Head of Engineering (m/f/d)

What You’ll Achieve

• Get the best out of the team you have and grow only where it clearly adds. At 11 people, losing one strong engineer costs more than one extra hire gains. But you should be capable of growing the team substantially if business demands it
• Turn the roadmap into commitments the company can count on. Surface dependencies early, clear blockers, and make the trade-off calls with Product and the founders.
• We expect engineering to care about business and product and we expect you to be an example here
• Set the architecture so it holds as data volume, customer count and the team grow.
• Run incidents properly: fast response, honest postmortems, fixes that stop the same thing happening again
• Keep enough processes to be reliable and no more. A 11-person team should not feel like a 100-person one
• Work closely with Product, Data Science, our energy market experts and other disciplines, so we build against the real physical and regulatory constraints

What Sets You Up for Success

Must have

• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams before in a product company, including senior engineers or squad leads
• You have done it in a lean team, hands-on, without a layer of managers to delegate to. Some excellent large-company leaders struggle here. There is no layer to hide behind
• You have personally owned delivery predictability and reliability for a production system real customers depend on, and you can tell us what it looked like before and after
• Strong technical judgment in at least two of: cloud and distributed backend / multi-tenant SaaS; high-volume or time-series data pipelines; IoT, device integration and real-time telemetry; ML or optimization in production. Deep enough to earn engineers' trust, make architecture calls and set the technical direction yourself
• You have run hiring and performance for real: you have grown people, and you have also managed people out when that was the right call
• You treat incident management, security and compliance as yours to own, not to delegate
• Clear written and spoken English. German is a strong plus — most of our customers are German Mittelstand

Nice to have

• Energy, industrial, SaaS or a physical-world domain.
• Having been the most senior technical person somewhere before (CTO, VP Engineering, or the person everyone asked).

Not required

• Being the strongest coder on the team. You do need to read the code, make architecture calls, and occasionally build something.
• A “Head of” title already. We look at what you have done, not what it was called.

What You Get

• Top-of-market team, flat hierarchy — work alongside people who push you to get better
• Competitive salary
• Full ownership from day one — you actively shape our company
• Central office, easy commute — free lunch every Tuesday and Thursday
• Wellpass membership
• Regular 1:1s and retros focused on your growth
• Real impact — your work supports Europe's transition to a smarter energy system

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation