Job Type: Contractor with USD payment - Full-time - Remote The Role Our client is seeking for a Head of Engineering to lead the next phase of the company’s technical growth. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for owning the full engineering function, setting technical direction, and building a small, highly talented technical team capable of scaling the business and platform over time. This leader will play a critical role in strengthening internal technical capabilities, reducing reliance on third-party development partners, and ensuring the company’s technology foundation supports a modern, reliable, and scalable customer experience. Our client operates in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment and is seeking a leader who is hands-on, detail-oriented, moves quickly, and is willing to roll up their sleeves to drive execution alongside the team. Responsibilities • Own the engineering function end-to-end, including strategy, execution, team, and long-term platform scalability. • Design, architect, code, and oversee the continued evolution of FlyBox’s enterprise platform, ensuring security, reliability, scalability, and overall system health. • Partner closely with company leadership to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions and provide insights that support strategic decision-making. • Lead and grow a small, highly talented engineering team supporting FlyBox’s apps, integrations, logistics operations, and enterprise backend. • Build and maintain a high-performing engineering culture grounded in speed, accountability, collaboration, and practical problem-solving. • Streamline technical roadmaps, requirements, and development processes to reduce complexity and accelerate execution while maintaining high standards of quality. • Establish engineering standards, documentation practices, release processes, and technical frameworks. • Oversee DevOps and infrastructure responsibilities, including deployment pipelines, integrations, hosting, environment management, observability, monitoring, and reporting. • Manage internal/external engineering resources to ensure high-quality and timely execution. • Support data engineering initiatives spanning CRM, billing, warehouse management, logistics, customer support, and shipping systems, while overseeing quality assurance and system testing across the platform. Qualifications • Strong backend engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining complex APIs, integrations, and backend services. • Experience managing API-driven frontend applications, including mobile applications that rely heavily on backend infrastructure and services. • Proven ability to design scalable system architecture that supports growth, performance, reliability, and future product expansion. • Experience implementing and managing platform monitoring, alerting, logging, observability, issue detection, and system risk management practices. • Strong understanding of modern authentication and authorization frameworks, including secure login, user identity, permissions, token-based access, and access control best practices. • Deep familiarity with modern AI-augmented development workflows, including LLM-backed CLIs, code-generation tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices. • Excitement for and experience building applied AI and machine learning features, workflows, or services into customer-facing products and internal systems. • Strong english communication skills (Both verbal and written) #J-18808-Ljbffr