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Portugal 5w PTO

  • Lead the design and development of critical services, focusing on long-term, scalable, and sustainable solutions.
  • Define and evolve the technical vision for multiple teams, ensuring architectural consistency and alignment with product strategy.
  • Mentor engineering managers and tech leads, fostering a high-performing culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Java Ruby Go AWS PostgreSQL

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Portugal 5w PTO

  • Lead a talented, agile full-stack engineering team using cutting-edge technologies to solve edge cases on a global scale.
  • Provide technical guidance and career mentorship, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high performance.
  • Partner with Product, Operations, and Design leads to translate complex business requirements into technical roadmaps.

Wellhub revolutionizes workplace wellness by connecting employees to partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep. Headquartered in NYC with a global team, they value wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives to create real impact.

$178,400–$223,000/yr
United States

  • Define the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for FuzeRx's B2B and consumer platforms.
  • Lead by example by writing clean, optimized, and maintainable code for critical system components.
  • Act as a force multiplier across multiple agile squads, tackling complex distributed systems challenges.

Fuze Health puts patients first by digitally connecting them with care providers, health resources, and treatments, while enabling partners to enhance quality and outcomes. The company is a growing portfolio of industry leaders including LetsGetChecked, Truepill, and Alto Pharmacy, with a shared vision to deliver next-generation healthcare solutions.

$204,000–$226,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Set technical direction across multiple domains, owning complex work like greenfield service design and large refactors while producing clear documentation.
  • Act as a senior technical authority for security and compliance, partnering on SOC2, vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
  • Lead AI-native engineering practices, designing agentic workflows and coaching engineers to collaborate effectively with AI systems.

Pathstream reshapes how frontline employees and managers excel in their careers through enterprise partnerships, transforming teams from transactional to strategic. The company is a tight-knit, mission-driven team of ~60 employees scaling solutions to improve productivity and retention.

$250,000–$300,000/yr
US 2000w PTO

  • Define and execute the platform engineering vision, roadmap, and operating model.
  • Lead teams building enterprise-grade application platforms, agentic AI, integrations, and data infrastructure.
  • Build and manage organization across platform engineering, AI platform, and data engineering.

Firstup improves employee experience through an intelligent communication platform serving 40 Fortune 100 companies and over 17 million employees daily. The company fosters a high-growth, inclusive environment with a casual and remote-friendly culture.

$160,000–$183,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a pod of 4+ engineers, owning growth, performance, and roadmap, while championing AI-native engineering practices.
  • Drive technical direction and execution for broadly scoped initiatives, ensuring high quality and pragmatic trade-offs.
  • Embrace AI-enabled tools like Claude Code to coach your team and set a hands-on example for effective adoption.

Pathstream reshapes frontline employee careers through enterprise partnerships, transforming teams from transactional to strategic. They are a tight-knit, mission-driven team of ~60 employees scaling their solution across the United States.

UK Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines for the vulnerability intelligence platform.
  • Own services end-to-end including architecture, development, deployment, and operation.
  • Lead technical design discussions and contribute to system architecture decisions while mentoring junior engineers.

VulnCheck transforms vulnerability intelligence by helping security teams act faster with more confidence. Founded in 2021, the company has a transparent, collaborative, and supportive culture with a fast-growing team of experts.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the engineering team building a scalable, AI-driven, cloud-native Coordination of Benefits solution from the ground up.
  • Set technical direction, own architecture, and drive engineering standards for a new product and growing team.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, ML, UX, and operations to translate requirements into measurable outcomes.

Machinify is a healthcare intelligence company that delivers unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients using an AI-powered platform. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, we are constantly reimagining what's possible in our industry.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead, grow, and mentor a team of engineers, owning hiring, performance management, career development, and team health.
  • Own the Console end to end, including UI, observability, user management, and developer-experience features such as chunk-size optimization.
  • Set technical direction across a JavaScript and Go stack, balancing speed of delivery, polish, and long-term maintainability.

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, provides the fastest PostgreSQL platform for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads, trusted by over 2,000 customers across 25+ countries. Backed by $180 million from top-tier investors, the globally distributed, remote-first team emphasizes direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence.

$242,400–$303,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Own the technical roadmap and author system designs for scalable, secure, and operationally efficient card issuing and payment processing products.
  • Spend significant time in the codebase writing, reviewing, and optimizing code across the issuing and processing stack.
  • Identify and drive high-impact technical initiatives that improve performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of core processing engines.

Marqeta provides a modern card issuing and payment processing platform. As a publicly-traded company, we foster a culture of flexibility and innovation, with a focus on engineering excellence and collaboration.

