Lemon.io
Head of Engineering
1mo ago
WorldwideLeadai/mlteam leadershiptechnical roadmapengineering managementproduct development
Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace connecting senior engineers with companies. The Head of Engineering will lead the transition from a service-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform, owning the technical roadmap and engineering team.
About the company
- 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.
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
- 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.
Other
- Product-minded, business-first
- Obsessed with simplicity
- First principles thinker
- Fast. Bias toward action
Conditions
- 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.