Research Engineering Lead

TL;DR Most engineering leadership roles ask you to trade the craft for the title. This one doesn’t. We’re hiring engineering managers who run organizations of 30+ and still know what their strongest engineers are working on this week. You’ll think end-to-end about the business, lead a workforce of humans and AI agents that’s rewriting what an engineering org even looks like, and stay close enough to the code to drop in as a tech lead when a problem demands it. WHY LOVABLE? Lovable lets anyone and everyone build software with any language. From solopreneurs to Fortune 100 teams, millions of people use Lovable to transform raw ideas into real products — fast. We’re at the forefront of a foundational shift in software creation, which means you have an unprecedented opportunity to change the way the digital world works. Lovable-built applications and websites are visited hundreds of millions of times a month, and our enterprise footprint is compounding fast. And we’re just getting started. We’re a small, talent-dense team building a generation-defining company from Stockholm. We value extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We seek out people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world. WHAT THIS ROLE IS AND WHAT IT ISN’T * It is a senior engineering leadership role with scope. You’ll run an organization that spans product, platform, and applied AI - with other managers, senior engineers, and AI agents reporting in - and you’ll be accountable for what that organization ships, how it operates, and the business outcomes it drives. * It is still close enough to the work that you can drop into a Tech Lead role on a hard problem when the situation demands it. We don’t measure leadership IC time as a percentage. We measure it as the ability to pick up the work and ship at the bar you’re asking of your team. * It isn’t a role for managers who think of themselves as engineering-adjacent. You need to be credible in code, design, and on-call - and you need to want to be. * It isn’t a role for leaders who only think about engineering. We expect you to reason end-to-end about the business - economics, product, GTM, customers - and to make calls that are best for the company, not just best for your team. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * 15+ years of engineering experience, including 6+ years of people management at a pre-IPO startup, scale-up or frontier tech company, and at least 2 years of managing managers. Strong IC track record before management. * You’ve run an engineering organization of 30+ with managers and senior engineers reporting in. You can speak concretely about how you structured the org, how you hired up to that scale, and what you’d do differently. * Still hands-on at the Tech Lead level: you can pick up an unfamiliar codebase, design and ship a non-trivial change, run an incident, and review code at a high bar. You haven’t let your engineering muscle atrophy. * You’ve thought hard about humans and AI agents on the same team. What humans should and shouldn’t delegate. How productivity gets measured when the unit of work is shifting. Strong opinions, lightly held. * Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity at an organisational level, not just technically. You write the doc that aligns three teams instead of waiting for someone else to. * Deep technical credibility in at least one area - full-stack product (React/TypeScript + Go/Rust), platform and developer experience (Kubernetes, sandboxing, observability, CI/CD, application frameworks), or applied AI (training, evals, agent systems, model serving). * Cross-functional to your core and business-fluent: you work seamlessly across design, product, and go-to-market, and know how to bring people along with you; andable to reason end-to-end about unit economics, product strategy, GTM, and customer outcomes * Track record of building and growing teams: you’ve hired senior engineers others wanted to work with, grown managers under you who became great in their own right, and set up career growth and performance practices that didn’t require constant maintenance. People follow you between companies. * Based in Stockholm or London or ready to relocate — this is an on-site, 5-days-a-week role. WHAT YOU’LL DO In one sentence: Run the engineering organization that builds Lovable - humans and agents both - and stay close enough to the work to be the senior engineer in the room when it matters. * Lead engineering. Product, platform, and applied AI under one roof. Own the roadmap and the business outcomes the org is on the hook for. * Set technical direction across the org: drive the design docs and architectural decisions that span teams, push back hard on weak plans (including your own), and hold a high bar for what ships. * Shape engineering culture: how we ship, how we write code, how we hire, how we deploy agents. Set norms that outlast any single project. * Ship fast: at Lovable the question is always “how fast can we get this to users?” You bias toward production and pull research, prototypes, and experiments into reality on the order of days and weeks, not quarters. * Build the operating model for an engineering org where humans and AI agents work side by side. We’re inventing this in public, and you’ll set the patterns the rest of the company learns from. * Operate as a peer to the executive team. Own outcomes that span beyond engineering, make