Dex
Head of Engineering
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About the Role
This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.
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The Role
This Series A company builds an open-source analytics platform. They help data teams manage metrics as code, turning a dbt project into a full BI solution. The result: everyone in the business gets self-serve analytics. They're backed by leading investors and growing fast.
You'll lead a dozen engineers, working alongside the CTO. This isn't a pure management role; you'll still be hands-on, shipping code. Your mandate is velocity: coaching, unblocking, making quick architecture and security calls. You'll own developer experience and tooling, setting the pace for the entire team. Expect to ship fast, learn faster, and own reliability in public.
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The Work
- Coach and unblock engineers daily, fostering extreme team velocity.
- Make rapid architecture and security decisions that cut complexity, not add process.
- Own the developer experience, tooling, and workflows that define how fast the team can move.
- Stay hands-on, contributing code and driving product delivery in an open-source environment.
- Own reliability and SLAs, balancing trust with a mandate for rapid iteration and shipping.
What You Bring
- You've led engineers in a fast-moving startup or scaleup, as a Head of Engineering, EM, founder, or tech lead, and you've stayed hands-on.
- You've taken a product from 0 to 1 or through hyper-growth, making imperfect decisions quickly.
- You have strong architecture instincts and solid security knowledge, using them to cut complexity.
- You treat developer experience as the main lever on team speed, and you've built the tooling and workflows that prove it.
- You own monitoring, observability, and performance as part of shipping fast, not as a later cleanup.
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Why Apply Through Dex
This Head of Engineering role is rare: hands-on, high velocity, and building an open-source product. Dex helps you cut through the noise of a competitive market to find opportunities like this, without cold-applying. Sign up once, get matched to this role and others like it, and receive a full brief before any interviews. It's how you find the roles that aren't advertised everywhere.
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