Head of Engineering
NABIS
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and manage a globally distributed engineering org (U.S. + India-based contractors), fostering alignment, accountability, and inclusive but truth-seeking culture
- Define and execute the technical roadmap in partnership with customers, Product, and Executive teams
- Architect and scale high-performing and cost-effective infrastructure to support AI-native, data-heavy systems and automation tooling
- Drive engineering excellence across delivery, quality, documentation, and velocity
- Own hiring, org design, career development, and team performance across engineering
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to define priorities and long-term investments
- Build systems that integrate automation, security, scalability, and reliability as defaults
- Ensure contractors are effectively managed, scoped, and integrated with full-time teams
- Provide technical mentorship, unblock ICs and EMs, and dive into architecture and code base when needed
- Represent Engineering in executive meetings and help drive company-wide decisions
- Champion engineering fundamentals and continuous improvement across teams
- Enables IT team members to ensure org-wide success and security.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles (Director/VP level or above)
- Proven success leading distributed or hybrid teams, especially managing international contractors in India or other offshore partnerships
- Has good technical intuition and depth, with the ability to participate in high-level system architecture, technical decision-making, and problem solving, while maintaining the ability to dive deep to perform root cause analysis
- Ability to be engaged in both the tech and cannabis communities, in order to understand industry dynamics to be able to identify real-world problems, measure ROI, and solve through innovative engineering solutions
- Experience with AI/ML-powered platforms, developer infrastructure, or automation tooling
- Background in fast-growing startups or scale-ups; you've built engineering orgs and processes from the ground up, but have seen how large orgs work
- Expertise in organizational design, hiring, and people development
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with a low-ego, high-accountability mindset
- Strategic operator who thrives in ambiguity and scales operations through systems, not heroics
- Experience in the cannabis industry, marketplaces, supply chain, logistics, or B2B platforms a plus, but not required
- Must be able to pass a background check.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages.
- Medical/Dental/Vision offered to all full-time employees: 75% of employee premium paid by Nabis.
- 401(k) plan with a match.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringsystem architectureAI/ML platformsautomation toolingroot cause analysisengineering excellencetechnical decision-makingorganizational designpeople developmentdelivery quality
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationaccountabilitystrategic thinkingproblem solvingcross-functional collaborationmentorshipadaptabilityinclusive culturecontinuous improvement