# Head of Engineering at tread.io

- Company: tread.io
- What the company does: Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://tread.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tread/22ae3144-8134-43f0-9f40-01e61967e2cc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tread-io-head-of-engineering/

## About the role

Own engineering execution across product engineering, platform, data, payments, AI infrastructure, internal developer tooling, and the AI-native software development lifecycle. Recruit top-tier talent and raise our bar for excellence. Push the team to strike the balance between speed and a reliable product. Have the hard conversations early.

## What they're looking for

- 7-12 years building software, with demonstrated engineering leadership in high-growth startups (Seed–Series B/C) or founder experience
- Background in hypergrowth startups. Ideally Seed through Series C, or founder experience
- Strong engineering judgment around speed vs. correctness. You know where to intentionally optimize for rapid iteration, where correctness is non-negotiable, and how to build systems that recover safely when things fail
- Experience operating payments or financial systems at scale
- Deep technical credibility. Comfortable discussing architecture, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, evaluation systems, developer tooling, and modern software delivery practices at every level of the organization
- Lives in modern AI tooling every day. Claude Code, Cursor, coding agents, prompt engineering, context management, evaluation workflows, and multi-agent collaboration are part of your daily engineering practice—not technologies you've merely experimented with

Tags: Engineering