Lemon.io is a profitable, growing talent marketplace that connects vetted senior engineers with companies that need them. In this role you'll own engineering: lead a growing team, make critical architecture and prioritization decisions, and be directly accountable for the speed and quality of what's shipped. This is not a management-layer role — it's hands-on, deeply involved in product decisions, working side by side with the founder.
Stack
Responsibilities
- ▹Own the technical roadmap and ensure every engineering effort maps directly to business impact
- ▹Lead and grow an engineering team that ships fast, iterates constantly, and treats complexity as a cost
- ▹Tackle the hard, multi-layered problems: automated vetting, intelligent matching at scale, demand-side bottlenecks
- ▹Make hard prioritization calls: decide what to build, what to skip, and what to kill
- ▹Work directly with the founder and product team to define success before writing a single line of code
- ▹Build the engineering culture: high ownership, high speed, low bureaucracy
Requirements
- ▹Led engineering teams (5-30+ people) at a startup or high-growth company
- ▹Hands-on experience with modern stacks
- ▹Comfortable with AI/ML tooling
- ▹Experience working in a distributed, async-first team
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Profitable and growing, with no fundraising pressure and real business fundamentals
- ▹A pivotal moment: you're not maintaining an engine, you're building one
- ▹A wide-open product roadmap
- ▹Direct access to the founder with no layers — your decisions ship
- ▹A team of 60 people who move fast and care deeply
About the company
Lemon.io is a 10-year-old, profitable talent marketplace with 60 people across Ukraine, Europe, Canada, and the US, processing over $16M in annual GMV. It compresses the traditional 2-5 week hiring timeline down to 24-48 hours through pre-vetted developers, and is now transitioning from a services-driven marketplace to a technology-driven platform.