Head of Product Engineering

Location: Remote (EMEA) · Germany/Munich preferred - CET/CEST time zone Hi — I'm Grigory, co-founder and CTO at Secfix. At Secfix we're building security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort. We're already the category leader in Europe. AI is changing how software gets built, and we're shaping the tools this new era requires. I've spent most of my career believing that the best engineering leaders aren't the ones who run the most meetings. They're the ones who make everyone around them faster, clearer, and more proud of their work — and they can do that because they've been through the hard technical problems themselves. Since we started, I've done the engineering leadership myself: 1:1s, hiring, design reviews, performance conversations. The team is 8 engineers and 2 product designers, and I'm spread across too many things. If we were a football team, we'd be a good regional side that just made it to the Bundesliga — talented, hard-working, winning quite a few games. Now we need a coach who's played at Champions League level and can take us there to win every week. That means an engineering leader who can still ship. Someone who owns the engineering end-to-end — the technical decisions, the pace, and the people who will lead the teams —and has product taste — who notices when a feature takes three weeks that should take one, and when it ships on time but isn't good enough. You won't ship weekly — you'll need focus — but you'll build with the team often enough to know the playbook still works. You'll work directly with me. Two things matter most here: speed and taste. Most teams pick one. We need both to win. — Grigory Why Secfix exists Over 1.78 million SMBs in Europe need to comply with security frameworks — ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, SOC 2 — just to sell to enterprise customers. The process is manual, painful, and takes over a year. We automated it. Our platform integrates with a company's full tech stack — AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, GCP, and more — automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification in weeks instead of months. Our fastest customer was certified in 4 weeks instead of the industry-standard 12+ months. We've raised €17M in total (€12M Series A), backed by Alstin Capital, Neosfer (Commerzbank), and Bayern Capital. We're on a profitable trajectory, growing fast, and building the team that will take us to own European market from SMBs to mid market. This space is not threatened by AI; it's amplified by it. Compliance requires deep domain expertise combined with automation. Our new AI product (CISO AI) is just getting started, and there's a huge amount of engineering work ahead: agentic workflows, intelligent evidence collection, context-aware policy generation, and more. What you'll actually do in the first 3 months This isn't a role where you show up and start running standups. There are no standups. Here's how the first quarter goes: Month 1: Ship. Get into the codebase and ship a meaningful feature with AI alongside the team. You don't need to be the fastest engineer in the room, but the team needs to see that you can build at the level you'll ask of them and can ask the right questions. Month 2: Make the team faster. Find where features take three weeks that should take one, and fix it — in tooling, in how we review and test, or in who's working on what. Start regular 1:1s with each engineer, focused on weekly output, quality, and how well they use AI. Month 3: Own hiring and the team shape. Take over engineering hiring and build a process that runs without my oversight. Decide how the team is organised as it grows, and which lead roles we hire or grow into first. The next people we bring in should raise the pace again. I will be there b