Head of Engineering - AdminBolt (Remote, EU)

Bolt.com is a hosting control panel built for providers running fleets of servers: flat per-server pricing, in-place migration from cPanel and other panels, Cloud

Linux and Imunify360 officially supported, LiteSpeed integration, available on Digital

Ocean Marketplace. It runs on 10,000+ servers worldwide. We are looking for a Head of Engineering who will own delivery end to end: the team, the release schedule, quality, and communication.

You report directly to the CEO. What you will own Release process: a fixed release cadence, code freeze, go/no-go decisions. Releases ship on the planned day, unfinished work moves to the next one.

You run the team day to day: who works on what, in what order, and by when. Nobody waits for work, nobody works outside the plan. Quality: staging, testing and the release gate.

No release goes out with open High/Highest issues. Production customers: a defined SLA for fixes blocking hosting providers in production, and clear incident communication. Planning: estimates, release scope, and accountability for delivering it.

Weekly status to the CEO: what shipped, what slipped and why, risks. AI-native workflow for the whole team: a shared standard for agent-based development, not individual tooling preferences. Hiring and onboarding as the team grows.

Hands-on coding: roughly 30-50% of your time. What we expect 7+ years of backend engineering, PHP/Laravel strongly preferred. Solid Linux systems knowledge: packages, services, nginx, PHP-FPM, permiss