Head of Technology

• *About the job**
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We're looking for an Head of Technology : who can own the technical health and growth of our backend platform. You'll be part architect, part tech lead, part engineering manager. You won't just review code — you'll set the standard for how code is written, how systems are designed, and how the team thinks about quality, cost, and customer impact. This is not a senior IC role where you write code all day. And it's not a pure management role where you're in meetings all day. It's the balance between the two — the person who makes the team better while staying close enough to the code to make good decisions

What You'll Own

• System Reliability \& Upkeep
• Own the health of a production multi\-tenant Node.js/TypeScript backend serving real\-time messaging traffic
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post\-mortem culture
• Identify and drive reduction of technical debt — proactively, not reactively
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, and observability are in good shape (we use New Relic, Sentry, Pino structured logging)
• Work across multiple backend services and ensure they integrate reliably
• Scalable, Quality Engineering
• Design and review system architecture decisions — schema changes, service boundaries, async workflows (we use Temporal.io), queue design
• Drive engineering standards: code review culture, PR quality, test coverage, error handling patterns
• Establish and enforce engineering practices that let the team ship fast without accumulating hidden risk
• Evaluate build vs. buy decisions with a clear eye on long\-term maintainability
• Cost Consciousness

What We're Looking For Must Have

• 7–8 years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or staff\-level role
• Strong command of TypeScript/Node.js in production (our primary stack)
• Deep understanding of multi\-tenant SaaS architecture patterns
• Hands\-on experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), ORM usage (TypeORM or similar), and writing efficient queries at scale
• Experience designing and operating async/event\-driven systems (message queues, workflow engines, or similar)
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and cost/performance monitoring
• Strong pull request review discipline — you know what makes a good review and what makes a bad one

Strong Plus

• Experience with real\-time systems (WebSockets, Socket.IO, pub/sub patterns)
• Exposure to LLM integration, RAG pipelines, or AI feature development in production
• Experience with Temporal.io or similar workflow orchestration
• Familiarity with WhatsApp Business API, omnichannel messaging, or e\-commerce integrations
• Prior experience at a startup in the 10–100 person range where you had to set standards, not just follow them

What We Don't Need

• Someone who needs a perfectly defined problem before they can start
• A pure IC who avoids people and process
• A pure manager who's lost touch with the code
• Someone who optimises for their own comfort over team outcomes

How You Think

• You ask "why does this fail in production?" before asking "why didn't someone write a test?"
• You think about the developer who reads your code six months from now
• You're bothered by silent failures, swallowed errors, and fire\-and\-forget async calls
• You believe good documentation and clear naming are not optional extras
• You have opinions on architecture but hold them loosely when presented with better evidence
• You understand that a cost spike is an engineering problem, not just a finance problem

You treat a customer\-facing bug with more urgency than a refactor that only benefits the team

• *What You'll Walk Into We'll Be Transparent With You*** A production codebase with real technical debt alongside genuinely good architecture
• A fast\-moving team that ships frequently
• A company that takes reliability seriously but is still building the culture around it
• Multiple backend services that need to be held together with clear ownership and standards
• A product that's expanding into AI agents, voice workflows, and deeper e\-commerce automation — meaning the technical surface area is growing fast

This is a role for someone who thrives in that kind of environment — not someone who needs it to be clean before they can contribute.

What We Offer

• Meaningful ownership — you'll shape how engineering works here, not just execute someone else's vision
• Direct access to founders and product decisions
• Competitive compensation (cash \+ equity discussion based on profile)
• A product that real businesses depend on every day — your work matters immediately

Skills:\- Javascript, NodeJS (Node.js) and TypeScript