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Product Engineering Lead

Secfix
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · EMEA, Germany, UK
Experience
Senior · 8+ years

Job description

Technical lead and hands-on senior/staff engineer at Secfix who owns technical decisions, ships weekly, and grows into engineering management as the team scales. The role focuses on speed, quality, hiring, and AI-assisted development.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · EMEA, Germany, UK

What you'll do

  • Ship a meaningful feature with AI alongside the team in month 1
  • Make the team faster by fixing tooling, review and testing, or work allocation
  • Start pairing and doing technical 1:1s with two or three engineers
  • Take over technical interviews and build a hiring process that runs without the CTO's oversight
  • Design technical challenges, run screens, and make hiring calls
  • Own how the team builds: testing, code and security review, team organisation, and who we hire next
  • Ship every week and own specs, architecture, and reviews on the biggest projects
  • Refine software development processes to keep cycle time from spec to production low
  • Improve how engineers test and automate, review code and security changes, and maintain the zero-bug policy
  • Take on 1:1s, growth conversations, and eventually managing the team
  • Keep pushing the team's use of encoded AI skills and rules in engineering and management work

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years as a software engineer at senior or staff level, including 1+ years as a tech lead (formal or de facto) for a team of 3+
  • Shipped AI features to production — retrieval, RAG, agentic workflows — and knows the difference between a demo that works and one that holds up on real customer data
  • Product taste: a keen sense for what makes a product feel great, and the habit of saying so when it doesn't
  • Built and shipped with Claude Code and Cursor in real production work, with opinions about where AI helps and where it quietly creates debt
  • Leads system design, not just contributes: writes the spec, owns the architecture, and drives it to production
  • Strong OOP fundamentals; Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, or equivalent
  • Relational database design and SQL optimisation
  • Experience interviewing engineering candidates
  • Built something zero to one at a startup, or scaled a team through the messy middle
  • Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST). EMEA-based, ideally Germany or UK
  • Has led a team technically and made it ship faster
  • Knows what great engineers look like and can spot one in a single interview
  • Exceptional IC track record as a senior or staff engineer whose code and designs others build on
  • Holds people to a high standard and is comfortable giving direct feedback
  • Hands-on with AI-assisted development
  • Has worked in startups
  • Communicates proactively in writing

Nice to have

  • Some people management and technical interviewing experience
  • Designed a technical interview process from scratch
  • Previous experience at a fully remote company

Your team

Engineering

8 engineers and 2 product designers today, planning to be around 16 within 12 months

Benefits

  • 100% remote with a real virtual office in Gather
  • Competitive salary benchmarked to European market rates
  • Generous equity package
  • €1,000/year development budget
  • Remote workspace support + co-working access
  • 26 days holidays + local public holidays
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Annual retreat

How to get hired

  1. 130 min — Intro call with our talent team
  2. 245 min — Interview with Grigory
  3. 360 min — Technical interview
  4. 41.5 hr — AI-assisted build session: system design for a real feature, then building part of it with AI
  5. 52 hr — Leadership session with the founders

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About Secfix

Security compliance systems for teams and agents

Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs. Its platform integrates with a company's full tech stack — AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, GCP, and more — automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification in weeks instead of months.

Mission

Building security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort

Key facts

  • Security compliance software
  • Over 1.78 million SMBs in Europe need to comply with security frameworks such as ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, and SOC 2
  • Fastest customer was certified in 4 weeks instead of the industry-standard 12+ months
  • Raised €17M in total (€12M Series A)
  • On a profitable trajectory, growing fast
  • New AI product (CISO AI) is just getting started
  • Category leader in Europe

Partners & customers

Alstin CapitalNeosfer (Commerzbank)Bayern Capital

What they value

  • Speed
  • Taste
  • Quality as identity
  • Zero-bugs
  • Focus is sacred
  • Small, temporary teams
  • AI is already part of the craft
  • Build what customers need, not what they ask for