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The Role

We’re looking for an Head of Engineering with experience building consumer apps across the stack to join our team. As the leader of the engineering team you'll collaborate directly with the head of product and lead the engineering teams to understand, build, and test new product features from conception to roll out. Every week you'll ship new experiences to hundreds of thousands of users and see the impact directly.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who wants to be at the ground floor of a generational social app. We’re a creative and fast-moving team that’s passionate about unlocking the full potential of technology to help LGBTQ+ people meet. If you are a product thinker and builder, and driven by connecting queer community, we’d love to work with you!

Who You Are

• You’re ready to get your hands dirty writing code and ship on a daily/weekly basis. You think quickly & collaboratively, and bring lots of creative ideas to consumer social apps.
• You’re an energetic, positive-thinker and comfortable adapting to change in a seed-stage startup environment. You push the team to meet company objectives.
• You’ll work closely with Head of Product, CEO, COO and the engineering team to make high-level architecture designs.
• You’re respectful, kind, and open to teammates ideas. You’re comfortable with change and want to do what is best for the team, product and company.
• You enjoy leading a small team towards building engaging, impactful consumer apps. You like to to drive good design and architecture, know how to execute complex projects, and love mentoring and training other developers.
• You’re highly capable of resolving complex issues in creative and effective ways and conduct in-depth evaluation of situations/data and present new solutions
• You’re familiar with current business and technology trends

What You'll Do

• You'll be leading the Lex Engineering team in designing, building, and ensuring the high quality of the Lex mobile app
• You’ll be managing, hiring and retaining engineering talent in a highly competitive market, we are a 100% remote team.
• You’ll communicate and implement best practices across the engineering team
• You’ll identify problems and provide solutions to issues across the product and team, and come prepared with Plan B, C, D as needed.
• You’ll navigate a rapidly changing market demands and incorporating feedback from users and stakeholders.

How we’ll be working together: