3+ years in leadership roles within multi-team organizations
Proven experience scaling engineering organizations in data-intensive vertical AI
Strong technical background in full-stack development, ETL, AI, and distributed systems
Experience building inclusive and high-performance team cultures
Responsibilities
Define the technical vision and execution strategy aligning with company goals
Balance shipping speed and product quality through effective processes
Recruit, onboard, and manage a diverse engineering team
Nurture a collaborative engineering culture
Engage in hands-on coding and reviewing key pull requests
Benefits
Competitive equity compensation
401(k) matching
Health, Dental and Vision insurance
Paid company holidays and PTO
Hybrid work schedule, approximately 3 days in office per week in Brooklyn
Full Job Description
Paces is growing rapidly and looking for a Head of Engineering, reporting to our CTO and Co-Founder. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will lead and scale our engineering team, nurture our builder culture, impact product direction and roadmap, write code, and review PRs.
What You'll Achieve
Technical Vision: Define technical vision and execution strategy that align with company goals.
Execution Excellence: Balance between shipping speed and product quality; define lightweight but effective processes that work for both our software and vertical AI teams.
Team Building: Recruit, onboard and manage a diverse team of ICs and TLMs; nurture our collaborative and high-velocity engineering culture.
Hands-On Execution: Stay at the cutting edge of AI coding; design systems, write code and review key PRs.
Requirements
10+ years of professional software-engineering experience, 3+ years managing and leading multi-team orgs in high-growth startups.
Proven record scaling engineering organization from 0 -> 1 -> N in data intensive, vertical AI companies.
Strong, versatile technical background, experienced with full-stack dev, ETL, AI and distributed systems.
A high degree of comfort digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
Track record building inclusive, high-performance cultures that attract and retain top talent.
About You
You will thrive in our culture if you:
Share our passion to build something that fights climate change.
Passion to work onsite along the team; comfortable juggling strategy and execution work.
Genuinely excited about difficult challenges in a fast growing organization.
Bonus Points
Former founder
Previous experience working with geospatial data
Previous experience working in climate or energy space
Compensation and Benefits
$230K - $290K annual compensation
Competitive equity compensation
401(k) matching
Health, Dental and Vision insurance
Paid company holidays & PTO
Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week
