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People Leadership and Team Building 

• Build and lead Landmark’s permanent engineering organization in Oslo — owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention as the team scales from its current footprint to a full in-house function. 
• Set and hold a high, consistent hiring bar; personally drive recruitment for the senior roles that anchor the team, and design the interview process and technical assessment that everyone else is hired against. 
• Manage a mixed team of permanent staff and external consultants, transitioning critical knowledge in-house and reducing key-person and vendor dependency over time. 
• Create the team’s operating rhythm — one-to-ones, technical reviews, planning, and feedback loops — and build a culture where engineers have high ownership and clear technical accountability. 

Technical Leadership and Architecture 

• Act as a working software architect: make and review system design decisions, set technical direction across the stack, and own the architectural roadmap for the application and its services. 
• Provide credible technical leadership and review — design proposals, architectural decisions, and cross-cutting technical trade-offs — and raise the engineering quality bar through that engagement rather than from a distance. 
• Own the technical standards of the codebase: API and service design, data modelling, event-driven patterns, and the code-review and engineering practices that keep a growing team productive. 
• Partner with product management and domain science to translate the art of the possible into a technical strategy, and feed engineering insight back into what the product should become. 
• Delivery and Execution 
• Own how the team ships: delivery practices, quality gates, and the pace and predictability of releases across the engineering organization you lead. 
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery — short-lived branches, frequent integration, strong automated testing, and small, frequent increments — partnering with the DevOps and Developer Experience functions on CI/CD and environment reliability. 
• Remove structural blockers to delivery, balance feature work against platform and technical-debt investment, and make the trade-offs visible to stakeholders. 
• AI-First Engineering 
• Make AI-assisted and agentic development a first-class part of how the team works — setting expectations, sharing patterns, and ensuring engineers use modern AI coding tools effectively in their daily work. 
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture in hiring, onboarding, and day-to-day practice, and partner with the Developer Experience function on tooling, policy, and enablement. 

• Master’s degree in a STEM discipline — Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field. (A Master’s-level qualification is a requirement for this role.) 
• 12+ years across software engineering and engineering leadership, with a strong technical foundation and demonstrated depth in building and shipping software. 
• Experience managing and growing engineering teams of 10+ people, including hiring, performance management, and career development. 
• Demonstrated ability to act as a software or solution architect — making system design decisions, reviewing architectural proposals, and setting technical direction with credibility. 
• Experience leading across organizational boundaries, including mixed teams of permanent staff and external partners or consultants. 
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows and a commitment to building an AI-first engineering culture. 

Preferred 

• Familiarity with a modern cloud-native stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js, .NET, Azure, Kubernetes), or a track record of getting up to speed with new technologies quickly. 
• Experience transitioning a team or product toward a permanent, in-house engineering organization, or otherwise leading significant organizational change. 
• Experience driving modern delivery practices — continuous integration, incremental delivery, automated testing, and Agile/Scrum at scale. 
• Background in large-scale enterprise software or complex technical and industrial domains. 
• A track record of building and developing engineering talent and scaling a team while raising its quality bar. 

Why Landmark 

This role is the cornerstone of a deliberate, well-sponsored investment in building a permanent engineering organization in Oslo. You will have a real team, real budget, and the authority to shape it from the foundation up. 
We build small, high-ownership teams and invest in the quality of every person on them. Engineers here co-author the product strategy alongside product management and domain science: the art of the possible is an engineering contribution, not a function that sits upstream. You will work in a business where software is the product, solving technically demanding problems in a domain where your improvements have visible, measurable impact. We offer competitive compensation including bonus and long-term incentive programs, and the scope to build something that lasts.