Where we are in our scale-up journey
We’ve achieved a solid product-market fit and are now scaling with intention. You’ll join a 50-strong team of Senior+ engineers and Product leaders who prioritise product impact over mere headcount. We have 8 cross-functional teams, including a dedicated Platform team focused on infra & developer experience. We started building proprietary ML before the LLM boom, so we don't just consume models - we train them from the ground up.
Our approach to engineering
- We prioritize customer needs first
- We work in small, cross-functional, feature-oriented teams
- We have flexibility in terms of the problems we work on
- We own the full lifecycle of our projects
- We avoid silos and encourage taking up tasks in new areas
- We balance quality and velocity
- We have a shared responsibility for our production code
- We each set our own routine to maximize our productivity
Your mission
You will be the first Head of Engineering at Mimica, leading our engineering organisation through its next major growth phase. With a recently closed Series B round and strong market traction, we are doubling the Product, Design & Engineering organisation from 50 to 100 over the coming year. This role exists to evolve engineering into a mature, high-velocity organisation capable of supporting 10x growth in usage. You will define the technical vision and North Star, introduce scalable processes and standards, and partner closely with the CTO, Product, and ML leaders.
Part of your day-to-day
- Introduce scalable engineering processes and practices while preserving a culture of strong ownership, psychological safety, and servant leadership.
- Define and evolve the Engineering Strategy and North Star to support 10x usage growth.
- Facilitate organisation-wide engineering planning and advance necessary investments in headcount, vendors, and infrastructure.
- Partner with the CTO and function leaders to develop strong product, business, and talent strategies.
- Align hiring strategy with organisational goals by improving procedures and forecasting talent needs.
- Improve cross-team collaboration by preventing silos and supporting coordination with Product.
- Drive the development and enablement of Engineering Managers through coaching and career progression support.
- Collaborate with Managers on establishing SDLC, QA practices, and SLOs.
- Enable teams to monitor engineering health and efficiency by tracking metrics and mitigating risks.
What we’re looking for
- Experience as Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or VP of Engineering in a scale-up growth story.
- Expertise in building processes that increase engineers' ownership in rapidly scaling organisations.
- Track record of coaching and developing managers and Senior+ Engineers.
- Strong understanding of how engineering decisions impact product, revenue, and go-to-market.
- Ability to translate business goals into technical priorities.
- Knowledge of modern scalable practices in data-intensive architectures, including distributed systems, cloud architecture, reliability engineering, CI/CD, and observability.
- Experience collaborating successfully in fully-remote working environments.