We're Creative Fabrica, a fast-scaling tech start-up from Amsterdam.
Our mission
Enable creativity by giving access to everything related to the creative process: inspiration, learning, creating, and sharing. The ‘Creative Inspiration Flywheel’
This creates a self-sustaining community that lives within the Creative Fabrica ecosystem.
About the platform
We launched in 2016 as a marketplace for fonts with a subscription service. In the last 8 years, we have been through tremendous growth, and we're just getting started!
We have scaled to 50 million+ monthly page views, 8 million+ registrations, over 22 million listed products, and 22000+ active designers.
Our focus is to create a platform for designers that enables them to offer exceptional high-quality content. We make their products searchable in unique ways. This allows our customers to speed up their workflow, allowing them to focus on what they love most: Creating.
About the Team and our Products
The App teams are focused on the Creative Fabrica user products and experiences. Our current primary project is on developing Studio, an easy to use, browser-based all-in-one design platform for crafters, designers, educators, print-on-demand, and business owners.
Studio is integrated into the Creative Fabrica platform and offers a vast collection of pre-made design templates. These templates enable users to create a wide range of designs, including fonts, ads, book covers, cards, coupons, social media designs, invitation cards, postcards, noposters, tickets, and much more.
It is also equipped with all the necessary intelligent tools designed to simplify the creative process, such as Background Remover, SVG File Converter, PNG Resizer, PNG to SVG converter, and many others.
It leverages all Creative Fabrica AI capabilities to provide AI-based asset generation, inpainting and image enhancements.
About the Role
As Head of App Engineering, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and leading the engineering teams to deliver high-quality applications. Your role will involve not only managing the day-to-day operations of the engineering teams but also strategically guiding their growth and development. This includes recruiting top talent, mentoring team members, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
You will work closely with product managers to contribute to the product roadmap, ensuring that engineering efforts align with business goals and customer needs. Your input will be crucial in defining technical requirements, setting priorities, and making key decisions that shape the future of our products.
Additionally, you will be a key member of the senior engineering leadership team. In this capacity, you will collaborate closely with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to drive productivity, enhance collaboration, and implement best engineering practices across the organization. This includes developing and enforcing coding standards, improving development processes, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our applications.
Your leadership will be pivotal in creating a cohesive engineering strategy that supports our company’s mission and objectives. By leveraging your expertise, you will help elevate our engineering capabilities and ensure we continue to deliver innovative solutions that meet the needs of our users.
What you'll Need
Experience:
- 5+ years as a product-minded engineering leader in software product companies.
- Proven track record in building, scaling and inspiring dynamic teams of 15+ engineers.
- Proven track record of successfully building and launching products from scratch (0 to 1).
- Experience with complex graphical web apps and understanding of frontend limitations and capabilities, particularly graphic design tools (such as Canva, Figma, Miro, Adobe Express, etc), or HTML5 games.
Technical Skills:
- Strong UX/frontend mindset with hands-on experience in developing and managing frontend-rich products and web apps.
- Deep understanding of web app technology, frontend limitations, and capabilities.
- Knowledge of computer graphics in general, and Web graphics in particular (HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, WASM, WebGPU, CSS3 animations).
Desired Mindset
- Passionate about UX and building products users love.
- Mature, hands-on approach with the ability to complement the efforts of product owners.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to organize backlogs and motivate teams.
- Strategic thinker committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Proactive in seeking feedback and kind in giving it.
- Lunch: On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.
- 30 ‘focus days’ where you can work remotely and hybrid work options.
- 24 days of paid vacation per year + public holidays.
- Travel Allowance, if you live more than 10 KM from the office.
- Company pension plan.
- CF Library
- L&D for Tech Division
- Company events and overseas trips!
- New Joiner Swag Pack!
Is this you?
Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.
You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.
Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
