Lead Growth Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Lead, build, and mentor a high-performing team focused on growth engineering.

• Establish standards for execution speed, testing thoroughness, and code quality.

• Design, scale, and maintain experimentation infrastructure, which includes feature flagging, cohort targeting, dynamic personalization, and multi-armed bandit systems.

• Drive initiatives that span the entire funnel across web and mobile platforms to enhance member acquisition, onboarding completion, subscription conversions, and retention loops.

• Collaborate with Data Science to implement event instrumentation and data pipelines for precise attribution, funnel telemetry, and statistically valid experiment outcomes.

• Work alongside Product, Design, and Marketing leadership to convert business goals into technical roadmaps and experimentation cycles.

• Advocate for data-driven decision-making, rapid iteration, and practical trade-offs between speed to market and long-term architectural needs.

• Guarantee system performance, data consistency, and recovery from failures across essential growth touchpoints and checkout processes.

• Lead the integration of AI tools within engineering workflows, ensuring security, accuracy, and maintainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in building and managing production services at scale, with extensive technical knowledge in TypeScript and contemporary web/mobile architectures.

• Previous leadership experience in hiring, managing, or technically guiding growth engineering teams in dynamic product environments.

• Proficiency in experimentation engines, feature flag management, event telemetry, and comprehensive funnel analytics.

• Strong business insight and understanding of key metrics such as CAC, LTV, activation velocity, conversion rates, and cohort retention.

• Robust foundations in API design, relational databases, data modeling, asynchronous processing, and automated testing.

• Capability to convert commercial objectives into practical technical solutions while maintaining a balance between speed and system reliability.

• Outstanding communication and cross-functional leadership abilities involving executive, technical, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven proficiency as a Builder (Level 2) or Integrator (Level 3) in AI, with hands-on experience integrating AI tools into team workflows.

• Proficient in English, both written and spoken.

• Nice to have: experience with consumer subscription models, payment integrations, or scaling entitlement architectures.

• Nice to have: familiarity with ML-driven personalization, recommendation systems, or automated lifecycle messaging platforms.

• Nice to have: experience with Go, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and event-driven architectures.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment.

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Professional development opportunities and support for continued learning.

• Flexible working conditions promoting a healthy work-life balance.