Head of Engineering

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About the role

Head of Engineering to lead engineering for one of Moss's product tribes. You'll manage 15 to 20 engineers directly, with tech leads in each squad owning technical direction but no management layer between you and the team. You report to the CTO and sit in a tribe leadership trio with the Product Tribe Lead and Design Lead.

What you'll own

• Feasibility and delivery for the tribe: tribe-wide delivery outcomes and velocity, the right problems solved at the right quality, as fast as possible.
• The people: hiring, onboarding, expectations, feedback, development, compensation and promotion recommendations, and the tough calls that keep talent density high.
• Technical judgement across squads: broad understanding of the tribe's systems and how they fit into the wider Moss architecture; challenge estimates and technical proposals from your engineers.
• A seat in the tribe trio: roadmap and planning input through a feasibility lens; argue solutions and trade-offs with the Product Tribe Lead as a technical peer.
• Operating rhythm: how the tribe plans, estimates, tracks and reports on delivery, with proactive, timely transparency to the tribe and to leadership.
• Capacity: putting your best people on the most impactful work, moving engineers between squads while letting people build real domain depth.

What you'll need

• 4 to 6+ years in engineering management, with a track record of managing engineers directly at a meaningful span.
• A senior engineering career before that; judgement on system design is current, not historical.
• Strong systems design: read an architecture, spot where it will break, and argue an alternative.
• Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership; shaped roadmaps and scope through feasibility arguments.
• Ability to structure at scale without a middle layer: clear expectations, regular feedback, visible delivery for 15 to 20 direct reports.
• Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices: code review, testing, incident handling, planning and estimation that actually work.

Nice to have

• Background at an AI product company or in ERP / financial systems.
• Experience leading in a flat or tribe/squad-style organisation.
• Experience with a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager split.

What they offer

• Leadership of a 15-20 person engineering tribe with direct impact on product direction
• Seat in tribe leadership trio alongside Product and Design
• One manager framework applied consistently across all people leaders at Moss
• Flat organisational structure with regular evolution (roughly every six months)

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