Head of Engineering at Lemon.io: a hands-on leader for a company changing what it is

Lemon.io connects companies with vetted senior engineers. People search for roles like this as remote head of engineering jobs, and this is one. They want one person to own engineering. This is a leadership role, but they say it is not a management layer. You would be hands-on and work side by side with the founder.

About the company, in their words

Lemon.io says it is profitable and growing. It says it has been in business for 10 years and has 60 people across Ukraine, Europe, Canada and the US. It says it processes over $16M a year in GMV, which means the total value of work booked through the marketplace.

They say they cut the usual 2 to 5 weeks of hiring down to 24 to 48 hours. They are now moving from a service-led marketplace to a technology-led product, and the engineering leader is meant to drive that change.

The work

• Own the technical roadmap, and tie each piece of engineering to a business result.
• Lead and grow an engineering team.
• Work on hard problems they name: automated vetting of engineers, matching at scale, and bottlenecks on the customer side.
• Make the prioritisation calls: what to build, what to skip, what to stop.
• Work with the founder and the product team to define what success looks like before any code is written.
• Build the engineering culture they describe as high ownership, high speed and low bureaucracy.

What they ask for

• You have led engineering teams of 5 to 30 or more people at a start-up or fast-growing company.
• Hands-on experience with modern tech stacks, and comfort with AI and machine-learning tools.
• Experience in a distributed team that works asynchronously.
• The traits they list: product-minded and business-first, obsessed with simplicity, a first-principles thinker, fast, with a bias towards action.

Why they say you would want it

They point to a profitable company with no fundraising pressure, an open product roadmap, direct access to the founder, and a team that has “survived the hard years together”.

How to apply

The posting’s own text does not give an application address. Use the application link on the Remotive posting page.

What the posting does not say

• Pay, equity or any other reward.
• Where you may work from, and which time zone you would need to overlap with.
• Whether you would be an employee or a contractor, and who would employ you if you live outside their listed countries.
• How big the engineering team is today.
• How many steps the hiring process has.