Head of Product Engineering — Remote & Scaleup Leader

WeRoad is seeking a Head of Product Engineering to lead four product engineering teams: consumer website/frontend, checkout/payments, internal operations, and tools for tour coordinators and partners.

You will report to the CTPO and shape leadership, hiring the Engineering Manager who will run the team. You will also directly manage the website/frontend team initially, building a high-performance, scalable engineering organization.

Lead the four product engineering teams, managing their Engineering Managers and owning team structure and headcount. Own delivery of the product roadmap across web, checkout & payments, tour operations, and coordinator/partner platforms. Collaborate with CTPO, Product, and Design on product and technical strategy, and with the Director of AI on AI engineering practices. Set and maintain standards for architecture, code quality, testing, reliability, and observability across the stack (Nuxt/Vue, NestJS, Laravel/PHP, Python, RabbitMQ, GraphQL/REST, GCP). Manage and develop Engineering Managers and senior engineers, run performance metrics and career frameworks, own hiring/onboarding. Manage cross-team dependencies and shared platforms, and maintain incident response, postmortem, and technical-debt processes. Report engineering health to the C-Team: delivery throughput, reliability, and roadmap progress. 8+ years in software engineering 4+ years leading teams and managers in an org of 20+ people Experience delivering complex, high-traffic consumer products in scaleups or high-growth environments Technical depth across modern web and backend stacks (JS/TS, PHP/Node) and microservices People-management experience: coaching EMs, setting priorities, and running autonomous teams Track record turning strategy into delivery with data and metrics Experience with AI-assisted engineering and driving its adoption Fluent English in a fast-paced, multi-market, remote-first environment Performance-based bonus Free WeRoad trip €1,400/year travel