Head of Engineering, Graphite
Code review platform
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Code review platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create products & workflows that help fast-moving eng teams achieve more.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director / VP / Head of Engineering)
- Domain Expertise: Background in AI / ML systems, developer platforms, or infrastructure tooling preferred
- Scaling Track Record: Experience leading engineering through high growth (Series B → Series D or pre-IPO phase), scaling orgs from tens to hundreds
- Technical Depth: Strong architectural understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern ML pipelines
- Execution Excellence: Proven ability to balance long-term platform investments with short-term product delivery
- Leadership: Exceptional communication, organizational design, and strategic leadership skills; proven ability to inspire high-performing teams
- Bonus: Experience in open-source developer ecosystems, AI safety, or applied LLM tooling
What the job involves
- As Head of Engineering, you’ll own the technical vision, execution, and scaling of our engineering team
- You’ll lead across product, platform, and infrastructure, ensuring the delivery of a secure, performant, and reliable system that meets the needs of our rapidly growing user base
- You’ll build and mentor a world-class engineering culture while partnering with product, design, and AI research to bring cutting-edge developer experiences to life
- Lead & Scale: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering organization (currently ~30–50 engineers) as we scale to hundreds
- Set Technical Direction: Define and communicate a clear technical strategy aligned with business and product goals, balancing innovation with pragmatic execution
- Drive Delivery: Oversee architecture, development, and deployment of core products and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and velocity
- Operational Excellence: Implement strong engineering processes — CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response, and security — to support rapid iteration and quality
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with the CTO, Product, and AI Research to translate vision into scalable technical execution
- Culture & People: Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning; champion diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety
- Recruit & Retain: Attract top engineering talent; establish career ladders and coaching frameworks to retain and grow our best people
- Scale Systems & Teams: Lead modernization and scalability efforts across our backend, ML pipelines, and developer platform
Our take
Graphite is making advanced code review and developer tools accessible to a wider range of engineers, breaking down the barriers that typically limit such resources to teams at large companies. While industry giants like Facebook and Google use tools like Phabricator and Critique, Graphite offers open-source solutions with a command-line interface and dashboard, empowering developers of all sizes to streamline their code review processes.
What sets Graphite apart is its ability to dramatically enhance engineering team efficiency with innovative features. Unlike traditional linear code review processes - where code is committed and then reviewed - Graphite allows for concurrent reviews. This enables engineers to continue working on other tasks while their code is being reviewed, leading to a much more productive workflow.
As the company continues to roll out regular performance improvements and refine its features, its goal is to expand its user base to tens of thousands of engineers. With strong support and a growing community of users, Graphite is looking to gain traction across even the most traditional engineering teams, hoping to shift their approach to code review and developer tools toward a more modern and efficient model.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$52m
SERIES B
May 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74.3m
Company benefits
- Great equipment: New laptop, monitor, and stipend for desk accessories
- 401(k) Plan: Helping you save for the future
- Equity: Employee-friendly equity terms
- Health benefits: Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid meals: Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee during workdays
- Commuter benefits: Covering your commute costs
- Paid time off: Four weeks of paid time off
- Family leave; Sixteen weeks of parental leave
- Quarterly hack weeks: Take time to develop what you feel most passionately about
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Merrill Lutsky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously product at Square, Oscar, and various NYC-based startups. B.A. from Harvard.
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