Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

<h2 id="your-mission">Your mission</h2> <ul> <li>You are part of the Product &amp; Technology leadership team, reporting directly to the CTPO, and fully accountable for engineering execution across the organisation</li> <li>You own delivery predictability end-to-end, ensuring realistic commitments, high-quality outcomes, and continuous improvement</li> <li>You establish and continuously evolve the engineering operating system, covering planning, development, release, operations, and incident management</li> <li>You balance speed, stability, and technical risk, owning platform reliability, security, and architectural integrity</li> <li>You lead, mentor, and scale engineering leadership, enabling teams to operate with clear ownership, accountability, and autonomy</li> <li>You support the transition towards value stream–aligned teams and build resilient leadership structures</li> <li>You partner closely with Product and Data leadership to shape priorities, timelines, dependencies, and trade-offs</li> <li>You create transparency through meaningful signals and metrics, clearly communicating progress, risks, and constraints to leadership</li> </ul> <h2 id="your-profile">Your profile</h2> <ul> <li>Senior experience leading engineering organisations through growth, scale, or increased complexity, with clear ownership of delivery and operational excellence</li> <li>Proven ability to lead and develop engineering leaders, not just individual contributors</li> <li>Strong architectural judgment in evolving, production-grade web platforms, with a deep understanding of reliability, risk, and system behaviour</li> <li>Calm, clear, and honest leadership style, comfortable making and defending trade-offs under pressure</li> <li>Pragmatic technical mindset: frameworks and languages matter less than sound judgment and system thinking (Ruby on Rails and React experience is a plus)</li> <li>Bias towards “boring technology” while open to evaluating and driving new approaches, including AI-enabled tooling and workflows</li> <li>Fluent in English; German is a bonus.</li> <li>You live in Berlin</li> <li>Strong alignment with our mission and motivation to help build strong neighbourhoods across Germany</li> </ul> <h2 id="what-we-offer">What we offer</h2> <ul> <li>A meaningful role with purpose – we create a great product that delivers real value to local communities</li> <li>Working in a cheerful and experienced team that actively exchanges knowledge and learns from one another</li> <li>A high level of responsibility and ample opportunities to actively contribute and make an impact</li> <li>Your nebenan.de SpenditCard – you receive an additional €35 per month to spend on benefits of your choice</li> <li>30 days of paid vacation per year, plus the option for workation models and a sabbatical</li> <li>A strengths-based development culture (we work with the Gallup StrengthsFinder)</li> <li>A workplace in Berlin-Kreuzberg and regular events such as Lunch Roulette, Lunch &amp; Learn, and Yoga</li> <li>A hybrid working model combining office and remote work days</li> </ul>