Head of Engineering

As Head of Engineering, you'll lead the people side of our engineering organization. You'll own people leadership and delivery across these teams, reporting to the CTO. Your reports are a group of engineers plus a couple of team leads.

What you'll do

• Lead the team: Manage the engineers reporting to you directly, and coach your team leads
• Streamline execution: Audit and improve development processes to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce waste, and increase team predictability and velocity
• Set people standards: Define consistent and fair approaches to performance, feedback, career growth, and onboarding, while ensuring teams are structured effectively and people are aligned to the highest-impact opportunities
• Connect up and across: Give leadership clear, regular updates on progress and risks, and translate company strategy into what your teams actually work on
• Stay technically sharp: Weigh in on architecture and technical direction with your teams, and keep close enough to the code to make good calls and earn trust
• Support the vision: Work with the CTO to shape and communicate engineering strategy, and help carry it through the org

What you'll need

• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience developing senior engineers and team leads, and a readiness to grow them into managers over time
• People-first leadership: You get energy from growing people, and you've built teams others want to join
• Strong background in software development, architecture, and systems design. You can effectively steer technical strategy, uphold engineering standards, and empower teams to own execution
• Comfortable with TypeScript and a React / Node.js stack, familiar with modern frameworks

What they offer

• 30 vacation days a year, plus public holidays
• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in Berlin office, rest from home; up to 50 days per year remote globally
• VESOP: Virtual Employee Stock Option Plan enrollment
• Daily chef-prepared meals in office, BVG ticket covered, Urban Sports Club M membership
• Annual L&D budget and German language classes
• Quarterly hackathons and annual Kittl Week gathering