Head of Engineering

Skills
Mobile Application DevelopmentConsumerEngineeringEventsLead GenerationManagementNetworking
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Prior 0→1 or 1→10 experience at a consumer mobile social marketplace community events or networking product
  • Strong hands-on software engineering background with ability to contribute technically and evaluate architecture and code quality
  • Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products with large user bases
  • Strong product instincts around onboarding activation retention social mechanics recommendations and growth loops
  • Experience leading engineering teams and working closely with product design data and growth
  • Strong technical judgment across mobile backend data infrastructure AI/ML integrations security and scalability
  • Ability to move quickly make pragmatic tradeoffs and operate in an ambitious early-stage environment
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical decisions into business and product impact

Nice to have

  • Hands-on builder
  • Product-minded
  • Pragmatic
  • Fast-moving
  • Ambitious
  • Strong communicator

Day to day

  • Own the technical vision and architecture for Clockout’s mobile-first consumer platform
  • Lead engineering execution across matching recommendations messaging clubs events payments notifications and personalization
  • Work closely with the CEO on product strategy prioritization experimentation and growth while improving velocity and scalability