$160,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Lead, coach, and grow a small team of engineers delivering clinical, operational, and patient-facing systems.
  • Guide architectural decisions and champion small-batch continuous delivery, feature flags, and AI-native development practices.
  • Partner cross-functionally to translate business and clinical needs into scalable, reliable, secure software.

Form Health is a virtual obesity medicine clinic delivering multi-disciplinary, evidence-based obesity treatment through telemedicine. Founded in 2019, it is a venture-backed startup with an experienced clinical and leadership team committed to patient-first care and an inclusive culture.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Oversee the AMER Technical Architecture team, managing complex implementations and strategic engagements across platform, AI, and security.
  • Coach senior technical talent to act as credible advisors focused on customer outcomes and consultative communication.
  • Develop repeatable delivery methods, templates, and standards while representing the practice in management discussions.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by over 50 million users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100. With an all-remote, asynchronous culture, GitLab empowers high-performance teams through transparency, iteration, and collaboration.

Canada US Unlimited PTO

  • Design and maintain scalable, secure software architectures aligned with business goals, ensuring robust and reliable systems.
  • Introduce and implement best practices around object-oriented design, domain-driven design, and microservices.
  • Use AI to streamline processes, reduce friction, and give time back to developers for meaningful work.

ZayZoon builds a financial empowerment platform helping businesses improve employee financial wellness through services like earned wage access. Recognized for growth in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500, they are a remote-first company with a Series B funding of nearly $50 million USD.

United States 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Lead product strategy across Infrastructure, Reliability, and Developer Productivity platforms.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to set technical roadmaps and drive developer velocity.
  • Build a strategy connecting internal engineering infrastructure with customer-facing infrastructure for enterprise scale.

Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences. It is a privately held company with a culture that values speed, quality, and customer trust.

$220,000–$258,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Set technical direction for the Athena clearing house, making architectural calls on data validation pipelines and workflow orchestration.
  • Scale the team and product area, driving transition from rapid prototyping to sustainable, production-grade product stack.
  • Lead design of systems processing unstructured vulnerability reports, deduplicating findings, and surfacing clean signals to remediation teams.

Chainguard secures the open source software supply chain, delivering hardened, production-ready builds of open source software. They are venture-backed by leading investors and serve Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.

Brazil

  • Evolve and maintain our Kubeflow, Feast, and Spark-on-Kubernetes ML infrastructure.
  • Design tools and APIs empowering teams to transition from centralized bottlenecks to self-service excellence.
  • Collaborate with Data Science teams to apply software engineering best practices to ML workflows.

Wellhub revolutionizes workplace wellness by connecting employees to partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members across the globe, we value wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives.

US

  • Build and lead a high-performance product engineering team focused on innovation, accountability, and reliability.
  • Develop scalable reliability, risk management, and operational governance capabilities for production systems.
  • Drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product teams to deliver long-term technical roadmap outcomes.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest. It is a publicly traded, remote-first company with competitive benefits and a culture focused on innovation and people.

$110,000–$220,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a product engineering team to deliver customer-facing features across Runpod’s console, APIs, and developer workflows.
  • Own technical architecture, execution, quality, and launch for a roadmap area, partnering with Product and Design.
  • Build and grow a strong team through hiring, mentoring, and fostering a culture of ownership and speed.

Runpod provides cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI and machine learning applications. Founded in 2022, it is a rapidly growing, well-funded remote-first company with a global team.

US

  • Lead technical architecture and engineering standards across customer-facing and operational systems.
  • Champion AI-assisted development, establishing best practices for LLMs in coding, testing, and workflows.
  • Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence through code quality, CI/CD, and operational reliability.

Koala Health aims to make managing your pet’s health simple and delightful, offering a pharmacy service for medications and supplements delivered in pre-sorted pouches. The company fosters a remote-first culture built on flexibility and trust, with a supportive, close-knit team that celebrates wins and learns fast.

$265,000–$265,000/yr
US

  • Lead the Shared Services engineering team to build and maintain core platform capabilities like authentication, authorization, and AI services.
  • Define the long-term vision and roadmap for shared services, driving adoption across engineering teams to improve developer productivity.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, ensure system reliability, and mentor engineers in a remote-first environment.

This company operates an AI-powered job matching platform connecting candidates with hiring companies. It is a high-growth partner-oriented organization focused on engineering culture and developer productivity.

$151,535–$189,418/yr
United States Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Lead platform engineering and technical strategy across diverse clients
  • Drive architecture, scalability, and AI integration in production systems
  • Mentor teams and influence client CTOs and executive decisions

8th Light is a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from startups to large enterprises to build durable software. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, it fosters a culture of continuous education, mentorship, and collaborative honesty.