FoundingHeadofEngineering

FOUNDING HEAD OF ENGINEERING — KATAPULT (path to CTO / Technical Co-Founder) THE OPPORTUNITY Katapult is starting its next chapter, and we're hiring the leader who can connect product, market, channel, and model fit to a real business opportunity, then apply the minimum effective dosage of technology to turn it into value. This is a founding seat. You get a real piece of the upside, and you help shape what Katapult becomes. It's also entrepreneurial and highly technical: your edge isn't being the deepest architect or ML specialist in the room. It's the creativity to walk into a fuzzy situation, see where technology actually moves the needle, and plus-one it into something that ships. (We'll hire the deep specialists. Part of your job is knowing exactly who they are.) You start with the Founding Head of Engineering mantle. Deliver at the level we're betting on, and it opens into CTO / Technical Co-Founder: a true plus-one to the founder across product, technology, and the business. WHAT YOU'LL OWN - Product-to-value translation. You connect product, market, channel, and model fit to the business opportunity, then bring the minimum effective dosage of technology to generate value fast and start the flywheel. This is the heart of the role. - Scaling teams and the org. You've gone from individual contributor to running a large engineering and product organization, and you can do it again here. You own culture, training, ramp-up, career progression, and how we stay horizontal as we grow. Real org-building, not middle management. - Talent radar. You're as good as (or better than) our CEO at spotting what the org needs and finding the people to fill it, including specialists deeper than you in architecture, security, ML, and data. You name the gap, then you know how to find and attract the person who closes it. - Hands-on building. When it moves things forward, you roll up your sleeves: prototype, build the first product, join the strike team to stabilize a new engagement,