Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

Your mission

• You are part of the Product & Technology leadership team, reporting directly to the CTPO, and fully accountable for engineering execution across the organisation

• You own delivery predictability end-to-end, ensuring realistic commitments, high-quality outcomes, and continuous improvement

• You establish and continuously evolve the engineering operating system, covering planning, development, release, operations, and incident management

• You balance speed, stability, and technical risk, owning platform reliability, security, and architectural integrity

• You lead, mentor, and scale engineering leadership, enabling teams to operate with clear ownership, accountability, and autonomy

• You support the transition towards value stream–aligned teams and build resilient leadership structures

• You partner closely with Product and Data leadership to shape priorities, timelines, dependencies, and trade-offs

• You create transparency through meaningful signals and metrics, clearly communicating progress, risks, and constraints to leadership

Your profile

• Senior experience leading engineering organisations through growth, scale, or increased complexity, with clear ownership of delivery and operational excellence

• Proven ability to lead and develop engineering leaders, not just individual contributors

• Strong architectural judgment in evolving, production-grade web platforms, with a deep understanding of reliability, risk, and system behaviour

• Calm, clear, and honest leadership style, comfortable making and defending trade-offs under pressure

• Pragmatic technical mindset: frameworks and languages matter less than sound judgment and system thinking (Ruby on Rails and React experience is a plus)

• Bias towards “boring technology” while open to evaluating and driving new approaches, including AI-enabled tooling and workflows

• Fluent in English; German is a bonus.

• You live in Berlin

• Strong alignment with our mission and motivation to help build strong neighbourhoods across Germany

What we offer

• A meaningful role with purpose – we create a great product that delivers real value to local communities

• Working in a cheerful and experienced team that actively exchanges knowledge and learns from one another

• A high level of responsibility and ample opportunities to actively contribute and make an impact

• Your nebenan.de (http://nebenan.de) SpenditCard – you receive an additional €35 per month to spend on benefits of your choice

• 30 days of paid vacation per year, plus the option for workation models and a sabbatical

• A strengths-based development culture (we work with the Gallup StrengthsFinder)

• A workplace in Berlin-Kreuzberg and regular events such as Lunch Roulette, Lunch & Learn, and Yoga

• A hybrid working model combining office and remote work days