Director of Engineering
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GermanyFull-TimeDirector
SalaryCompetitive compensation with equity participation
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Job Details
- Experience
- Several years of experience leading multiple engineering teams
- Required Skills
- Node.jsTypeScriptSaaSLLM
Requirements
- Several years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and managing Engineering Managers in a high-growth or scale-up environment.
- Proven ability to define technical strategy across broad product areas and translate it into actionable execution plans and measurable outcomes.
- Strong technical background with the ability to actively contribute to architecture discussions and engineering decision-making.
- Extensive experience in product engineering, delivering user-facing features in fast-paced SaaS or platform environments.
- Demonstrated success in coaching and developing engineering leaders and building high-performing, accountable teams.
- Hands-on experience with AI-native products or AI-powered systems, including exposure to LLM-based applications and product integration.
- Strong understanding of distributed team leadership, with experience managing remote or geographically dispersed engineering organizations.
- Ability to balance execution speed, product quality, and long-term maintainability in complex engineering environments.
- Experience working in high-growth, scaling companies and navigating organizational complexity during periods of rapid expansion.
- Strong product sense and ability to collaborate effectively with Product and Design to make high-impact trade-offs.
Responsibilities
- Lead, scale, and develop multiple engineering teams across the Core Experience and AI product domains, including direct management of Engineering Managers.
- Define and evolve the organizational structure to support scale, clarity, and high ownership across a growing multi-team engineering area.
- Set technical direction and architectural strategy, ensuring teams make sound, scalable, and maintainable technical decisions.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional leaders to translate company strategy into clear technical priorities and execution plans.
- Drive delivery excellence by ensuring teams ship high-quality, impactful user-facing products at speed while maintaining long-term technical health.
- Guide and support the development of AI-native product capabilities, including the use of LLMs and AI systems in customer-facing features.
- Establish strong engineering practices, frameworks, and operating models that improve execution, alignment, and accountability across teams.
- Coach and mentor engineering leaders, fostering a high-performance culture centered on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Represent the Core Experience engineering organization within broader leadership discussions and contribute to overall product and technical strategy.
- Ensure engineering efforts are consistently aligned with business outcomes, user value, and long-term platform scalability.
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