About the Role

We are looking for a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative leader to serve as the Director/VP of Software. As the CTO’s right hand, you will own product development across the full stack—from the Go back-end and Rust parsing layer to the Vue/TypeScript front-end.

This is a genuine hands-on role; you are expected to operate as an individual contributor approximately 40% of the time, participating in code reviews, subbing in for engineers, and driving architecture discussions.

The Coimpany and Traction
We are the "GitHub for hardware engineers," bringing software-style workflows to electronics development.

• Funding & Growth: Recently raised $25M in total funding (Series A) and is rapidly scaling the organization.
• Market Traction: Already serving major customers including Meta, Cisco, Bose, and Merck.
• The Team: A high-caliber team of 30 employees, with plans to double the engineering team by year-end.

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Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Architecture

• Own the product development roadmap in partnership with the CTO and Product Management.
   
• Translate business goals and customer needs into clear technical plans.
   
• Balance speed, scalability, and technical quality through strategic build-vs-buy decisions.

People Management & Team Building

• Oversee and mentor ~5 technical team leads, fostering a culture of ownership.
   
• Manage the hiring, development, and retention of engineering talent as the org scales.
   
• Create growth paths for both individual contributors and managers.

Hands-on Engineering (40% of time)

• Engage in code reviews, prototyping, and debugging complex problems.
   
• Drive end-to-end web performance analysis (e.g., rendering complex CAD documents with 100k+ elements).
   
• Lead the development of specialized projects like a 3D rendering engine for PCBs.

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Candidate Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Leadership: Ideally has experience leading organizations of 15+ engineers total.
• Tech Stack: Deep experience with Go, Rust, and Vue/TypeScript.
• Startup DNA: Experience at a growth-stage startup (Series A–B) is preferred over exclusive enterprise backgrounds.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in C.S. or an equivalent technical field.
• Domain Knowledge: Background in DevOps, developer infra, or hardware-adjacent domains (IoT/Embedded) is a plus.
• Citizenship: US/Canada residency and authorization required; US citizenship is a plus due to ITAR-regulated customers.

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Tech Stack

• Languages: Go, Rust, TypeScript.
• Front-end: Vue, SVG, CSS Selectors.
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CI/CD pipelines.