Job Details

Portex is seeking an exceptional and highly driven Head of Engineering with a strong backend focus to join our team. This role will be a key partner to the CEO, instrumental in driving the technical vision and architecture of our platform as we rapidly scale. You will have a huge impact, getting in on the ground floor and playing a defining role in our future success. You will be a leader and you will actively code every day for the foreseeable future.

About the role

Portex is seeking an exceptional and highly driven Head of Engineering with a strong backend focus to join our team. This role will be a key partner to the CEO, instrumental in driving the technical vision and architecture of our platform as we rapidly scale. You will have a huge impact, getting in on the ground floor and playing a defining role in our future success. You will be a leader and you will actively code every day for the foreseeable future.

What you'll do

• Partner directly with the CEO to advocate for the engineering team and act as a thought partner on product strategy
• Work closely with Product and customers to deeply understand requirements and ensure problems are solved at the right level, drawing on your highly customer-centric approach
• Plan and execute complex code migrations while managing ongoing customer demands
• Envision and execute on the long-term vision for the platform's architecture
• Build end-to-end SaaS features across the full tech stack with a focus on the backend
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical mentorship to other engineers
• Co-lead retrospectives with Product to drive continuous improvement across the eng team
• Estimate work, set release targets, and lead standups / sprint planning to deliver against dates
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while assessing priorities through prioritization skills
• Manage team members and lead recruiting efforts for future team members

Qualifications

• Proven track record of building new products from the ground up (0 to 1)
• Experience working directly with and gathering insights from non-technical stakeholders
• Natural leadership abilities with an instinct to step up, solve problems, and push those around you to level up
• Exceptional communication skills to paint a vision, provide proactive updates, and escalate issues
• Comfortable negotiating product roadmaps against business requirements
• Entrepreneurial, extremely proactive mindset obsessed with building a company / startup
• High emotional stability to keep a level head under stress
• Internally motivated and driven to an exceptionally high personal bar
• Open to flexing into informal Product Management responsibilities when needed
• Able to prioritize and do deep work across multiple critical tasks / projects
• Experience implementing AI or LLM's into B2B workflows

Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in Typescript, Node.js, architecting full-stack TypeScript apps
• Solid skills with React, PostgreSQL, Redux, Prisma (nice to have)
• Experience implementing & driving engineering culture / best practices