Head of Engineering
- Compensation
- $200K–$250K / yr
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years building software, with at least 2–3 years leading engineers directly — and you are still writing and reviewing code today
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud architecture
- Demonstrable recent technical depth: you can walk us through an architecture you designed, a production incident you personally diagnosed, and a technical decision you got wrong and corrected
- Track record of maintaining predictable quality and delivery, with specifics on how you managed it and what it cost
- Experience leading a distributed team, holding quality and communication together across time zones
- Fluency with modern AI-assisted development, plus a real point of view on where agent-generated code needs human scrutiny and where it does not
- Comfortable in a growing startup environment where capacity and capabilities are being defined, refined, and operationalized.
- Strong internal and external communication skills; written, calls, in-person engagements.
Nice to have
- Experience at an early-to-mid-stage startup
- Experience in GovTech, public-sector SaaS, or another regulated, audited environment (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA)
- Experience building or scaling an offshore engineering function
- Based in San Francisco Bay Area or Washington DC
Full description
ABOUT AUTHORIUM
Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company transforming how government agencies manage administrative operations. Our platform replaces fragmented document management solutions and decades-old legacy systems with a unified user interaction and data layer that manages billions of dollars in public funds; serving state, local, and federal agencies that in turn support millions of citizens and businesses. Authorium sits at the intersection of modernization, public service, and technology innovation like AI-enabled workflows. Our team moves fast, collaborates across teams, and builds for impact.
ABOUT THE HEAD OF ENGINEERING ROLE
We are hiring a Head of Engineering to build and grow the team that builds the platform that state and local governments use to manage their complex workflows such as procurement, contract management, and grant management.
This senior engineering seat reports directly to the executive leadership. The Head of Engineering is a builder and a leader: owning the team, the technical execution, and executing with excellence on behalf of our customers. Authorium’s engineering team is small, but mighty and growing. We are looking for a leader that can get directly engaged in the work of the engineering team, directly execute key initiatives, and provide guidance and direction for the team.
You will work collaboratively across both on-shore and off-shore engineering squads to deliver a platform experience that is highly secure, meets some of the most stringent compliance requirements, and provides an excellent user experience to our customers and their stakeholders. Our customers are government agencies with real procurement deadlines, real compliance obligations, and limited tolerance for downtime. This is mission-critical software delivery and important work is tied to its reliability, performance, and experience.
WHAT YOU'LL OWNHands-On Technical Contribution: You are comfortable in the codebase. You are able to take work yourself rather vs. only routing it. You personally investigate complex, ambiguous problems before deciding how to tackle them with the team. You are a technical mentor to the engineering teams you work with.
Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and grow a small blended team of full-time engineers, contractors, and an offshore agency partner across multiple time zones. Run 1:1s and career coaching, set clear expectations, manage capacity, and build a culture of collaboration and ownership and excitement around delivery.
Delivery Accountability: Own what engineering commits to and whether it lands. Set priorities, unblock the team, set realistic dates, surface slippage before it becomes a customer conversation, and course-correct in the open. Delivery predictability is the metric that matters most in your first year.