Head of Engineering at Roamtech

What You will Do

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and coach multiple Engineering Team Leads.
• Act as a technical authority and escalation point across teams.
• Lead by example through hands-on involvement in architecture, design, and critical implementations.
• Build a strong engineering culture grounded in ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.

Architecture & Technical Excellence

• Own and evolve Roamtech’s engineering architecture strategy together with the Head of Architecture.
• Design, review, and guide implementation of event-driven systems, including Event Sourcing.
• Champion Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, and clear domain ownership.
• Enforce and evolve modern architectural patterns: Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, SOA, EDA, and distributed systems best practices.
• Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, observable, and secure.
• Implement a state-of-the-art monitoring system across all products and codebases to ensure proactive incident recognition and detection.

Processes, Practices & Standards

• Design and continuously improve engineering processes across teams.
• Establish clear standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
• Balance speed and quality in a startup-like environment without compromising long-term maintainability.
• Drive consistent, high-quality execution across teams while enabling autonomy.
• Work closely with the Head of Product to ensure timely delivery of the committed roadmap.
• Work together with Business Owners of the individual products to manage challenges and execution.

Execution & Collaboration

• Partner closely with the CTO, Head of Product, and other stakeholders on strategy and delivery.
• Support roadmap planning and ensure engineering execution aligns with product and business goals.
• Help teams navigate trade-offs between delivery, quality, and technical debt.

What We are Looking For

Required

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Multi year background at Staff or Principal Engineer level prior to or alongside leadership roles.
• Deep, hands-on experience designing and building event-driven systems, including Event Sourcing.
• Proven expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and complex domain modeling.
• Strong experience with Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and modern distributed system design.
• Cloud-native experience (GCP strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable engineering processes across multiple teams.
• Experience leading and coaching Engineering Team Leads.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across the organization.