Head of Engineering

Tilig is looking for a talented and ambitious Head of Engineering who is passionate about developing a high-quality and scalable consumer software product. This individual has managed mobile and web application development in the past and is excited about managing a high-growth engineering team.

The Head of Engineering will be responsible for maintaining high engineering standards amongst our fully remote team and will manage all aspects of the engineering and product release process including Frontend and Backend Development, QA, and DevOps. The Head of Engineering will play a crucial role in setting our technology roadmap and will have the responsibility to hire, scale and build out the engineering organization as they see fit.

You’ll be given the freedom and trust to do your best work at Tilig!

Tilig is an app that balances seriousness with playfulness - we are an app designed for ease of use and delight in a more serious and dry industry (internet security). We are a simple free password manager built for small business and busy families. Tilig exists because the world needs it. We believe that a good, simple, free password manager is something that makes us as a society less vulnerable for hackers.

👀 We’re looking for:

• 7+ years engineering experience
• Strong management and engineering leadership experience in a fast-growing startup environment or startup paced team within a larger organization
• Expertise in best coding practices, latest standards, and full-stack architecture complexities including managing a complex multi-platform stack and balancing speed vs quality
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal and communication skills to manage and motivate the engineering team
• Prior experience scaling an engineering organization including hiring developers, QA, DevOps, and system architects
• Prior experience managing mobile SaaS applications with high transaction volume; security, financial sector/credit card systems experience is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience or affinity with our stack: Ruby, GCP or other cloud providers, Firebase, Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS and/or macOS), Vue.js or other modern SPA frameworks, Typescript
• Prior experience with publishing multi-platform browser extensions (e.g. Firefox and Chrome-derivatives, (mobile) Safari) is a plus)
• Strong feeling of responsibility for the quality of created code and resulting applications, especially in the areas of privacy and security of end-users

🤗 Who you are:

This role is ideal if you have 7+ years of strong engineering leadership and are passionate about motivating the engineering organization. We’ll really hit it off if:

• You enjoy doing code reviews. Lots of code reviews ;)
• You have the knowledge and experience to make a multi-platform engineering team work like a well-oiled machine
• You know how to create and foster an engineering culture that values quality, security, ease of use, speed, and a bit of fun
• You have hands-on experience with encryption and/or security
• You have experience with multi-platform native apps
• Know how to create a quality and security mindset within an engineering team
• Are interested in hiring, mentoring and management
• Are able to make the right demands of engineers in concordance with their abilities and experience and guide them in their development
• Understand the need for documentation, protocols and policies
• Have experience doing formal performance reviews. Like really formal. With a power point presentation that contains lots of bullet points
• You are okay with our CEO and Head of Security being engineers who will spot bugs in the code your team delivers, and making you personally responsible for it. ;)
• You’re familiar with remote work (or excited to try it!)

🔍 What you’ll do:

• Hire, manage, and grow a high performing engineering organization including front-end/back-end developers, mobile developers, DevOps engineers, and QA teams
• Work closely with our Head of Security to build the long-term engineering roadmap, manage product sprints/releases, and optimize the product
• Evaluate diagnostic/analytics tools like Sentry, Firebase, GitLab, Mixpanel, our Kubernetes stack, etc. to improve product release process, prioritize tasks including new features, bug fixes, architectural updates, and quality assurance
• Build a culture of quality from the ground up and proactively ensure the entire engineering organization prioritizes QA throughout the development and release process
• Make our engineering team work smoothly

🐿 Tilig

Tilig is a healthy startup, founded by Sid Sijbrandij, founder and CEO of GitLab. The team is 15 strong and growing with the mission of building everyone's personal assistant. The first iteration of that product is a simple, safe, and easy-to-use password manager - it’s the password manager that works for everyone, and it’s free forever *.* Our ultimate mission is to make the web easier to use for everyone. You can read more about Tilig on our about page.

👋 More About Us:

• We work in self-directed and autonomous teams with clear goals and ambitious objectives
• Being remote-first, we have a bias towards asynchronous communication and respect each others’ deep work time
• We agonize over the simplicity and usability of our product. After all, we want to make the web safer to use for everyone, not just the tech savvy
• We pay close attention to the cohesiveness of our product across devices because we want users to seamlessly transition from one to the other
• We are data-driven and user-centric, buzzwords that we actually follow through on

💛 Happy at Tilig:

• 💻 Get all the tools you need to be productive
• 🕒 Enjoy flexible working hours
• 🌴 Benefit from unlimited vacation days
• 🌍 Live & work from any country within -3/+3 CET
• 🔒 Work on a product that keeps people safe online

📝 Hiring Process:

1. The first step is to apply using the form on this page!
2. Introduction with someone from the team to learn more about Tilig and the role
3. Meet the hiring manager to get a first-hand understanding of what the day-to-day challenges of a Tilig engineer are
4. Work through a practical engineering challenge with the team ~60 min
5. Meet more members of your future team
6. Final Chat and Offer 🎉