Head of Engineering
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Position Overview & Specifications
Your mission
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to take full ownership of our technology and lead a small, senior engineering team. You set the technical direction, keep the quality bar high, and make sure we keep shipping, as a close sparring partner to our founders and product leadership. You lead the team day to day and still roll up your sleeves when a problem needs your hands on it.
Your responsibilities
- Lead a small, highly experienced engineering team (5 people): set clear priorities, delegate real ownership, and keep people growing through 1:1s, code-review guidance, and technical sparring.
- Own engineering quality: reliable standards, architectural reviews, production readiness, and the final gate before release.
- Act as technical sparring partner for founders, product, and design, and drive delivery end-to-end: from solution design to production, in short cycles, including advancing our SaaS onboarding.
- Oversee the architecture across distributed systems, APIs, desktop applications, our AWS infrastructure and internal DevOps platform, and a multi-repository codebase with solid infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability behind it.
- Own security and compliance in practice: ISO continuity, least-privilege access, secrets management, PKI, and supply-chain security, including recurring audits and technical due diligence.
- Push our production AI support agent further: more automated ticket resolution, production-grade RAG, tool calling, evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring.
Your profile
- 10+ years in software engineering, with proven experience leading and developing a small, senior team.
- You’ve grown up in early-stage startups (seed to Series B) and know that stage, a purely corporate or enterprise background wouldn’t be the right fit here.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, solid with Python and PostgreSQL, and confident across APIs, distributed systems, production debugging, and multi-repo setups.
- Advanced AWS knowledge and real ownership of cloud-native production: infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, plus a practical security mindset and calm judgement during incidents.
- Production experience with AI agents: RAG, tool calling, workflow automation, evaluations, guardrails, monitoring, approached as software engineering, not model training or ML research.
- Product-minded and pragmatic: business-focused judgement, no overengineering, and a high shipping cadence. Fluent in English (C1); German is a plus.
Nice to have:
- Desktop applications: Electron, native macOS and Windows apps, gRPC, mTLS, secure storage, code signing, automated updates, and staged rollouts.
- Direct involvement in ISO certification, recurring audits, and technical due diligence.
Why us?
- High impact and real ownership from day one: no bureaucracy, no endless approval loops.
- A small, ambitious team in Berlin and Munich, backed by top European VCs including Atomico and Cherry Ventures.
- Competitive salary + virtual share package (VSOP).
- Benefits: public transport ticket or Urban Sports Club/EGYM, Corporate Benefits.
- Well-equipped offices in Berlin and Munich.
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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Leadership
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Head of Engineering roles across deeploi - This is IT's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Leadership.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked Salary Disclosed on Application bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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