.

Requirements

• Own engineer accountability on delivery, partnering closely with the Head of Consulting Operations.
• Lead, coach, and develop our engineering team, including our Tech Leads.
• Own performance management, feedback cycles, and career development for all engineers.
• Own hiring and onboarding for all engineering roles, building the team, and raising the bar as we scale.
• Build and manage a rotation assignment program for engineers.
• Champion our engineering methodology and cultural values.
• Own AI usage policy and guardrails for the engineering team.
• Own internal security practices and compliance accountability.
• Serve as the primary point of cross-departmental engagement and escalation for engineering.
• Oversee incident management and change management processes.
• Own technical risk mitigation at the team and delivery level.
• Support sales engineering efforts and research and development as needed.
• Guide business analysis capability within the engineering team.

Who Should Apply?

Our engineering culture is rooted in functional programming principles. We do not mandate FP, but the philosophy of composability, clarity of reasoning, and building systems that are easy to understand shapes how we think and how we build. If that excites you, you will fit right in.