• Growing our engineering team from 10 to 15-20 within the next year • Fostering the culture of the engineering team (special challenges: fully remote, distributed, non-profit, open-source, ambitious, mission-driven organization which is pre-product market fit) • Mentoring tech leads • Working with the engineering team to cultivate an engineering vision and strategy which can deliver on the Chief Product Officer’s product roadmap and OpenMined’s overall mission • Final signoff on timeline estimates for features and for cultivating a team which can meet timelines (and manage expectations when timelines need adjusting) • Ensure that each member of the engineering team is aligned to the engineering strategy — and to OpenMined’s mission overall • Own the long term robustness and security of the software built by OpenMined • Manage the tradeoff between the forward advancement of the codebase and the accumulation of technical debt • Managing uncertainty and people experiencing uncertainty • Collaborating with the leadership team to create the organization’s strategic plan, including long-term, annual, and quarterly goals • Responsible for the quality of the codebase delivered to users — expected to write some code while also performing management duties