[Hiring] Head of Engineering @Lemon.io

Role Description

You will own engineering at Lemon.io. You’ll lead a growing team of engineers, make critical architecture and prioritization decisions, and be directly accountable for the speed and quality of what we ship. This is not a management-layer role. You’ll be hands-on, deeply involved in product decisions, and working side by side with the founder.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the technical roadmap and make sure every engineering effort maps directly to business impact. No features for features’ sake.
• Lead and grow an engineering team that ships fast, iterates constantly, and treats complexity as a cost.
• Tackle the hard, multi-layered problem: automated vetting, intelligent matching at scale, demand-side bottlenecks. And figure out where the real leverage is.
• Make hard prioritization calls. Decide what we build, what we skip, and what we kill.
• Work directly with the founder and product team to define what success looks like before writing a single line of code.
• Build the engineering culture: high ownership, high speed, low bureaucracy.

Qualifications

• Product-minded, business-first
• Obsessed with simplicity
• First principles thinker
• Fast. Bias toward action

Requirements

• You’ve led engineering teams (5–30+ people) at a startup or high-growth company.
• You have hands-on experience with modern stacks and are comfortable with AI/ML tooling.
• You’ve worked in a distributed, async-first team.

Benefits

• Profitable and growing. No fundraising pressure, real business fundamentals.
• A pivotal moment: you’re not maintaining an engine, you’re building one. The product roadmap is wide open.
• Direct access to the founder. No layers. Your decisions ship.
• A massive, unsolved problem: hiring is still broken. We’re building the product that makes it radically faster for companies to find qualified engineers.
• A team of 60 people who move fast, care deeply, and have survived the hard years together.