Senior Engineer || Product-Focused Technical Leader

Partytrick is transforming how brands, businesses, and communities plan and execute events at scale. We are on a mission to power in-person experiences that build community and connection across a $322B market.

Why Partytrick

• Led by one of the top event planners in the world with deep industry knowledge and a black book full of connections, we’re poised to disrupt events and experiential marketing just as Shopify disrupted e-comm. 
• Our product is a content-rich project management software that delivers business intelligence and powers repeatable events at scale. 

• Impact – You’ll play a foundational role in scaling a high-growth SaaS platform. 
• Ownership – You’ll be a key decision-maker, shaping the product and team from the ground up.
• Culture – We are ambitious, collaborative, and focused on delivering real value to users.
• Growth – This role has a clear path to becoming our Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

About this Role:

• We are a remote team with core leadership in Colorado/New York/California. 
  
  • Or, move to Aspen and base yourself here with the founder nearly FT in one of the most inspiring places in America. 
  • You must be a  US Resident or have US Residency. 
• We’re looking for a product-focused technical leader who is eager to take ownership, drive innovation, and scale our product as we expand our enterprise B2B offering.
• An opportunity to build, lead, and shape the future of Partytrick - revolutionizing how businesses, brands, and consumers host. 
• The ideal candidate is a senior engineer with deep technical expertise and strong product intuition, who has worked at a top-tier tech company and is looking for the opportunity to step into a Technical Lead / CTO role. 

What You’ll Do:

• Own the technical vision and execution—drive the strategy, architecture, and scalability of Partytrick’s platform.
• Hire and manage an engineering team, setting clear goals and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Balance product and technical priorities, ensuring rapid iteration without sacrificing long-term scalability.
• Oversee our technology stack, API integrations, and infrastructure, ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success) to align technical decisions with business goals. 
• You should be comfortable working in the codebase, directing the product, and steering the high-level technical strategy.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies, leveraging new tools and frameworks to enhance our platform.

Who You Are:

• A strong product thinker—you understand not just the technology, but also how users interact with it.
• Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and passionate about process optimization, efficiency, and the future of work. You operate with a sense of urgency.
• A strong desire to solve for automation of the tedious and mundane to allow strategic work and creativity and connection to flourish. 
• An experienced technical leader with a track record of building and scaling SaaS or marketplace products.
• Someone who loves to build from scratch—willing to code, architect, and optimize while also thinking strategically. You are tactical and pragmatic. 
• Data-driven first-principles thinker with a knack for getting to the heart of a goal. 
• A future CTO in the making—you aspire to lead a team and scale a high-growth product.
• Gritty, curious, and aligned with our vision—you thrive in fast-moving environments and are passionate about creating intuitive, scalable technology.
  
  • You see the opportunities that arise from healthy conflict and dialogue.

What You Bring

• A product-first mindset—you make decisions that balance user needs and business growth.
• An eye for cutting down requirements to the most impactful, weighing business impact, complexity, and team skillset availability to most effectively prioritize work.
• Expertise with data architecture.
• 5-10+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, ideally at a B2B SaaS, marketplace, or consumer tech company.
• Strong experience with API integrations, cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or similar), and platform scalability.
• Experience leading or overseeing the build-out of a mobile app.
• Experience working with marketing platforms (SMS, push, email, affiliates, banners, etc.).
• A track record of hiring and mentoring engineers—you know how to build a high-performing team.
• Deep technical expertise in a modern tech stack (we currently use GCP; experience with similar stacks is welcome).
• A strong sense of ownership—you take initiative and are comfortable in a high-autonomy role but also a team player. EXTREME ownership.
  
  

Compensation Range:

• $150k-250k
• + opportunity for meaningful equity

About the tech stack + architecture:

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