Head of Engineering

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Certifications include ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we hold partner status with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware.

Overview:

We need another Head of Engineering who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote position. Most of the team is in Frankfurt, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Main duties:

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

Required qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI

Nice to have:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform

What we offer:

• Up to 3 days of home office per week
• Flexible working hours

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Germany.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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