Head of Software Engineering

Edison Smart®; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 250.000 - 350.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Fully covered healthcare

Unlimited PTO

Descripción de la vacante

Edison Smart® in New York City seeks a visionary Head of Software Engineering to build and lead a hands-on software team during rapid growth. You will drive architecture, shipping cadence, and customer deployments while shaping long-term roadmaps with founders and product leaders.

You will stay deeply hands-on, writing and reviewing code weekly, and mentor engineers to scale a modern distributed system across cloud and on-prem components.

Formación

• Strong leadership of engineering teams in fast-moving startups.
• Hands-on coding: you write/review code weekly.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems design and tradeoffs.
• Ability to scale teams while delivering weekly shipping cadence.

Responsabilidades

• Hire, grow and retain a high calibre software engineering team
• Set rhythms for fast delivery: planning, standups, retros and code review culture
• Review code daily and ship 1 to 3 PRs a week
• Drive architecture decisions and debug production issues with the team
• Own the long-term software roadmap with founders and product
• Lead near-term customer deployments with real architectural challenges
• Be the technical voice in leadership across hardware, research and product

Conocimientos

Leadership

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Herramientas

Kubernetes

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Descripción del empleo

Head of Software Engineering

New York, NY (on-site, 5 days)

$250k to $350k base + equity

I'm working with a well backed robotics and AI startup building autonomous robots that work in the real world.

The team is small, growing fast, and about to double. This is a foundational leadership hire, reporting directly to the founders.

They need a Head of Software Engineering to build and lead the software team through rapid growth, while still shipping code every week. Not a role for someone who wants to delegate the hard problems. It's for someone who wants to be in the middle of them.

What you'll do

• Hire, grow and retain a high calibre software engineering team
• Set the rhythms that make the team fast: planning, standups, retros and code review culture
• Review code daily and ship 1 to 3 PRs a week
• Drive architecture decisions and debug production issues alongside the team
• Own the long term software roadmap with the co-founder and product
• Lead near term customer deployments with real architectural challenges
• Be the technical voice in leadership, working across hardware, research and product

What they're looking for

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years leading engineering teams
• Still deeply hands on: you write and review code every week
• Strong distributed systems design and the ability to explain tradeoffs clearly
• Experience growing and stabilising teams in fast moving environments
• Fluent in Go and/or Python
• Has built processes that make teams faster, without the bureaucracy

Nice to have

• Hybrid cloud and on prem, or customer site delivery combining hardware and software
• Robotics, automation or similar hardware heavy background
• Agentic systems, LLM workflows or AI infrastructure
• Kubernetes, AWS and infrastructure as code

Package:

$250k to $350k base, equity, fully covered healthcare, unlimited PTO. On-site in NYC 5 days a week.