Head of Engineering

About the role

We founded Stardust to revolutionize how people experience and understand their cycles. Unlike conventional period trackers, Stardust blends scientific insights with wonder and ancient wisdom. Features include lunar cycle syncing, friend syncing, a best-in-class pregnancy experience, and a partner option. More than five million people use Stardust, and we’re just getting started. The Head of Engineering will join the leadership team and report to the CEO. They will lead technology across iOS, Android, web, backend, data, infrastructure, and security.We’re a design-led company. This role requires someone who cares as much about how a product feels as how it’s built. This is a fully remote role. Our team is concentrated in New York, California, and Istanbul, Turkey.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO to turn product vision into technical strategy, roadmaps, and execution.
• Understand the needs of our customers and translate them into technology decisions that improve their experience.
• Lead the strategy for improving Stardust’s prediction models and personalized insights at scale.
• Identify and integrate emerging AI capabilities into the core product.
• Bring strong product judgment and design taste to every technical decision.
• Move fluently between code, systems, and company strategy.
• Lead, grow, and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team with clear structure, expectations, and career paths.
• Lead the transition to agent-driven development, with verification, review, and QA systems that allow agents to write production code reliably.
• Redesign how engineering plans, ships, and measures its work to deliver an order-of-magnitude increase in velocity.
• Shape how engineering, product, and design work together as engineering capacity expands.
• Serve as a player-coach who can go deep in the code, set a high bar, and develop strong people.
• Own incident management, reliability, and the operating rhythms required to sustain greater velocity.
• Own architecture and infrastructure across iOS, Android, web, backend, and data.
• Ensure systems remain resilient, performant, secure, and cost-effective at scale.
• Own privacy, security, data governance, and compliance by setting and enforcing clear standards across engineering systems and practices.
• Set the long-term technical strategy and make deliberate tradeoffs between speed, innovation, and technical debt.

Qualifications

• You’ve led an engineering organization through meaningful growth in a mobile-first consumer company.
• You’re currently hands-on with agentic coding and have clear evidence that your workflow ships reliable production code.
• You can represent technology at the leadership level and serve as a strong thought partner to the CEO.
• You understand how engineering, product, and design should work together in an AI-native, design-led company.
• You’re a first-principles thinker who can take ambiguous initiatives from idea to launch.
• You bring strong product judgment and hold a high bar for craft.
• You’re motivated by Stardust’s mission to help people understand their cycles and bodies.