Responsibilities

Hands-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.
Technical Execution & Architecture: Own architecture and technical-debt decisions inside the platform and interface with security and compliance leaders. Create documented plans that acknowledge tradeoffs and guide executive decisionmaking. Be a critical member of the leadership team driving Authorium’s platform vision forward.
Engineering Quality: Set the standard. Own code review norms, testing expectations, deployment safety, and the delivery and reliability metrics the team is measured against.
Production Reliability & Security: Own uptime, incident response, and on-call structure. Partner with InfoSec and Compliance on the security and compliance posture our customers audit us against, including public-sector requirements as we expand.
AI-Native Engineering Practice: Champion tools like Claude and Cursor across the team to remove toil and create leverage. Define where agents are trusted, where their output is reviewed, what quality bar applies to agent-produced code, and how we measure output.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Work directly with Product, Delivery/Implementation, Customer Experience, and Solutions. Translate business priorities into scoped, sequenced engineering plans, and engineering constraints into language non-technical colleagues and government customers can act on. Expect to be in front of customers when it matters.
Hiring: Interview, assess, and help set the technical bar for engineering hires. Plan, forecast, and manage team capacity.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
First 30 Days: Learn the codebase and the customer business case — ship something real with support from the team. Get to know the architecture, the fragile parts, the open incidents, and every person on the team. You have a clear-eyed read on where delivery actually stands.
First 90 Days: Delivery commitments are yours and they are being met and/or negotiated. The team's operating cadence — planning, review, on-call, incident response — is understood and running. Documented execution plans against capacity and priorities are the norm.

Head of Engineering at Authorium · LumiJobs

Head of Engineering

Responsibilities

Qualification

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Preferred

Benefits

Company

Authorium

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