Job description
Head of Engineering
Job Summary
We're working with an early-stage company in Munich that's already doing what most teams spend years trying to prove - building a product that customers genuinely rely on, and scaling it with enterprise clients. This is a leadership-level role, sitting at the heart of how the engineering team and org evolve over the next phase of growth. You won't be inheriting a mature, fully-structured function.
Key Responsibilities
- Own hiring, coaching and org design end-to-end as the team scales past 10 engineers across three teams
- Free the founders to focus on building and discovery, rather than day-to-day people management
- Build the structure, feedback and growth paths that let every engineer - and every team lead - do their best work
- Stay close enough to the code to be a real sparring partner on architecture and system design
Requirements / Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time in high-growth startups or scale-ups
- Led engineering teams of 10+ people, ideally managing managers or leads - not just individual contributors
- Built or scaled a technical recruiting engine before, and knows how to raise the hiring bar
- AI-first - using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows yourself, and thinking agent-first, LLM-first about how software gets built
- Structured and calm under ambiguity, and can design an org from scratch rather than just run an existing one
- Believes engineers should ship end-to-end and that the best technical solution isn't always the best business outcome
- German language is important here - most customers are German-speaking, and engineers are expected to engage with them directly.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Mentorship from experienced colleagues and external mentors
- Direct access to customer champions to shape product decisions
- Access to cutting-edge AI tooling and a strong investor ecosystem
- Relocation support
- Top-notch hardware
- Daily dinners in the office
- L&D budget
- Wellness perks
- Yearly company off-sites
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full-time
