Head of Engineering
LimeFlight
WorldwideremotePosted 22 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Fully remote, mission-driven team
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering required
- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience required
- Dynamic, inclusive company culture
- 2 annual one-week team events
- Equal opportunity employer
Role overview
Join our fully remote, mission-driven team dedicated to pioneering sustainable inflight service management. Work on innovative technology solutions with global impact, collaborate within a diverse, international environment, and continuously enhance your skills through ongoing learning opportunities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland with team members across 11 countries, we offer a dynamic and engaging company culture that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and inclusion. We’re still founder‐led, moving fast, and now entering a phase where engineering needs to scale in a structured, predictable, and sustainable way. As Head of Engineering, you’ll be at the heart of the team contributing to a zero-waste future by drastically reducing food waste, fuel consumption, costs, and CO2 emissions in the airline industry. This role exists to turn a strong group of engineers into a scalable engineering organization, building structures, leadership layers, and delivery discipline to support continued growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the engineering organization with a strong focus on people leadership, organizational structure, and delivery predictability.
- Own engineering delivery at an organizational level, including capacity planning, prioritization, roadmap feasibility, and dependency management across multiple initiatives and projects.
- Directly manage and develop engineering leadership (Tech Leads and QA Leads), and evolve the management and ownership model as the organization grows.
- Work closely with the Head of Technology, Product, and leadership to translate business priorities into clear, realistic engineering plans and trade-offs.
- Set clear standards together with teams for architecture, quality, reliability, and security, and ensure teams can execute against them independently.
- Be accountable for overall service reliability by ensuring appropriate ownership, escalation paths, and continuous improvement practices are in place.
- Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development to support sustainable team growth.
- Build and introduce the next layer of engineering capabilities beyond feature teams, including areas such as architecture, security, compliance (e.g. ISO or SOC 2 certification), and platform concerns.
- Strengthen engineering processes, decision-making, and accountability to reduce reliance on individuals and founders.
- Foster a culture of clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement as the organization scales.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including hands-on experience building and operating production web-based systems.
- 4+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles (e.g. Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering, Tech Lead with people management responsibility), with ownership over people, delivery, and planning.
- Strong background in delivery leadership, planning, and prioritization in SaaS or product‐focused environments.
- Experience leading senior engineers or technical leads and helping them grow into broader leadership roles.
- Experience working closely with founders or executive leadership during a scaling phase.
- Financial and headcount planning experience within an engineering organization.
- Strong communication skills across technical and non‐technical stakeholders.
- Good understanding of security fundamentals and secure software delivery.
- Min. English C1
Nice to have
- Experience in compliance‐minded or regulated environments (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2).
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or data platforms.
- Experience with Frontend technologies like Angular and Typescript
- Experience in B2B SaaS, remote‐first teams, or operationally intensive domains.
- Experience with AI tools supporting the SDLC process
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment
- Ongoing learning opportunities
- Dynamic and engaging company culture that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and inclusion
- Mission-driven work with global impact in sustainable aviation
Additional details
- Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland with team members across 11 countries
- Still founder‐led, moving fast, and entering a scaling phase
- Expected travel needs: 2 annual one-week team events
- Tech Stack: C# (.NET 8–10), ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Blob Storage, Azure App Services & Functions, Docker, Azure Service Bus, Terraform, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, extensive unit & integration tests, Angular Latest Version, Databricks and Azure Fabric
- Hiring Process: Recruiter Screen (45 mins), Interview with the Hiring Manager (1 hour), Technical interview (1 hour), Management Leadership Interview (1 hour), Discussion with founder(s) and peer(s) (1 hour)
- LimeFlight is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background can thrive and do their best work.
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