Head Of Product Engineering

November 8, 2026

Office

Head

Lisboa, Portugal

Indeed

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Office-only work

Description

Head of Product Engineering role with end-to-end ownership of product and engineering, from roadmap decisions with the CEO to shipping production code every day. The hire starts as a hands-on full-stack builder across the customer platform, internal tools and the AI-native operating system, then grows into leading and hiring engineers as the company scales. The product helps companies monitor and control their visibility in AI search with custom AI agents and SEO/AEO experts, reaching $1.4M ARR in 14 months. The culture is high-performance and demanding, with meaningful equity and founder-level compensation.

Responsibilities

Decide what to build and own the roadmap with the CEO
Talk to customers and strategists weekly to find slow, manual or unclear work
Turn services into software: convert what experts do by hand into product
Measure what you ship: usage, time saved, customer results and revenue; fix what fails
Build the customer platform to monitor and grow visibility in Google and AI search
Develop internal tools for account research, customer delivery, reporting and sales
Build the AI-native operating system: agents, skills and workflows for research, delivery, sales and operations
Ship end to end: data, backend, frontend and AI all the way to production
Set the bar for speed, quality and how AI is used to write and run software
Work with three engineers daily on architecture, code reviews and priorities
Hire the next engineers when needed and keep the team lean
Make the platform faster, more reliable and easier to build on

Requirements

Strong product builder who has taken products from idea to real users
End-to-end product ownership: deciding, building, launching and measuring what ships
Strong full-stack engineering across data, backend, frontend and LLMs with weekly production code
AI-native: builds with AI coding agents daily and designs products where AI does real work
Passion for search: SEO, AI search and tools to win on Google and ChatGPT
Ideally a background in growth and go-to-market, working closely with sales and marketing
Product taste: cares how the product feels and knows when it is ready to ship
Wants to lead by example and grow into leading a small exceptional team
Experience working on an SEO, AI search, marketing or GTM product (bonus)
Founder experience or early engineer at a startup that scaled (bonus)
Has built agents or internal tools that changed how a company works (bonus)
Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Postgres, Google Cloud, LLMs, Claude Code and Cursor

Conditions

High-performance environment that moves fast and expects exceptional results
Flexible hours driven by passion and commitments to deliver on goals
Constant evolution of technology, strategies and processes requiring adaptability
Direct and honest communication with candid, straightforward feedback
Founder-level ownership with a life-changing stock option package, 4-year vest and 1-year cliff
Competitive early-stage salary that scales significantly with future funding and revenue
Real hubs in Lisbon and New York designed for deep work and iteration
Yearly team retreats to amazing locations to build and celebrate wins
Company covers travel to the most important industry conferences
Travel to meet customers firsthand for firsthand empathy
Top-tier medical health coverage for the employee
Brand-new fully-loaded MacBook of choice and any other needed hardware
Flexible time off and parental leave for new parents
Full-time employment