PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company transforming how government agencies manage administrative operations. Our platform replaces fragmented document management solutions and decades-old legacy systems with a unified user interaction and data layer that manages billions of dollars in public funds; serving state, local, and federal agencies that in turn support millions of citizens and businesses. Authorium sits at the intersection of modernization, public service, and technology innovation like AI-enabled workflows. ABOUT THE HEAD OF ENGINEERING ROLE
We are hiring a Head of Engineering to build and grow the team that builds the platform that state and local governments use to manage their complex workflows such as procurement, contract management, and grant management.
This senior engineering seat reports directly to the executive leadership. The Head of Engineering is a builder and a leader: owning the team, the technical execution, and executing with excellence on behalf of our customers. Authorium’s engineering team is small, but mighty and growing. We are looking for a leader that can get directly engaged in the work of the engineering team, directly execute key initiatives, and provide guidance and direction for the team.
You will work collaboratively across both on-shore and off-shore engineering squads to deliver a platform experience that is highly secure, meets some of the most stringent compliance requirements, and provides an excellent user experience to our customers and their stakeholders. Our customers are government agencies with real procurement deadlines, real compliance obligations, and limited tolerance for downtime. This is mission-critical software delivery and important work is tied to its reliability, performance, and experience.
You are a technical mentor to the engineering teams you work with.
Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and grow a small blended team of full-time engineers, contractors, and an offshore agency partner across multiple time zones. Run 1:1s and career coaching, set clear expectations, manage capacity, and build a culture of collaboration and ownership and excitement around delivery.
Delivery Accountability: Own what engineering commits to and whether it lands. Set priorities, unblock the team, set realistic dates, surface slippage before it becomes a customer conversation, and course-correct in the open. Technical Execution & Architecture: Own architecture and technical-debt decisions inside the platform and interface with security and compliance leaders. Create documented plans that acknowledge tradeoffs and guide executive decisionmaking. Be a critical member of the leadership team driving Authorium’s platform vision forward.
Engineering Quality: Set the standard. Own code review norms, testing expectations, deployment safety, and the delivery and reliability metrics the team is measured against.
Production Reliability & Security: Own uptime, incident response, and on-call structure. Partner with InfoSec and Compliance on the security and compliance posture our customers audit us against, including public-sector requirements as we expand.
AI-Native Engineering Practice: Define where agents are trusted, where their output is reviewed, what quality bar applies to agent-produced code, and how we measure output.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Work directly with Product, Delivery/Implementation, Customer Experience, and Solutions. Translate business priorities into scoped, sequenced engineering plans, and engineering constraints into language non-technical colleagues and government customers can act on. Expect to be in front of customers when it matters.
Interview, assess, and help set the technical bar for engineering hires. First 30 Days: Learn the codebase and the customer business case — ship something real with support from the team. Get to know the architecture, the fragile parts, the open incidents, and every person on the team. The team's operating cadence — planning, review, on-call, incident response — is understood and running. Documented execution plans against capacity and priorities are the norm.
7+ years building software, with at least 2–3 years leading engineers directly — and you are still writing and reviewing code today

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud architecture
• Track record of maintaining predictable quality and delivery, with specifics on how you managed it and what it cost
• Experience leading a distributed team, holding quality and communication together across time zones

~ BONUS POINTS

Experience building or scaling an offshore engineering function
Stock options (details at offer stage)

• Flexible PTO
• Home office stipend
• Genuine ownership of the platform's technical execution and the shape and direction of the team that builds it