Do you enjoy being close to the code, while knowing your greatest impact comes from strengthening the people and structure around it?
You鈥檝e seen what happens when engineering teams have momentum. Decisions are made close to the code. Deliveries are predictable. The team moves forward with confidence.
You鈥檝e also seen the opposite. And you know what makes the difference.
At Jobylon, you鈥檒l step into a role where your impact is visible across the entire product. You鈥檒l work closely with Alex , our CPO, and Niklas , our CTO, helping shape how engineering operates and creating the conditions for teams to deliver at a high, sustainable pace.
About the job
Jobylon is building a modern talent acquisition platform used by companies across Europe. As Director of Engineering, you鈥檒l take ownership of engineering delivery and execution, making sure the team can deliver consistently, with quality, and without unnecessary friction.
You鈥檒l lead an engineering organization of around 15 people, including an Engineering Manager and Tech Leads. Your focus is to strengthen this layer, helping them grow into confident leaders who make sound decisions and raise the level of the entire team.
You鈥檒l work closely with, and report to, Alex , our CPO, on priorities and planning, ensuring scope and timelines are realistic and that the team has the right conditions to succeed. At the same time, you鈥檒l collaborate with Niklas , our CTO, on technical direction, contributing your perspective from building and shipping the product day to day.
A key part of your role is improving how engineering operates. Strengthening ownership. Improving predictability. Finding better ways of working through modern tools and AI. Over time, this will be reflected in how the team makes decisions, collaborates, and delivers.
You鈥檒l stay hands-on enough to understand the system and support the team when needed. Not because you have to, but because it helps you lead with context and credibility.
You鈥檝e worked as a senior engineer and gradually taken on more responsibility for people, delivery, and technical direction. You鈥檙e comfortable moving between code, technical discussions, and leadership.
You have several years of experience as a backend or fullstack developer. **Python **and Django are familiar to you, and you鈥檝e likely worked with other technologies as well. You understand what it takes to build and operate systems that need to scale and evolve over time.
You鈥檝e led engineers, Tech Leads, or Engineering Managers, and helped them grow.
You have strong product instincts and care about building the right things, not just building things right.
You鈥檙e curious about AI and interested in how it can improve both engineering workflows and product development.
Our stack includes Python, Django, HTMX, JavaScript, modern frontend frameworks, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure. You don鈥檛 need experience with every part of it, but you鈥檙e comfortable working in a modern product environment.
Most importantly, you care about helping teams do their best work.