Head of Engineering

About us

Common Room is the AI GTM Platform that empowers your teams with AI agents built on complete buyer intelligence. We unify every signal across the full buyer journey into one continuously-updated, person-level view—so your team knows exactly who to target and why, what to say, and when to reach out.

GTM teams are drowning in tool sprawl, fragmented data, and AI that doesn't deliver. Common Room replaces your disconnected stack with one platform built for scale and complexity. We bring together data, orchestration, and execution in one system built for orgs of 75-1000+.

We've raised over $50 million from top-tier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona, and we're backed by 25+ operators from companies like Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Loom, and more.

You + Common Room?

You'd be joining a team that values simplicity, passion, trust, each other, and our customers above all. We ask hard questions, collaborate gladly, and make decisions quickly.

So hello! Please, knock on our door. We'd love to meet you.

Why we need you

We’re looking for an Engineering Leader to grow and inspire our engineering organization. This role combines technical leadership with company-building impact. You’ll guide our engineering strategy, scale the team, and ensure we’re 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. You’re motivated by growth and learning, but you also bring the experience to help others accelerate theirs. You’re equally comfortable setting technical direction as you are creating the organizational structure, processes, and culture that enable a team to thrive.

You’ll be the bridge between engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders- keeping us ahead of the roadmap while balancing execution, scalability, and long-term strategy. And while you won’t hesitate to dive into technical details when needed, you’ll also step back to keep the broader picture in focus.

Beyond engineering, you’ll play a central role in shaping the company itself: recruiting top talent, building an inclusive and high-performance culture, and scaling the systems and processes that will power our next stage of growth.

What you’ll 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 world-class engineers and managers, while fostering career growth and leadership development.

• Drive execution at scale: Ensure timely delivery of complex, high-impact projects across the stack, with a focus on backend systems and infrastructure.

• Partner cross-functionally: 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.

• Company-building: 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 (including people management and technical leadership).

• Experience scaling engineering organizations at a fast-growing 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, high-performing teams and fostering an inclusive, feedback-rich culture.

• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels; comfortable jumping into code reviews one moment and board-level 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