Engineering Group Lead

HiBob, a leading HR platform that helps modern, mid-size businesses transform their people management. As an Engineering Group Lead, you will lead the engineering organization behind HiBob's Talent Acquisition domain, overseeing approximately 17 people across multiple teams. You will be responsible for the group's engineering direction, execution, and people leadership, working closely with Product and other R&D leaders. This role requires strong people leadership, technical and architectural depth, and the ability to connect long-term technical direction with immediate product and business impact.

Lead the engineering organization behind HiBob’s Talent Acquisition domain, providing direction, execution, and people leadership.

Develop leaders, drive execution across multiple teams, and connect long-term technical direction with immediate product and business impact.

3+ years of experience as a Group Lead or equivalent, leading multiple engineering teams and managers in a fast-paced SaaS or platform company.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the most senior leader at the Zagreb site, providing local leadership and supporting site coordination and occasional operational needs.
• Experience leading engineering organizations through scale-up, with deep expertise in scalable systems, backend services, and infrastructure, and the ability to assess trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and guide long-term architectural decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong hands-on technical foundation.
• 5+ years of people-management experience, with a proven track record of developing engineering managers, technical leaders, and high-performing teams.
• Experience with AI-driven development practices, tooling, or agentic technologies.
• Proven experience owning and scaling a significant product, module, or technical domain in a SaaS environment.
• A strategic mindset - able to connect long-term architectural direction with immediate product and business impact.
• Excellent people leadership skills - you inspire trust, develop talent, and lead through influence and context, not control.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to drive alignment across distributed, global teams.
• Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.
• Experience operating in complex environments with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.

Preferred

• Experience in HR tech, fintech, or other complex information-system environments.
• Strong experience with backend services, distributed systems, or data-intensive products.
• Experience contributing to engineering site leadership or working with external engineering vendors.
• Experience providing senior leadership at a local site, with the ability to guide teams, support site coordination, and take ownership of occasional operational needs.