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Head of Engineering for a leading Community Rewards Platform

Palermo Advisors is a global talent advisory and headhunting firm that simplifies borderless hiring by connecting companies with world-class talent.

Palermo Advisors

Employee count: 11-50

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About the Role

TYB (Try Your Best) is a community commerce and rewards platform where top brands engage and reward their communities for taking valuable actions. They have a unique B2B2C product with a growing user base of paying brands and engaged users, and recently closed an $11M Series A led by Offline, Strobe, and Coinbase.

TYB is seeking a Head of Engineering to transform its existing technical team and platform into a world-class operation. This leader will play a key role in shaping the company’s trajectory as they prepare for their Series B and beyond. The Head of Engineering will partner closely with Product and Design to turn big ideas into shipped software and outcomes that drive growth, retention, and brand adoption. The role focuses on building scalable systems, improving delivery predictability, and embedding a culture of operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a strategic partner to leadership, communicate complexity and trade-offs, and contribute to the company’s direction.
  • Set the technology vision, strategy, roadmap, and budget aligned with company goals.
  • Partner with product, design, and stakeholders to deliver on product goals and roadmap.
  • Be hands-on while building, leading, and mentoring a high-performing tech organization, including tech leads and engineering managers, and scaling the team from small squads (~10 engineers) to larger structures (40–60+ engineers).
  • Establish and continuously refine engineering best practices, processes, and rituals to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software, including CI/CD, automated testing, and feature flags.
  • Ensure data is accurate, accessible, and at the forefront of decision making.
  • Implement and maintain event tracking, experimentation frameworks, and analytics pipelines to support product decisions.
  • Conduct org assessments and identify top technical and process risks.
  • Introduce quality measures to reduce regressions and improve release predictability.
  • Communicate and collaborate effectively to ensure alignment, solve problems, and deliver positive outcomes.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Ideal Candidate Has

  • Attained a degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Built full-stack web, native mobile, or data applications. You don’t need to be hands-on day-to-day but you’ve been a builder and can speak with authority.
  • Designed high performance systems to power consumer products with real scale.
  • Scaled tech organizations at high growth, early-stage startups, building leadership layers and delegating effectively.
  • Experienced building teams in early-stage environments and implementing systems for growth, especially going from Series A to Series C/D scale.
  • Mentored and grown engineering talent across Dev, DevOps, Data, and QA.
  • Implemented development processes and engineering operations that scale.
  • Refactored legacy platforms with large amounts of tech debt.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically to solve problems and achieve business outcomes.
  • A defaults towards trade-off thinking, balancing speed, quality, and business priorities.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including documentation.
  • Comfortable aligning engineering work with measurable business outcomes.

Bonus Points For

  • E-commerce platforms and integrations, especially Shopify.
  • Building social-networking or community features.
  • Working on B2B and B2B2C products in addition to B2C products.
  • Experience shipping high-traffic consumer mobile apps (1M+ DAUs).
  • Familiarity with UGC and anti-SPAM / anti-abuse systems.
  • Working with web3 and blockchain technologies.

The tech stack

  • React / NextJS frontend on web, partly with Material UI (MUI) component library.
  • React Native on mobile.
  • Node, Postgres, and DynamoDB in the backend.
  • GraphQL-based architecture.
  • Data transformations on Airflow and DBT
  • Datawarehouse on Redshift
  • Hosted on AWS with Kubernetes.
  • Observability with Datadog.
  • GitHub, Figma, Notion, Linear.

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Director

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About Palermo Advisors

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At Palermo Advisors, we are at the forefront of revolutionizing talent acquisition through innovative and technology-driven solutions. Our firm is dedicated to simplifying the complexities of borderless hiring, connecting forward-thinking companies with exceptional, world-class talent from across the globe. We leverage a vast, meticulously cultivated network of professionals and deploy customized talent acquisition strategies that are designed to meet the unique and evolving needs of our clients. Whether an early-stage startup navigating the critical initial hires or a large, established corporation expanding into new territories or building out remote teams, our approach is engineered for precision and success. Our methodology is a departure from traditional recruitment, focusing on a proactive, targeted search to identify and engage the best candidates, many of whom are not actively seeking new opportunities. This ensures our clients are not just filling positions, but are building winning teams that drive innovation and long-term success.

Our commitment to technological advancement is matched by our dedication to providing unparalleled service and expertise. The leadership team at Palermo Advisors is comprised of seasoned experts with deep experience in innovation, finance, and global talent acquisition. This unique blend of skills allows us to offer more than just recruitment services; we act as strategic advisors to our clients, offering insights into market trends, talent landscapes, and effective team-building strategies. We have a proven track record, with over 1,500 successful placements, a testament to our ability to consistently match exceptional talent with the specific needs and cultures of our client organizations. By integrating advanced data security measures and a client-centric, conversational approach, we have streamlined the hiring process, making it faster, more efficient, and ultimately more effective. At Palermo Advisors, we are not just recruiters; we are architects of high-performing teams, dedicated to helping our clients achieve their most ambitious goals through the power of exceptional talent.

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401k

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Life Insurance

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Dental Insurance

We provide dental benefits.

Healthcare Benefits

We provide full healthcare benefits.

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