Your Mission

Cyberattacks are no longer just emails or random phone calls.

Voice phishing, deepfakes, and AI-generated social engineering are evolving fast, powered by the same AI breakthroughs we’re using to fight back.

Your mission is to lead the development of one of Hoxhunt’s largest and most business-critical product areas: our adaptive simulation training engine. It is used by over 4 million people globally.

This is the system that turns the latest threats into the right training moment for the right human automatically, reliably, and at massive scale.

Your Role

This role comes with clear ownership.

You are responsible for delivery in your product team and for turning product strategy into shipped outcomes. You keep scope focused, quality high, and momentum strong as complexity increases.

You shape the technical direction so the team can build a system that stays fast, reliable, and maintainable as scale and as AI complexity grow. This includes architectural choices that support long-term resilience rather than short-term heroics.

You raise the team’s AI engineering maturity. You help the team use modern AI tools in daily development, and you ensure AI-powered features are production-grade, measurable, and trusted.

You work closely with Product Management to shape the roadmap and keep the team focused on solving the real problem behind it, driving toward measurable behavior change.

You lead a product-focused engineering team by setting direction, raising standards, and supporting people’s growth while staying close enough to the work to remain grounded and credible.

What You’ll Do

• Lead delivery of large, ambiguous initiatives and turn strategy into shipped outcomes without sacrificing reliability.

• Set technical direction at scale and make pragmatic architecture decisions across data flows, event-driven systems, APIs, observability, reliability, and performance for a product used by millions - and the user is growing rapidly with the company growth.

• Work hands-on in our production stack using Node.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, MongoDB, and GCP to stay close to the system and the team.

• Build AI into both the product and the way the team ships, including adaptive simulations, reasoning layers, evaluation practices, feedback loops, monitoring, and guardrails.

• Partner closely with Product Management to shape priorities and ensure engineering effort translates into real-world behavior change.

• Act as a strong cross-functional link between engineering, product, and design, keeping alignment tight and trade-offs explicit.

• Raise the bar for the team by improving code quality, developing technical skills, and helping grow the team with the right competencies as the product scales.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven hands-on experience in a Tech Lead position or as an Engineering Manager with a small product team. You lead by building, not by abstraction.

• A strong track record of shipping and operating high-scale SaaS systems with real availability, latency, and data quality expectations.

• Full-stack technical competence across distributed and event-driven systems, APIs, and production operations including observability, incident response, and performance tuning.

• Strong product and engineering judgment. You can balance speed with sustainability and know when to simplify.

• Demonstrated ability to raise the bar through mentoring, setting standards, and building a delivery system that scales with the team.

• Practical, production-grade AI or LLM engineering experience, or strong evidence you can ramp up fast. You have shipped AI-driven capabilities with reliability, measurement, and safety in mind.

Bonus Points

• Experience with personalization or adaptive systems such as recommendations, optimization loops, segmentation, or risk scoring.

• Experience building agentic or reasoning-layer capabilities, including guardrails and evaluation practices.

• Familiarity with the security domain, including phishing, email ecosystems, threat intelligence, or abuse prevention.

• Experience scaling global user-facing systems with localization, multi-region considerations, or multi-tenant complexity.

The Real Challenges You’ll Tackle

• Keeping product and technical alignment tight as complexity and speed increase.

• Evolving an existing production codebase while shipping new AI-native capabilities.

• Staying ahead as tools, models, and scale pressures evolve faster than teams naturally can.

• Balancing experimentation with the expectations of a trusted, widely used global product.

• Resilience, curiosity, and proactive communication matter just as much as technical skill.

Why Join Hoxhunt?

This is human protection at scale.

You will work on one of the few AI-native security products where correctness, trust, and scale genuinely matter. The product is already recognized, already trusted, and already used by over millions of people, and you will help shape its next phase as AI reshapes both attacks and defenses.

If you want to build systems that matter, at real scale, with real impact and clear purpose, this is that role.

Location and Salary Range

This role is based in Helsinki, and we work in a hybrid setup.

The compensation range for this position is €6,500–€7,500 per month, depending on experience.

Our Recruitment Process

1. Meeting with Talent Acquisition (30 min, remote)

2. Meeting with VP of Engineering (45 min, remote)

3. Assignment and Panel Interview (90 min, onsite)

4. Meeting with the CTO (30 min, remote)

5. References

Ready to Apply?

If you are excited by ambiguity, scale, AI, and protecting humans in a rapidly changing threat landscape, we would love to hear from you.

Hoxhunt in a Nutshell

Hoxhunt was founded in 2016 by four visionaries. Today we are a team of over 200 amazing hoxhunters advancing one of the hottest scale-up companies in the human risk management category, with locations in Finland, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Hoxhunt is one of the fastest growing software companies in Finland, premiering in the Deloitte Fast 50 rankings for three consecutive years.

Hoxhunt educates employees on how to protect themselves and their employers against malicious cyberattacks. Our core belief is that the best way to do this is through frequent, personalized, and behavior-changing cybersecurity training. We have been featured in CIO Magazine, Forbes, Inc., EU-Startups, and many more publications.

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