Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

The role

You will lead engineering for a product tribe, managing 15 to 20 engineers directly. You will be responsible for tribe-wide delivery, people management, and providing technical judgement on system architecture.

What you will do

• Accountable for tribe-wide delivery outcomes and velocity.
• Manage 15 to 20 direct reports including hiring, onboarding, and development.
• Provide technical judgement across squads and challenge estimates.
• Act as a technical peer to the Product Tribe Lead in the tribe trio.
• Manage the operating rhythm for planning, estimating, and reporting.
• Allocate capacity by moving engineers between squads.
• Align proactively with peer Heads of Engineering and platform owners.

Required qualifications

• 4 to 6+ years in engineering management with a track record of managing engineers directly.
• Senior engineering career at senior or staff level.
• Strong systems design skills.
• Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership.
• Ability to build structure at scale without a middle layer.
• Ability to reason about new technical domains quickly.
• Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Background at an AI product company or in ERP / financial systems.
• Experience leading in a flat or tribe/squad-style organisation.
• Experience with a Tech Lead / Engineering Manager split, as either side of it.

Benefits

• Top-of-market compensation package, including equity.
• Weekly breakfasts and Friday demos.
• 20 days work from abroad.
• 600EUR/GBP Learning & Development Budget.
• Other local benefits.

About the company

Moss is a Finance AI platform for Europe's mid-sized businesses. Founded in Berlin, it is a fintech unicorn with over 10,000 business customers.