Department: R&D
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Copenhagen
Reporting To: Director of Engineering
Factbird helps manufacturers turn real-time production data into decisions they can actually act on. Since 2016, we've helped manufacturers in 28 countries cut waste, boost uptime, and run smarter — from the shop floor to the boardroom. Over 300 companies trust us to make sense of their operations, and we're a team of 80+ people across Copenhagen and the US who care about making complex things simple.
We're creating a new role at the top of our Engineering career ladder: Lead Architect. It's the senior end of our Technical Track — the rung above Tech Lead — and today it's a role we've deliberately left lightly defined, because we want the first person in it to help define it. You'll set Factbird's technical direction: architecture, tooling, and the multi-year technology bets that shape where the product goes next.
This is our most senior technical role, with no direct reports — your authority comes from judgment and track record, not the org chart. You'll work alongside our Tech Leads in Factbird's technical leadership group, partner closely with our Director of Engineering, and be the person other senior engineers go to when a decision is genuinely hard to reverse.
As Lead Architect, you own Factbird's company-wide technical vision: the architecture our services run on, the tooling and standards our engineers use every day, and the long-term technology strategy that ties it all together. You make (or sign off on) the architectural principles and decisions needed to support our business goals and you are accountable for getting them right within the full context of where the business is headed.
You'll work across a team that builds on Rust, React, Node.js, and AWS, with AI-assisted development already a core part of how we work. Some of the responsibilities of the role are already well-defined — reviewing major changes, stewarding language and platform standards, setting the team's AI-tooling strategy. Some of it isn't yet: Factbird is still a growing company, and part of the job is helping us figure out what technical leadership at this level should look like as we scale.
You'll thrive here if you'd rather be trusted with genuinely hard calls than manage a team, and if you can hold both the technical detail and the commercial context — cost, risk, market direction — well enough to set a tech direction you can still defend a year later.
We're looking for someone who's already earned this kind of trust somewhere else — someone whose technical opinions carry weight because they're right more often than not, and who'd rather solve the interesting, ambiguous problem than manage the team solving it.
People are at the heart of everything we build. We believe great products come from empowered teams — and we work hard to create an environment where you can do your best work and have space for life beyond it.
If this role feels like a match, we'd be excited to hear from you and explore how you could help shape the future of data collection and production monitoring at Factbird.
And if someone in your network comes to mind who might be a great fit — feel free to share this opportunity with them.
Have questions? You can always reach out to Cristina Vartej at crva@factbird.com
At Factbird, we believe that great work starts with people feeling respected, valued, and included. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
All employment decisions at Factbird are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without discrimination based on gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or family status, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable European and local employment laws.
We celebrate diversity in all its forms and believe that different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make our teams stronger and our work better. We warmly encourage all qualified candidates to apply and to bring their whole selves to Factbird.
Factbird helps Manufacturers maximize their performance through manufacturing intelligence from Operator to Process Engineer to Plant Manager.
We help customers to gather, manage, and analyze production data from any machine or process to improve operations. Manufacturing data can be analyzed in real time to detect quality issues, downtime, or bottlenecks and identify opportunities to increase productivity. Factbird empowers the manufacturing shop floor with structured data for anyone involved in production.
