Head of Engineering

Job description

### About Stigg Every AI company is accidentally building a bank. Every prompt, agent run and API call spends real money, and something has to decide, in real time, who is allowed to do what and how much it costs. Stigg is the usage runtime for AI products. We sit in the request path and give engineering teams real-time entitlement enforcement, AI credits, usage metering and spend governance, so they can launch any pricing model without building a ledger into their codebase. AI Credits, Under Control. Teams at Miro, Webflow, PagerDuty, Upwork, Qlik and AI21 Labs run on Stigg. In June 2026 we launched Stigg 2.0 at the AI Engineer World's Fair, and AI startups started showing up on their own. ### The role Stigg powers mission-critical infrastructure for some of the world’s largest software companies. Reliability and trust aren’t just nice-to-haves for us, they’re at the core of everything we do. Today, Stigg manages over 100 million customers and subscriptions, and since launching Stigg 2.0, we’ve roughly doubled self-serve signups from AI startups, adding to a growing base of enterprise customers already running on Stigg. We’re looking for a **Head of Engineering** to build a world-class engineering organization: one that moves fast, delivers consistently, operates with excellence, and takes pride in the quality of its work. You’ll lead our engineering team leads, own how we plan, build, and ship, and report directly to the CTO. We’re building Stigg for the AI era, and we believe the way engineering teams operate needs to fundamentally change. Our vision is an engineering organization where AI agents handle most of the execution, freeing engineers to focus on the hardest problems, critical decisions, and creative work that moves the business forward. You’ll have the ownership and freedom to turn that vision into reality at Stigg. ### What you'll own - **The engineering org:** Develop our team leads into great managers and build strong teams around them. Raise the bar on who we hire, grow engineers into leaders and push decisions down so teams move without waiting on you. Build the org you would want to join. - **Delivery:** Turn company goals into one engineering plan and own it end to end. Make the call when teams compete for the same people. The whole company should know what engineering is shipping and when, without having to ask. - **Focus:** Make sure every team knows why it is building what it is building, decide how much time goes to paying down technical debt, and keep engineering on the goals that matter instead of whatever came up this week. - **How we work:** Find the friction in how engineering works and remove it. Set one way of working across all teams, from planning to production, that people actually follow. - **AI-powered engineering:** Hand most of the execution work to AI, from boilerplate and tests to migrations and first-pass code reviews. If something manual happens twice, it should be automated. - **Reliability and cost:** Our customers run their pricing, credits and usage limits on Stigg. Own on-call, incident response and the 99.99% uptime bar, and keep cloud spend in check as usage grows. - **Technical direction:** Bring your judgment to the big technical calls, shape the product roadmap with the founders and lead strategic projects yourself. ### Who you are - **A leader of leaders.** You have grown engineers into team leads and team leads into strong managers, and the teams you built kept performing after you left. - **Done it before.** You have run multiple engineering teams at high-growth companies, and you can tell us what each org looked like when you started and when you left. - **Deep technical background.** You spent years building and running large-scale distributed systems before moving into leadership, and engineers trust your technical judgment. - **Light on process.** You fix what gets in a team's way with the smallest process that works, and you remove process that no longer earns its place. - **AI-native.** You use AI agents every day and have opinions, backed by results, on how a whole team should work with them. - **High agency, low ego.** You jump in when something is on fire and step back once it is not. You like working directly with founders, with no committee in between. ### Requirements - 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing multiple engineering teams through their leads (e.g. as head, group manager or director of engineering), ideally at more than one high-growth company - Experience running delivery across several teams that depend on each other, on an API-first product - Experience owning production systems with strict uptime and latency requirements, including monitoring, on-call and incident response - Measurable improvements in how an engineering org delivers, ideally with numbers you can walk us through - Experience hiring engineers and growing engineers into team leads ### Bonus points - You have led engineering for billing, payments, financials or another system where every number has to be right - You have rolled out AI agents for internal use cases across a team and can show what it changed - You have owned a cloud budget and brought spend down as usage grew - You have scaled an engineering team from around 10 to 30+ engineers, adding teams while keeping one way of working ### Why you'll love working at Stigg Joining now means building the engineering org behind the usage runtime for AI products, at the exact moment every AI company is figuring out how to meter, price and control usage. You get a strong team, a clear mandate and a direct line to the founders. If you are excited about building a world-class engineering org, and about what engineering looks like when agents do most of the execution, we would love to meet you. ### Perks, office and location - Stock options, competitive salary, latest MacBook Pro, dog-friendly office and great team vibes. - We work from our Tel Aviv office 4 days a week.