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Technical Lead

Factbird

Job Location:

Copenhagen - Denmark

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 10 September 2026 (5 days ago)

Application Deadline: 9 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Factbird helps manufacturers turn real-time production data into decisions they can actually act on. Since 2016 weve helped manufacturers in 28 countries cut waste boost uptime and run smarter from the shop floor to the boardroom. Over 300 companies trust us to make sense of their operations and were a team of 80 people across Copenhagen and the US who care about making complex things simple.

About the Role

Youll work across a team that builds on Rust React and AWS with AI-assisted development already a core part of how we work. Some of the responsibilities of the role are already well-defined reviewing major changes stewarding language and platform standards setting the teams AI-tooling strategy. Some of it isnt yet: Factbird is still a growing company and part of the job is helping us figure out what technical leadership at this level should look like as we scale.

Youll thrive here if youd rather be trusted with genuinely hard calls than manage a team and if you can hold both the technical detail and the commercial context cost risk market direction well enough to set a tech direction you can still defend a year later.

What youll do

Architecture & technical strategy

Own Factbirds multi-year technology strategy identify gaps to the desired architecture and drive the technical roadmap towards the target state while balancing cost risk and business content.
Make build-vs-buy calls for new technical capabilities and bring a clear point of view on emerging technologies worth adopting
Define our integration architecture towards customers existing systems and own our multi-tenancy and authorisation model across customer organisations. Set the public API strategy and ensure that our architecture is designed to meet requirements like SSO audit trails and fine-grained access.
Own and take proactive responsibility for our product and data architecture from ingestion through to storage retention and data residency commitments
Define the observability reliability and security posture of the platform in close alignment with our DevOps team and Security Engineer
Author and drive major changes from proposal through to an actual decision and review the highest-risk architecture changes across the team

Tooling & standards

Set the teams technical tooling and platform standards and keep them evolving as the stack and the company grow.
Define Factbirds strategy for AI-assisted development which tools we adopt how we balance velocity against code quality security and IP risk and where we draw the line
Help define shared components and reference architecture that other engineers build on rather than reinvent
Act as steward for our core languages and frameworks setting standards library choices and the platforms overall shape
Give input into technical org design and team topology as Engineering scales
Maintain and enforce a clear cost efficiency strategy balancing cost and utilisation of platform and tools.
Reinforce the architectural framework and principles as a guide to the development teams

Technical leadership & mentorship

Act as the trusted technical advisor to our Director of Engineering and the technical leadership group partnering with Tech Leads and Product Leads on cross-team alignment
Mentor Senior Engineers and Tech Leads toward architect-level thinking. Help set the technical bar used in hiring and career development.
Communicate technical vision and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders including cross-organisational leadership
Identify technical risks to the business early and say so before they become expensive
Represent Factbirds technical thinking externally where it makes sense a talk a blog post an open-source contribution though this isnt a requirement on day one

What were looking for

Were looking for someone whos already earned this kind of trust somewhere else someone whose technical opinions carry weight because theyre right more often than not and whod rather solve the interesting ambiguous problem than manage the team solving it.

The ideal background

8 years of hands-on engineering experience including real time spent as an architect or equivalent senior technical authority not just a senior engineer with a bigger title
A track record of owning multi-year technology strategy or platform architecture decisions that other teams had to live with and that held up
Has led major RFCs or architecture proposals cross-team through genuine pushback to an actual decision
Deep current expertise in cloud platforms and an advantage if you have working knowledge of interfacing to IoT devices
Experience with high volume data platforms
Systems-level programming depth: Rust or equivalent in C Go or C
Fluent with the architects toolkit: ADRs C4 or equivalent
Comfortable making build-vs-buy and technology-adoption calls that account for cost risk and where the market is heading not just whats technically interesting
Experience mentoring senior engineers or Tech Leads toward architect-level thinking without needing formal authority to do it
Practical current experience with AI-assisted development and a clear point of view on where it genuinely helps versus where it creates risk

Why Factbird

People are at the heart of everything we build. We believe great products come from empowered teams and we work hard to create an environment where you can do your best work and have space for life beyond it.

Heres what you can look forward to:

Flexible working hours: We trust you to manage your time. Life isnt one-size-fits-all and neither is work.
Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills experience and impact.
Internet reimbursement: Stay connected and productive wherever you choose to work from.
Thoughtful human onboarding: Well support you step by step giving you the context tools and guidance you need to feel confident from day one.
A career path that grows with you: Through bi-yearly Individual Development Plan conversations well work together to shape a career journey that fits your ambitions.
Company-wide gatherings & team days: We regularly come together across teams and regions to connect celebrate and align on whats next.
A global inclusive culture: Were proud of our diverse backgrounds and perspectives and we actively celebrate them in how we work and collaborate.

Wed love to hear from you

If this role feels like a match wed be excited to hear from you and explore how you could help shape the future of data collection and production monitoring at Factbird.

And if someone in your network comes to mind who might be a great fit feel free to share this opportunity with them.

Have questions You can always reach out to Cristina Vartej at

At Factbird we believe that great work starts with people feeling respected valued and included. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

All employment decisions at Factbird are made based on business needs role requirements and individual qualifications without discrimination based on gender gender identity or expression age disability marital or family status nationality ethnic or social origin religion or belief sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable European and local employment laws.

We celebrate diversity in all its forms and believe that different backgrounds perspectives and experiences make our teams stronger and our work better. We warmly encourage all qualified candidates to apply and to bring their whole selves to Factbird.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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