Head of Engineering (Hands-on)

GNO Partners; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GNO Partners in Pakistan is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to run day-to-day delivery while the CTO focuses on architecture and product direction.

You will split time between coding and team leadership, driving sprint plans, code reviews, and delivery quality to ensure high-impact features ship on schedule.

This player-coach role requires fact-based decision making, mentoring, and strong collaboration with the CTO to define the technical vision and hiring bar.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a software engineer with leadership experience.
• Deep TypeScript/Node.js expertise and ability to review NestJS/React code.
• Experience with high-volume data ingestion and analytics pipelines.
• Proven delivery leadership and ability to ship features end-to-end.
• Willingness to mentor teammates and align with CTO in private/public.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery and sprint planning.
• Maintain code quality and production reliability of pipelines.
• Manage people: 1:1s, onboarding, growth conversations.
• Ship meaningful features early and build trust with the team.
• Collaborate with the CTO on architecture and hiring.

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

Team leadership

Data-heavy systems

Delivery planning

Code reviews & quality

Tools

NestJS

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

Temporal

Airflow

Job description

GNO Partners builds the GNO Platform: a suite of tools that helps Amazon sellers optimize their advertising, pricing, and performance. We ingest large volumes of marketplace data daily (Amazon SP-API, Ads API, Amazon Marketing Stream) and turn it into automated bidding optimization, placement management, pricing intelligence, and monitoring that runs while our customers sleep. This is a real data-engineering and product problem, not a CRUD app.

About the role

We're hiring a hands-on engineering leader to run day-to-day delivery so our CTO can focus on architecture and product direction. You'll spend roughly half your time in the code and half running the team: prioritization, planning, 1:1s, and making sure the right things ship at the right quality.

This is a player-coach role. If you've stopped coding, or if you've never managed, this isn't the right fit.

What you'll own

• Delivery. Sprint planning, prioritization against business goals, estimates, and unblocking the team daily.
• Quality. Code review culture, test discipline, and production reliability of our ingestion pipelines and scheduled jobs.
• People. 1:1s, onboarding, growth conversations, and first-round hiring screens as the team scales.
• Shipping code. You'll carry meaningful features yourself, especially early on; that's how you'll earn the team's trust.

The CTO retains technical vision, architecture direction, the hiring bar, and infrastructure strategy. You two will work as a pair, not a hierarchy of approvals.

Our stack

• TypeScript end to end (strict mode)
• Backend: NestJS API, Temporal workflows for data ingestion and background monitoring
• Frontend: React, TanStack Router/Query, AG Grid, Tailwind
• Data: Postgres (Supabase), AWS data warehouse (Iceberg, Athena)
• Integrations: Amazon SP-API, Amazon Ads API, Amazon Marketing Stream
• AI: LangChain/LangGraph with LLM-powered features in production

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years as a software engineer, with 2+ years leading a team of 3-8 while still shipping code
• Deep TypeScript/Node.js experience; you can review a NestJS service or a React data grid and give substantive feedback the same day
• Experience with data-heavy systems: high-volume ingestion, background job orchestration, or warehouse/analytics pipelines
• You've run delivery before: planning, scoping, cutting the right corners, and saying no
• Comfortable being the #2 technical voice; you'll challenge the CTO in private and align in public

Nice to have:

• Temporal (or similar: Airflow, Step Functions) in production
• Amazon marketplace ecosystem experience (SP-API, Ads API, seller tools)
• E-commerce, ad-tech, or analytics product background
• Experience introducing lightweight process to a team that previously had little

What success looks like in 6 months

• Roadmap items ship predictably without the CTO's day-to-day involvement
• You've personally shipped features across the API, worker, and frontend
• The team knows what they're working on this week and why, and quality has gone up, not down

Hiring Process

• Technical deep-dive on a real system you built