Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

Company: Lemon.io Location: Remote (LATAM, Europe, Central America) Contract: Permanent Seniority: Executive

About Lemon.io

Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace that connects vetted senior engineers with companies in need. With 10 years in business and a team of 60 across Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and the US, we process over $16 million in annual gross merchandise volume. We significantly shorten the traditional hiring timeline from weeks to 24-48 hours by providing a curated, pre-vetted supply of developers.

We are transforming the hiring process, which is currently broken and inefficient for recruiters. Our product aims to provide qualified, vetted candidates within 24 hours, eliminating the usual grind. This is a pivotal moment as we transition from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform, and we are seeking an engineering leader to drive this transformation.

About the Role

You will own engineering at Lemon.io. This is a hands-on role where you will lead a growing team of engineers, make critical architecture and prioritization decisions, and be directly accountable for the speed and quality of our product development. You will be deeply involved in product decisions, working side-by-side with the founder.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap, ensuring all engineering efforts directly contribute to business impact.
• Lead and grow an engineering team focused on rapid shipping, constant iteration, and efficient complexity management.
• Address complex challenges in automated vetting, intelligent matching at scale, and demand-side bottlenecks to identify key areas of leverage.
• Make critical prioritization decisions, determining what to build, skip, or discontinue.
• Collaborate directly with the founder and product team to define success metrics before development begins.
• Build a strong engineering culture characterized by high ownership, speed, and low bureaucracy.

Requirements

• Product-minded with a business-first approach.
• Obsessed with simplicity and a first-principles thinker.
• Demonstrated bias for action and speed.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams (5-30+ people) at a startup or high-growth company.
• Hands-on experience with modern technology stacks.
• Comfortable with AI/ML tooling.
• Experience working in a distributed, async-first team environment.

What We Offer

• Join a profitable and growing company with strong business fundamentals, free from fundraising pressures.
• Be part of a pivotal transformation, actively building a new engine rather than just maintaining an existing one, with a wide-open product roadmap.
• Direct access to the founder, with minimal layers and the ability to see your decisions ship quickly.
• The opportunity to solve a massive, unsolved problem in the recruitment industry by building a product that radically speeds up the process of finding qualified engineers.
• Become part of a dedicated team of 60 people who move fast, care deeply, and have navigated challenges together.