Lead Growth Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and mentor an exceptional growth engineering team.

• Establish benchmarks for execution speed, testing rigor, and code quality.

• Design, scale, and manage experimentation infrastructure, including feature flagging, cohort targeting, dynamic personalization, and multi-armed bandit systems.

• Propel full-funnel engineering initiatives on 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 accurate attribution, funnel telemetry, and statistically valid experiment outcomes.

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing leadership to convert business objectives into technical roadmaps and experimentation cycles.

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

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven track record in building and operating production services at scale, with extensive technical knowledge in TypeScript and modern web/mobile architectures.

• Previous leadership experience in hiring, managing, or providing technical guidance to growth engineering teams within high-growth product settings.

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

• Strong business insight and fluency in metrics such as CAC, LTV, activation velocity, conversion rates, and cohort retention.

• Solid grounding in API design, relational databases, data modeling, asynchronous processing, and automated testing.

• Ability to convert commercial objectives into practical technical solutions while balancing speed and system reliability.

• Outstanding communication and cross-functional leadership abilities with both executive and non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated proficiency in Builder (Level 2) or Integrator (Level 3) AI, with hands-on experience incorporating AI tools into team workflows.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

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

• 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

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Collaborative and innovative team culture.

• Health, wellness, and retirement benefits.