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Join to apply for the Engineering Leader role at Common Room About Us Common Room is the customer intelligence platform that captures every buying signal, giving companies superpowers with AI enrichment and automation to reach the right person with the right context at the right time. Despite an explosion of buyer signals, companies are left struggling with siloed pointsolution vendors, bloated tech stacks, and unactionable ''''intent'''' data. Common Room brings together all the buying signals you care about in one place so you can track the entire customer journey, match signals to real people and accounts, take action and automate. Weve raised over $50million from toptier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona to build the world''''s first customerintelligence platform for modern B2B companies. And were backed by 25+ operators from the fastestgrowing companies in the world such as Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Loom, and more. You + Common Room? Youd be joining a team that revels in asking hard questions, collaborating gladly, and making decisions quicklya team that values simplicity, passion, trust, each other, and our customers above all. So hello! Please, knock on our door. Wed love to meet you. Why we need you Were looking for an Engineering Leader to grow and inspire our engineering organization. This role combines technical leadership with companybuilding impact. Youll guide our engineering strategy, scale the team, and ensure were delivering systems that are robust, reliable, and delightful for our customers. Your ability to learn quickly (about the product, business, and technology) is your superpower. Youre motivated by growth and learning, but you also bring the experience to help others accelerate theirs. Youre equally comfortable setting technical direction as you are creating the organizational structure, processes, and culture that enable a team to thrive. Youll be the bridge between engineering, product, design, and other stakeholderskeeping us ahead of the roadmap while balancing execution, scalability, and longterm strategy. And while you wont hesitate to dive into technical details when needed, youll also step back to keep the broader picture in focus. Beyond engineering, youll play a central role in shaping the company itself: recruiting top talent, building an inclusive and highperformance culture, and scaling the systems and processes that will power our next stage of growth. What Youll Do Define and execute engineering strategy: Align technical direction with business goals, balancing velocity with quality and scalability. Build and scale the team: Recruit, retain, and mentor worldclass engineers and managers, while fostering career growth and leadership development. Drive execution at scale: Ensure timely delivery of complex, highimpact projects across the stack, with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure. Partner crossfunctionally: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape the roadmap and deliver on company priorities. Champion engineering excellence: Establish standards for architecture, observability, performance, and operational excellence. Foster culture: Create a psychologically safe environment where teams can innovate, take ownership, and do their best work. Companybuilding: Contribute to hiring practices, onboarding, organizational design, and other initiatives that support our growth as a startup. What Makes You a Great Fit 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading teams (people management and technical leadership). Experience scaling engineering organizations at a fastgrowing startup or tech company. Strong judgment on tradeoffs, architecture, and tooling; favoring supported, stable technologies over trends for their own sake. Proven ability to deliver large, complex projects while keeping teams unblocked and motivated. Deep familiarity with backend systems, distributed architecture, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Postgres; Node.js/TypeScript experience a plus). A track record of building diverse, highperforming teams and fostering an inclusive, feedbackrich culture. Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels; comfortable jumping into code reviews one moment and boardlevel discussions the next. Our current tech stack We choose tools that help solve the problem at hand efficiently. For our current set of problems, we prefer to primarily use TypeScript with Node.js . We use TypeGraphQL for our API endpoints, Apollo/Express as our web server, and Postgres (hosted on RDS) + ClickHouse as our database. We use React for frontend, and AWS for our infrastructure needs. The compensation range for this position is between $200,000 and $280,000 (plus equity) depending on experience. Our values Be Customercentric We work backwards from the needs of our customers. The crisp articulation of customer value guides our decisions. Strive for Simplicity We choose simplicity over complexity whenever possible. We seek to identify and understand the essential quality of what we are building. Make it Happen We are quick to take the first step, and prioritize decisiveness over fear of making a mistake. We dont confuse motion for movement and we measure ourselves on impact over actions. Were In this Together We measure personal success by the success of our customers and teammates. Relationships matter, and the strongest ones are built on the foundations of trust, enablement, and transparency. Our benefits Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership. Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA. We pay 100% of your employee premium and 50% of your premium for any dependents. Unlimited Paid Time Off. Paid Company Holidays. Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs. Monthly Remote Stipend. 401(k) selfcontribution. Paid Family Leave. Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the companys lifecycle. Common Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr