Mentimeter
Engineering Director | Stockholm, Sweden
hn · Stockholm, Sweden
Jose is an exceptional founding engineer with proven 0→1 product delivery, AI/LLM expertise, and multi-year experience shipping systems at scale—exactly the technical credibility needed for an Engineering Director role. His hands-on experience architecting production AI systems, leading small teams, and making build-vs-buy decisions demonstrates the technical judgment required for this leadership position. However, he lacks demonstrated experience managing 30-40 engineers across multiple teams and establishing engineering culture/processes at that scale, and there are visa/relocation constraints that may conflict with the role's Stockholm location requirement.
Hook: You've built AI products from empty repo to production and led engineers on complex systems—Mentimeter needs exactly your technical depth and founding-engineer mindset to pioneer what an agentic SDLC looks like across 30-40 engineers.
Missing: Managing 30-40 engineers at scale, Engineering organization design and culture-building at larger team sizes, EU work visa or Swedish residency eligibility, Multi-product platform leadership experience
Posting
Mentimeter | Engineering Director | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE (hybrid, 3 days/week in office) | Full-time Mentimeter turns presentations into conversations – live polls, quizzes and Q&A that get every voice in the room heard. Product-led, 300M+ people have used it, and we are going multi-product. I am the CTO. I am hiring an Engineering Director – one of two, reporting to me. The ask is big. We are making the agentic development lifecycle the one way we build – SDLC is out, ADLC is in. I want a partner to work out with me what an engineering org is when AI writes most of the code. Nobody has that playbook, yet. We get to co-author it, and help set patterns others copy. The shape: 5–7 teams, 30–40 engineers, led through Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers. You own technical direction, architecture and the engineering-quality bar, and co-own outcomes with Product and Design. You were an excellent engineer before you were a leader. Practical: Stockholm HQ, 3 days/week in office. Daily work is in English (50+ nationalities). No visa relocation sponsorship for this role. Apply here: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/mentimeter/jobs/4908946101 – please mention that you came from HN.