Head of Engineering
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Own engineering at Lemon.io, leading a growing engineering team and driving the company's transition from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform. The role is hands-on and works side by side with the founder.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Own the technical roadmap and make sure every engineering effort maps directly to business impact
- 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
- 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
What we're looking for
- Product-minded, business-first
- Obsessed with simplicity
- First principles thinker
- Fast, bias toward action
- 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
A massive, unsolved problem: hiring is still broken. We're building the product that makes it radically faster for companies to find qualified engineers
- 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 team of 60 people who move fast, care deeply, and have survived the hard years together
Apply
Direct apply at Lemon.io
Opens the job posting at Lemon.io
About Lemon.io
A profitable, growing talent marketplace that connects vetted senior engineers with companies that need them
Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace that connects vetted senior engineers with companies that need them. We've been in business for 10 years, have 60 people across Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and the US, and process over $16M in annual GMV. We compress the traditional 2–5 week hiring timeline down to 24–48 hours through a curated, pre-vetted supply of developers.
Key facts
- 60 people
- talent marketplace
- Profitable and growing
- 10 years in business
- 60 people across Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and the US
- Process over $16M in annual GMV
- Compresses the traditional 2–5 week hiring timeline down to 24–48 hours
- Transitioning from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform
What they value
- High ownership
- High speed
- Low bureaucracy