Head of Engineering

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.
• We are looking forward to receiving your application!
• Your deeploi Team