Head of Engineering (Berlin, hybrid)

As Head of Engineering, you'll lead the people side of our engineering organization. You'll own people leadership and delivery across teams, reporting to the CTO, managing engineers directly and developing team leads into stronger leaders while keeping delivery moving.

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

• Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years managing engineering teams
• Growing leaders: 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
• Technical depth: Strong background in software development, architecture, and systems design. You can effectively steer technical strategy, uphold engineering standards, and empower teams to own execution
• Stack: Comfortable with TypeScript and a React / Node.js stack, familiar with modern frameworks

What they offer

• Flexible working hours with core hours 11am–5pm CET
• Up to 50 days fully remote per year from anywhere in the world
• Up to 30 vacation days per year
• Learning & development budget for professional growth
• Quarterly hackathons and annual Kittl Week
• BVG public transport ticket and Urban Sports Club membership discount