Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

Reporting to: Ishaan (CEO & Co-Founder)

Business Need for the Hire: Build and scale the engineering organization as the company enters its next stage of growth. Own engineering execution, hiring, and day-to-day engineering operations. Lead hiring efforts with a goal of adding approximately 8 engineers by the end of the year. Allow the founders to spend more time on product and company strategy while establishing scalable engineering processes.

Wider Team and Where This Role Sits: Reports directly to Ishaan and works closely with the founders. Responsible for leading and growing the engineering organization. Oversees engineering hiring, technical execution, delivery, and engineering management across the business.

Essential Skills Required to Interview a Candidate: Previous experience as a Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or Engineering Manager at a high-growth startup. Strong technical background with Rust or Python experience and the ability to lead highly technical Rust engineering teams. Experience building and scaling engineering organizations within startup environments (Seed–Series C preferred). Proven track record hiring and developing engineering teams. Strong technical leadership across distributed systems, infrastructure, APIs, or developer tooling. Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments. Experience improving engineering processes while maintaining execution speed. Onsite in San Francisco.

Questions to Screen Candidates: Tell me about the largest engineering organization you've built or managed. How have you scaled engineering processes without slowing product velocity? How do you balance hiring, execution, and technical quality? Tell me about a difficult engineering leadership decision you had to make. Why does a company at LiteLLM's stage interest you?

Interview Process: Introductory conversation with Ishaan. To be determined.

Selling Points of the Role/Company: Gateway supporting 100+ LLMs through a single API. Trusted by enterprise customers including NASA, Adobe, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Netflix. Approximately $14M ARR and adding roughly $1M ARR month over month. Y Combinator company that has remained fully profitable after only raising a Seed round. Opportunity to build and scale the engineering organization during a period of hypergrowth. Work directly alongside the founders with significant ownership and influence. Small, scrappy engineering culture with meaningful technical challenges across AI infrastructure and developer tooling.

Location: San Francisco, CA 5 days/week onsite

Salary: TBD (Highly competitive base + meaningful equity)

Benefits: Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision 401(k) Equity package Bonus: Performance bonus (if applicable) Visa Sponsorship/Relocation: Relocation assistance available for exceptional candidates. Visa sponsorship TBD.

Ideal Start Date: ASAP