Head of Engineering, Rebrandly
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URL management platform
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URL management platform
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To help creators of all sizes securely manage and measure their content performance.
Role
Who you are
- Scaled API infrastructure experience: Proven track record operating or building systems handling millions of requests with strict uptime requirements
- Architecture simplification: Successfully rationalized sprawling service architectures, knowing when to consolidate, rewrite, or leave alone
- Modern engineering practices: Built or transformed teams with contemporary DevOps, CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices representing 2025 standards
- Player-coach capability: Can read code and participate in code reviews, but primary leverage comes through people and systems, not personal commits
- Exceptional hiring skills: Track record of spotting and assessing talent, with humility to hire people ahead of you in specific areas (particularly AI-native engineers)
- AI fluency: Understand how to leverage AI in engineering workflows, build AI-powered product features, and structure data as a strategic asset
- Distributed team leadership: Successfully led remote/distributed engineering teams with strong async communication and documentation practices
- Coaching orientation: Demonstrated ability to develop promising ICs into leaders, meeting teams where they are and helping them level up
- Cultural transformation experience: Shifted engineering cultures from reactive to proactive. You know how to make reliability work feel meaningful
- Exceptional communication: Ability to communicate frequently, transparently, and precisely across all formats—strategy docs, team syncs, technical decisions
- Experience with Python, Node.js, and TypeScript (preferred but not required)
- AWS infrastructure experience, particularly multi-region data residency
- Understanding of high-throughput redirect infrastructure and uptime requirements
- Security and spam/abuse prevention knowledge for exposed products
- Candidates must have legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States or Ireland, without sponsorship
Desirable
- Experience in PLG/SLG hybrid businesses serving both self-serve scale and enterprise requirements
- Background in link management, martech, or high-volume B2B API platforms
- Comfort with EU team timezones (or willingness to flex schedule)
- Experience with SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance requirements
- Track record leading engineering in companies at similar scale ($10M ARR, 1M+ users)
What the job involves
- We're seeking an exceptional Head of Engineering to own our engineering strategy, execution, and culture
- Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll lead a distributed EU-based team (with flexibility to add resources in the US or Ireland) and partner closely with Product and Design to ship faster and better
- You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills, driving both architectural decisions and cultural transformation in a fast-paced, high-scale environment
- Own the engineering strategy, execution, and culture for the entire organization
- Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to drive company-wide technical roadmap
- Drive the AI transformation initiative, making engineering AI-native within 60 days while infusing AI features into our product using our data assets
- Continue to modernize our engineering practices
- Lead and develop a distributed EU-based engineering team,
- Grow and develop the team by coaching the current members and bringing in top talent to add to the team 4 full-time hires and 2 contractors within 6 months
- Coach and mentor the team our leaders on the eng team, building leadership depth across the organization
- Create an environment where engineers are inspired by impact, not just interesting problems
- Accelerate both velocity AND quality—shipping faster with fewer defects and less firefighting
- Oversee high-scale infrastructure maintaining 99.99% uptime
- Lead tech debt remediation efforts with dedicated budget and contractor support
- Establish modern DevOps, CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices across the organization
- Drive the team to simplify the codebase and build sustainable practices
- Work closely with CEO (product/EPD background) on strategic technical decisions
- Collaborate with world-class Product and Design partners (industry/domain experts) to accelerate delivery
- Lead incident response and drive root cause analysis for production issues
- Champion technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices
- Communicate frequently and transparently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Our take
Dublin-based, French-founded Rebrandly is a branded link management platform that allows users to securely brand, analyse, and share custom URLs. Born out of ClickMeter, the company’s tools shorten lengthy links, increase brand awareness, improve conversion rates, and track analytics.
Indeed, there are other players helping creators securely manage their content performance, but Rebrandly is the only SaaS link management platform of its kind to achieve SOC2 compliance; hence, customers can be confident that links are made safe and secure. It has worked with companies including PayPal, IBM Delta Air Lines, Land Rover, and Zillow, with offices across various continents.
The company is set for further expansion following a strategic 2022 investment led by Five Elms Capital. The significant investment will be used to accelerate growth (which has seen user growth already at 34% year over year), including the release of new products and features to optimise content performance. On the precipice of US and international expansion, this is an exciting moment for Rebrandly.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexibility - Enjoy the freedom to work flexible hours from anywhere in the world
- Creativity - Add your own creative flare and input into your work- and be valued for it in return
- Cutting Edge - Work with the newest technologies and the best tools to get the job done
- Variety of work - Discover new strengths in an environment where no two days are the same
- Autonomy - Manage your workflow according to your own preferences, and be rewarded with growth opportunities
- International - Deliver a top notch product to customers on every continent
Leadership
Maria Thomas
(CEO)Previously CPO and Member of the Board of Directors at Rebrandly, after a stint as CPO at Buffer. She was an Operator and Startup Advisor at Antler and VP of Product Management at Bitly.
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