Head of Engineering

🕒 September 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Authorium

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $8M Series A on 2025-05

Government • SaaS • Enterprise

Authorium is a public benefit company that provides a modular, configurable SaaS platform built exclusively for government to transform documents and data into operational value and to connect the flow of public funds across mission-critical functions. Its platform supports procurement, contract lifecycle management, grants management, budget requests, and legislative analysis, using AI-empowered and human-led approaches (trained on 15+ million government documents). Authorium emphasizes accelerating time-to-value, reducing acquisition timelines, and improving transparency and compliance for state, local, and federal agencies; it reports more than $50 billion in government projects managed on its platform and has been named to the GovTech 100.

📋 Description

• Build and grow the engineering team for a government workflow platform • Own the engineering team, technical execution, and delivery accountability • Contribute hands-on in the codebase and investigate complex technical problems • Lead, coach, and grow full-time engineers, contractors, and an offshore agency partner • Run 1:1s and career coaching, set expectations, manage capacity, and build team culture • Set priorities, unblock the team, manage delivery commitments, and course-correct when needed • Own platform architecture and technical-debt decisions • Create documented technical and execution plans and communicate tradeoffs to executives • Set standards for code reviews, testing, deployment safety, delivery, and reliability metrics • Own uptime, incident response, and on-call structure • Partner with InfoSec and Compliance on security and compliance posture • Champion AI-assisted engineering tools and define governance for agent-generated code • Partner with Product, Delivery/Implementation, Customer Experience, and Solutions • Translate business priorities into engineering plans and technical constraints into actionable language • Participate in customer engagements when needed • Interview engineering candidates and help set the technical hiring bar • Plan, forecast, and manage team capacity

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building software, with at least 2–3 years leading engineers directly • Still writing and reviewing code today • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud architecture • Demonstrable recent technical depth, including architecture design, production incident diagnosis, and correcting technical decisions • Track record of maintaining predictable quality and delivery • Experience leading a distributed team across time zones • Fluency with modern AI-assisted development • Comfortable in a growing startup environment • Strong internal and external communication skills • Experience at an early-to-mid-stage startup (bonus) • Experience in GovTech, public-sector SaaS, or another regulated, audited environment (bonus) • Experience building or scaling an offshore engineering function (bonus) • Based in San Francisco Bay Area or Washington DC (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options (details at offer stage) • 100% benefits coverage for employee • 401K Profit Share plan • Flexible PTO • Home office stipend • Comprehensive wellness benefits • Commuter stipend for hybrid roles • Direct executive engagement, real proximity and support for company decision making • Genuine ownership of the platform's technical execution and the shape and direction of the team that builds it • Experience working for a mission-forward organization, operating as a public benefit corporation with a mission to support the critical work of government

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