the company’s biggest calls alongside the rest of leadership, and translate them back into engineering work that matters. OUR TECH STACK We’re building with tools that both humans and AI love: * Frontend: React, TypeScript * Backend: Go and Rust * Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, many LLM providers * Data: ClickHouse, Firestore, Spanner, BigQuery * DevOps & tooling: Kubernetes, gVisor-based sandboxing for agentic workloads, GitHub Actions, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Terraform * Local tooling: Nix, DevEnv And always on the lookout for what’s next. ABOUT YOUR APPLICATION * Please submit your application in English — it’s our company language, so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join. * We treat all candidates equally — if you’re interested, please apply through our careers portal.   READY TO JOIN US? 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About Kambi Kambi Group plc is a leading B2B provider of premium sports betting services to licensed gaming operators. Our services provide an end-to-end solution for operators wanting to launch a standalone Sportsbook or bolster their existing offering with an innovative sports betting product. From front-end user interface to customer intelligence, risk management and odds compiling, all built on our in-house developed software, we strive to deliver the ultimate service and solution to our partners. Our vision is to create the world’s leading sports betting experiences, together with our partners. Director of Product – Engagement and Retention Purpose Lead the product management of Kambi’s player and operator experience — how players discover, experience and stay engaged with our partners’ sportsbooks, and how operators market, differentiate and grow using our platform. This role drives partner growth through deep understanding of what creates player activity and operator profitability. Scope Product direction, prioritisation and outcomes across the full player journey and operator experience — from core betting flows and sports experiences through promotions, dynamic on-demand experiences, operator tooling, content ecosystem and retail. Key responsibilities Product direction and partner value * Shape the on-demand experience roadmap — guide capabilities through the on-demand journey with the long-term partner value lens, from first on-demand experiences through to dynamic experiences as a product category * Define and communicate the value of what we build — articulate why our product choices create partner growth, making every commercial conversation stronger Design, insight and evidence * Responsibility for design quality, user research and evidence-based product decisions. Product direction must be grounded in real insight — player behaviour data, partner feedback, experimentation — not gut feel * Own the insight loop: what did we ship, what did we learn, what do we do next * Drive experimentation culture across the team AI-driven discovery and product management * Embrace and drive AI as a core tool for how we do product management — from research and insight generation to prototyping, analysis and decision-making. Quickly mastering AI-driven ways of working is essential to the pace and quality we need Narrative, communication and commercial alignment * Work closely with commercial and marketing to align product plans, commercial narrative and external communications. The story we tell partners must be grounded in what we’re building — and what we build should be informed by what resonates commercially * Ensure product milestones translate into commercial momentum Capability shaping * Primary product stakeholder for front-end teams. Shared stakeholder for platform with our other product unit, Managed Trading Services * Together with the Managed Trading Services unit, ensure trading capability evolution supports the experience roadmap — particularly on-demand and promotional mechanics Profile A strong product leader with genuine commercial instinct. Credible with operators about their business, comfortable with data, able to hold their own in capability discussions with engineering leaders. Energised by turning a complex B2B sportsbook into something that demonstrably grows partner businesses. Experience in sports betting from both B2B and from the operator’s side is strongly preferred. Kambi's ongoing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace If you require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please notify your recruiter, who will assist you however they can. Diversity and inclusion is at the heart of who we are and who we aim to be. While we are proud of the positive and inclusive company culture we have created, we know we can do so much more. Kambi constantly evolves its Diversity and Inclusion strategy to ensure it becomes an even more inclusive and positive place to work, with the core management team reaffirming its commitment to delivering on employee feedback. Creating an inclusive environment We believe Kambi's greatest strength is the collective talent of our employees. Kambi is committed to ensuring we create an inclusive work environment where everyone can feel valued, thrive and achieve their potential, regardless of who they are or what their background is. We know that it is only by having a balance of different voices, values and opinions that Kambi is able to be the market leader it is today. #wearekambi