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Head of Engineering (m/f/d) | Full-time

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Ayunis

Munich

EnglishGerman B1–B2

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Broad estimate: €44,000–€75,000/year

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Help us build the future of public administration!

Ayunis is a Munich-based GovTech company trusted by more than 1000 cities, municipalities and districts across the DACH region.

With Ayunis Core, we are building an open-source AI platform that automates repetitive administrative work. We use cutting-edge AI and engineering tools to build cutting-edge agentic technology—both for our customers and for our own development workflows.

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As Head of Engineering, you lead the engineering team behind Ayunis Core and own its technical direction, delivery and growth.

This is a hands-on role . You will write and review production code from your first month on, make the critical architectural decisions yourself and be the technical lead of a small team that is about to grow. Working closely with the CTO and our Product team, you turn product priorities into a technical plan and make sure the team delivers it reliably.

Your responsibilities

Lead the engineering team: regular 1:1s, feedback, growth and career development.
Lead our Forward Deployed Engineers, who implement customer integrations and automations on Ayunis Core, and make sure what they learn flows back into the platform.

Own the architecture of Ayunis Core across frontend, backend, agent runtime, identity, permissions and extension interfaces.

Stay hands-on: build critical features, review code and own releases.

Own delivery: planning with Product, release process, quality and predictability.

Own the technical direction of our infrastructure, including deployments, reliability, observability, security and incident readiness.

Bring the technical perspective into prioritization, including when to pay down technical debt.

Hire and onboard engineers as the team grows.

Lead our AI-assisted engineering workflows, including coding agents, reusable agent tooling, evaluations and guardrails.

Collaborate with open-source contributors, software vendors and integration partners.

Strong backend and systems architecture skills, ideally with TypeScript and Node.js, and you still write production code regularly.
Experience leading an engineering team with people responsibility, as Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager or Tech Lead.
Hands-on experience with agent runtimes like LangChain, OpenAI Agent SDK, Mastra or similar.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, databases, observability and security.
Experience designing APIs and integrations, such as OAuth/OIDC, webhooks, synchronization or event-driven systems.
Experience hiring engineers and setting up delivery processes in a small, growing team.
A pragmatic product mindset: you judge technical decisions by their effect on reliability, delivery speed and customer value.
An interest in using and systematically improving AI-assisted software development.
Confident communication in German and English.
Experience with open-source software, regulated environments or the public sector is helpful but not required.

TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, TanStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3-compatible storage, Docker Compose, Hetzner, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry and multiple LLM providers.

No LangChain though – we've built our agent orchestration from the ground up.

A competitive salary
€2,000 annual personal development budget
30 days of holiday
Significant influence over an open-source product and engineering organization
Flexible working hours, hybrid work and EU workations
Modern Munich office and equipment
Regular team events and off-sites
Public transport subsidy and Wellpass

Interested? We look forward to hearing from you.

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Employer: Ayunis
Role: Head of Engineering (m/f/d) | Full-time
City: Munich
Work mode: not stated
Language: English
Seniority: not stated
Listed on a job portal: Nov 13, 2026
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