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 Find more English Speaking Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow