# Lead, Product Engineering

> HugoBank · Karachi, Pakistan · Full-time · Posted 2026-04-29

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Technology & Data

## Description

We are seeking a hands-on Lead, Product Engineering with a strong product mindset to lead the development and evolution of consumer-facing digital products.

This role requires deep technical expertise, leadership capability, and ownership across the full stack—application and infrastructure. The ideal candidate has built and scaled real-world consumer products, demonstrates strong engineering judgment, and is comfortable challenging product requirements to deliver better solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring active involvement in architecture, coding, and engineering practices—not just team management.

**Responsibilities:**

-   Lead end-to-end product engineering for consumer-facing and backend systems
-   Take ownership of existing platforms and drive improvements in scalability, reliability, and performance
-   Contribute hands-on to application development, architecture design, and infrastructure (cloud & IaC)
-   Define and enforce coding standards, design principles, and engineering best practices
-   Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Business teams to refine requirements and challenge assumptions
-   Build, mentor, and manage high-performing engineering teams
-   Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, and automation-first practices
-   Ensure systems meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements (especially in a banking environment)
-   Own architectural decision-making and drive long-term platform scalability, resilience, and engineering strategy
-   Ensure production stability, operational excellence, and incident ownership for critical systems

### AI-Augmented Engineering & Vibe Coding Culture

At HugoBank, we recognize that AI-assisted development is now a core part of modern engineering workflows.

We support the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, and Claude to enhance productivity, accelerate development, and improve developer experience.

However, we emphasize that:

-   AI tools are accelerators, not substitutes for engineering thinking
-   Engineers must fully understand, validate, and own all generated code
-   Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving remain essential

As a Lead, you will:

-   Define best practices for responsible AI-assisted development
-   Guide teams on effective and secure use of AI tools
-   Ensure AI improves quality, maintainability, and security—not just speed
-   Build a culture of AI-augmented engineering with strong ownership and accountability

### Team Development & Engineering Culture

The Lead, Product Engineering will help shape a high-performing engineering organization by:

1.  AI-Augmented Engineering: Promote responsible AI usage with clear guardrails, ensuring validation, security compliance, and avoidance of blind copy-paste development
2.  Engineering Fundamentals: Strengthen system design, distributed systems, data structures, and debugging skills while balancing AI-driven speed with engineering depth
3.  Engineering Standards: Drive clean code practices, robust testing, CI/CD maturity, and structured design thinking
4.  Mentorship & Growth: Develop engineers across all levels in cloud-native development, microservices, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted workflows
5.  Ownership Culture: Foster end-to-end ownership, production accountability, and continuous improvement mindset

## Requirements

-   Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
-   12–15+ years of experience in software/product engineering
-   3–5+ years of experience in a leadership role
-   Proven experience in building and scaling consumer-facing digital products
-   Strong hands-on experience in modern programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, Go)
-   Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native architectures
-   Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
-   Experience with microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
-   Strong understanding of secure coding and cloud security principles
-   Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and release management
-   Demonstrated ability to lead teams while remaining technically hands-on
-   Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills

### Preferred Qualifications

-   Experience in fintech, digital banking, or regulated environments
-   Exposure to high-scale, high-availability systems
-   Familiarity with compliance, security, and data protection requirements

## Apply

[Apply at HugoBank](https://apply.workable.com/hugobank/j/D5BB5326A7/apply)

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