Remote Engineering Delivery Leader (Equity + Growth)

SearchApi; Norway; Remote; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn from the founder

Annual team retreats (Spain)

Job summary

SearchApi is hiring an engineering leader to own end-to-end delivery, enabling the founder to step back from day-to-day work. You will run cadences, surface risk early, and be the first escalation point when issues arise.

You lead through clear writing and strong decisions, creating a structure where Managers of One emerge. The role focuses on delivering real software, coordinating across teams, and building scalable processes that keep customers happy.

Qualifications

• A written example of how you ran a delivery process or unblocked a team.
• Shipped delivery improvements with measurable impact.
• Technical leadership with product-focused mindset.
• Excellent written communication.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Run the cadences: planning, standups, and retros. Lightweight, useful, never theater.
• Track everything: know the state of every active project and surface risk early.
• Own delivery metrics: cycle time, review latency, reliability; use them thoughtfully.
• Command incidents: be first escalation, coordinate response, and run a blameless RCA that changes things.
• Grow the team: 1:1s, coaching, and a hiring pipeline with a high bar.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Incident command

Hiring at high bar

Technical leadership

Written communication

Tools

GitHub

Notion

Job description

SearchApi is hiring an engineering leader to own end-to-end delivery, enabling the founder to step back from day-to-day work. You will run cadences, surface risk early, and be the first escalation point when issues arise.

You lead through clear writing and strong decisions, creating a structure where Managers of One emerge. The role focuses on delivering real software, coordinating across teams, and building scalable processes that keep customers happy.