Senior Tech Lead

About InfluencyIQ

InfluencyIQ is a marketing intelligence platform being built to help brands understand not just what happened across their marketing activity, but what appears to have contributed to the outcome.

The platform connects data across paid media, social, search, ecommerce, CRM and analytics, then applies a proprietary Intelligence Engine to identify relationships, attribution, lag, pathways, confounders and evidence of contribution.

We are approaching launch and are now looking for our first senior internal technical hire. The product is currently being developed with an external development team and a senior measurement/data-science specialist to formalise and validate the analytical methodology behind the Intelligence Engine.

The Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. We are not looking for a purely managerial CTO or someone who wants to operate several layers away from the code.

We need someone who can understand the current platform in detail, challenge technical decisions where necessary, improve the architecture, contribute directly to engineering work and provide strong internal technical ownership as the company moves from development into launch and scale.

You will inherit an existing codebase and architecture rather than starting from scratch, so pragmatism will be important. The role is about understanding what is already strong, identifying what needs to change and avoiding unnecessary rebuilds.

Location: Dublin, Ireland preferred / hybrid-flexible

Type: Full-time

Salary: €80,000-€90,000 DOE

Reporting to: Founder & CEO

Key Responsibilities

Technical ownership

• Take internal ownership of InfluencyIQ's technical architecture and engineering standards.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the existing codebase, infrastructure, integrations and data architecture.
• Review the current platform architecture and identify technical debt, scalability risks, security issues and areas requiring improvement.
• Make pragmatic decisions around what should be retained, refactored or rebuilt.
• Ensure the platform is technically ready for launch and capable of scaling beyond the initial customer base.

Hands-on engineering

• Remain close to the code and contribute directly where required.
• Build or support features, integrations and platform improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and unblock development.
• Review pull requests and contribute to code quality.
• Support data pipelines, API integrations, database design and backend systems.
• Help improve testing, deployment and production-readiness processes.

Architecture and platform development

• Own and evolve the platform's technical architecture.
• Ensure the data model can support Organisation, Project and Campaign-level analysis.
• Support the implementation of the proprietary Intelligence Engine alongside the measurement-science lead.
• Ensure analytical and statistical methods can be implemented cleanly within the production environment.
• Maintain clear separation between raw source data, analysis-ready data and structured analytical findings.
• Ensure architecture supports auditability, versioning, provenance and future longitudinal learning.

Technical oversight of external development

• Work closely with our external development team.
• Independently assess development progress and technical quality.
• Review architecture and implementation decisions.
• Challenge estimates or technical approaches where appropriate.
• Help prioritise and sequence development work.
• Ensure external engineering remains aligned with InfluencyIQ's long-term architecture and product requirements.
• Reduce dependency on any single external supplier by building internal technical knowledge and ownership.

Delivery and launch readiness

• Work closely with the Founder to translate product requirements into practical technical plans.
• Assess technical dependencies, delivery risk and realistic timelines.
• Support launch-critical work across Campaign Analytics, Campaign Library, multi-account architecture, integrations and the Intelligence Engine.
• Ensure production monitoring, reliability, security and deployment processes are appropriate for a live SaaS platform.
• Help establish the engineering processes required as the internal team grows.

What we're looking for

You are likely to be a senior engineer or existing Technical Lead who still enjoys building.

You should have strong experience across:

• full-stack software engineering, with particular strength in backend development;
• designing and maintaining APIs and third-party integrations;
• data-intensive SaaS platforms;
• relational databases and data modelling;
• scalable cloud infrastructure;
• architecture and code review;
• debugging complex production systems;
• testing and deployment;
• working with existing codebases and improving them incrementally.

You should be comfortable moving between strategic architecture decisions and detailed implementation. You also need to be able to explain technical issues clearly to a non-technical Founder and turn product requirements into sensible engineering decisions.

Particularly valuable experience

Experience in any of the following would be useful, although not essential:

• martech or adtech;
• marketing analytics or business intelligence;
• social-media or advertising APIs;
• ecommerce / CRM integrations;
• data pipelines and event-driven systems;
• AI / LLM-enabled products;
• statistics, experimentation or marketing measurement;
• attribution or incrementality;
• early-stage SaaS businesses;
• working with external development teams.

How the role fits into the team

The initial product and technical leadership group will consist of:

Founder & CEO

Product vision, commercial strategy, customer insight and company direction.

Measurement / Data Science Lead

Owns the measurement methodology, analytical framework, statistical validation and evolution of the proprietary Intelligence Engine.

Senior Tech Lead

Owns the technical architecture, engineering quality, implementation and productionisation of the product and Intelligence Engine.

The Senior Tech Lead will work closely with the external development team, who currently provide the core external engineering capacity. The intention is not for this role to replace that team. It is to give InfluencyIQ strong internal technical ownership while also adding additional hands-on engineering capacity.

Longer-term opportunity

This is expected to become a significant technical leadership position as InfluencyIQ grows. The immediate focus is technical ownership, launch readiness and hands-on engineering. Over time, the role may expand into broader responsibility for the internal engineering team, architecture, infrastructure and technical strategy as the company scales.