Fieldguide is hiring a
Head of Engineering

Summary

Fieldguide is seeking a Head of Engineering to join their team. This individual will manage multiple engineering teams, help with hiring, shape engineering processes, coach engineers, and lead education and training initiatives. The company values diversity and is looking for someone who shares their enthusiasm for building a great culture and product.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of total engineering experience, ideally with multiple years spent at B2B SaaS startups or growth-stage companies
• 3-5+ years of management experience, including managing multiple teams and managers
• Working on modern web tech stacks consisting of several of the following: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, NodeJS, Hasura, Redis, Postgres, and AWS. While you may not be coding every day, you should have technical expertise in several of these technologies
• Architecting systems and data pipelines that can handle the ingestion, digitalization, storage, and retrieval of document-heavy data sets, including document processing, search, classification, and LLMs
• DevOps and continuous integration/delivery best practices
• Information security best practices
• Collaborating on all aspects of product strategy and UX
• Helping to shape the direction of the tech stack, product, and engineering organization

Responsibilities

• Be directly responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of multiple engineering teams
• Build a trusting, inclusive, and high performance team that consistently executes on company goals and initiatives
• Coach and mentor engineers and managers as they grow in their careers
• Play a lead role in strategic planning for the engineering organization
• Build trusting relationships with product, design, other engineering teams, and key business stakeholders
• Lead education and training initiatives within and across teams, implementing standards, processes, documentation, and more that enables the entire engineering, product, and design organization to thrive
• Partner closely with recruiting teams and company leaders to improve our hiring processes, ensuring teams can hire the right talent as it scales

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
• Unlimited PTO
• Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
• 401k
• Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
• Flexible work schedules