Head of Engineering

Perfect Venue

Lead the Engineering team at Perfect Venue, enhancing event planning through a hybrid work model in San Francisco. Drive innovation using AI coding tools and maintain effective engineering practices.

Posted 8/2/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $220,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams and aligning engineering efforts with business objectives. Proficient in modern web development and AI coding tools, with a strong focus on building a high-performing engineering culture and delivering scalable B2B SaaS solutions.

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10+ Years Software Engineering Experience3+ Years Engineering Team LeadershipExpertise in Modern Web DevelopmentExperience with AI Coding ToolsB2B SaaS Development

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringWeb DevelopmentArchitecture DesignCode ReviewAgile Software PracticesProduction Code ShippingLLM-Powered FeaturesRuby on Rails

Soft Skills

Team ManagementCommunicationProblem-SolvingAdaptability

Tools & Technologies

AI Coding ToolsAgile Methodologies

Industry Keywords

B2B SaaSCRMsATSsOperational Tools

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

RubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Align Engineering with the Business
Work closely with the founder, product managers, customer success, and sales teams to ensure that the engineering team and their work are well-aligned with the rest of the company.
Keep the product roadmap and engineering priorities aligned. Ensure that we have a healthy balance between maintaining the functionality and performance of the existing product while shipping new features.
Build a World Class Engineering Culture
Recruit, interview, and screen candidates for the engineering team. We'll rely on you to grow the team with the right people.
Manage and grow the engineering team. Set expectations, hold one-on-ones, and take responsibility for enabling a high-performing group of engineers to do their best work.
Set the engineering culture. You'll work with the team to refine how we work, review code, test for quality, and ship changes. We're looking for someone who can advocate for and support agile software practices that help the team work as efficiently and happily as possible.
Increase Engineering Velocity
Cut the time from customer problem to shipped code, and make AI the main lever: agentic coding tools, AI in code review, testing, migrations, and triage.
Jump in and ship when it unblocks the team. That might mean taking a feature yourself, fixing a flaky test suite, or making a call nobody else is making.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineering teams.
You have scaled both a product and a team through a growth phase, and you know which problems show up at 4 engineers versus 15.
You use AI coding tools daily and have opinions about which ones earn their place. You have already changed how you work because of them.
You are still hands-on. You ship production code today and you want a role where you still get to do that.
Strong technical background in modern web development, deep enough to make architecture calls and review any pull request on the team.
You are comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity. You define the process rather than waiting for one.
Have shipped LLM-powered features to real users at scale and dealt with what happens when they get it wrong. (Bonus)
Have built B2B SaaS: CRMs, ATSs, or all-in-one operational tools. (Bonus)
Have shipped Ruby on Rails in production. (Bonus)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents
Flexible PTO & 401(k)
Daily lunches when onsite
Unlimited book budget
Company laptop
Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family