Head of Engineering
Primary stack
Job description
About the Position
Head of Engineering
Location
Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Development
About Lemon.io
Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace that connects vetted senior engineers with companies that need them. We’ve been in business for 10 years, have 60 people across Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and the US, and process over $16M in annual GMV. We compress the traditional 2–5 week hiring timeline down to 24–48 hours through a curated, pre-vetted supply of developers.
Hiring is still broken. Recruiters spend weeks building candidate pipelines on traditional platforms, burning energy on unqualified leads. We’re building the product that changes that. Giving recruiters qualified, vetted candidates within 24 hours without the grind. This is a pivotal moment: we’re transitioning from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform. We need an engineering leader who can drive that transformation.
The Role
You will own engineering at Lemon.io. You’ll lead a growing team of engineers, make critical architecture and prioritization decisions, and be directly accountable for the speed and quality of what we ship. This is not a management-layer role. You’ll be hands-on, deeply involved in product decisions, and working side by side with the founder.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap and make sure every engineering effort maps directly to business impact. No features for features’ sake.
- Lead and grow an engineering team that ships fast, iterates constantly, and treats complexity as a cost.
- Tackle the hard, multi-layered problem: automated vetting, intelligent matching at scale, demand-side bottlenecks. And figure out where the real leverage is.
- Make hard prioritization calls. Decide what we build, what we skip, and what we kill.
- Work directly with the founder and product team to define what success looks like before writing a single line of code.
- Build the engineering culture: high ownership, high speed, low bureaucracy.
Requirements
- Product-minded, business-first
- Obsessed with simplicity
- First principles thinker
- Fast. Bias toward action
Experience
- You’ve led engineering teams (5–30+ people) at a startup or high-growth company.
- You have hands-on experience with modern stacks and are comfortable with AI/ML tooling.
- You’ve worked in a distributed, async-first team.
Why Lemon.io
- Profitable and growing. No fundraising pressure, real business fundamentals.
- A pivotal moment: you’re not maintaining an engine, you’re building one. The product roadmap is wide open.
- Direct access to the founder. No layers. Your decisions ship.
- A massive, unsolved problem: hiring is still broken. We’re building the product that makes it radically faster for companies to find qualified engineers.
- A team of 60 people who move fast, care deeply, and have survived the hard years together.
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Have you ever heard aboutLemon.iobefore?If you have, here’s what it probably was:1. “Their website and brand are just so freaking cool. Check it out:lemon.io/2. “I love their CEO’s Twitter! They’re completely transparent and share everything, including actual numbers.”3. “I know several developers who work withLemon.io. All of them said thatLemon.io’s team is amazing and the clients they’ve been connected with are the best they’ve ever had.”4. “I read an article about them on Forbes.”5. “My friend works atLemon.ioand they’re really chill. Their team is fully remote and a lot of team members work from different cities and even countries, but they make sure they also get to have offline events & people come from all over the world.”6. “Their business model is cool. They connect devs with American startups for full-time projects. Their rates for developers are above the market average and they have a zero-fee policy for programmers.”7. They’ve paid out more than $8 000 000 to Ukrainian developers to date, brewed over 3000 bottles of craft beer to celebrate that occasion, and just gave it all out to the IT community for free.And if you haven’t heard of us yet... well, now you have :)What people may not know about us is that we’re also one of the few Ukrainian companies that are in the startup game for real. We play on the global market competing with giant international corporations.It’s not an easy game, but if you’re fast & eager, not a single Goliath stands a chance against you.We try our best to keep our team small and only hire the best talent we can’t live without.Thanks to that, we can make sure that:1. You will forget about bureaucracy and micromanagement2. You will have a direct impact on what’s going on. Not just on paper.3. You will have plenty of room to grow.Oh, and one more thing:As a part of our team, you will compete against the smartest professionals in your field on a global scale. And outsmarting them? Oh, it’s going to be a lot of fun.If that sounds like a story you want to be a part of, take a look at our current job openings and learn more about what we offer👇— complete transparency,— full remote (but we gladly meet each quarter),— competitive salary in USD,— bonuses for things we believe in: sport, self-development, travel,— monthly bonus for your home office,— flexible working hours (or even days!),— 28 working days for time-off,— 7 sick leave days,— pride to be a part of viral content generators :)Tools that we use to synchronize: Slack, G Suite products, Notion, JIRA.We will be happy to see you among the applicants if you feel like wearing aLemon.iohoodie. If there is no open vacancy, that is matching your profile, you can still get to our talents database by sending your CV to[email protected]
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