Head of Engineering

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own feasibility and delivery for the tribe: tribe-wide delivery outcomes and velocity, the right problems solved at the right quality as fast as possible
• ▹Lead 15 to 20 direct reports: hiring, onboarding, expectations, feedback, development, compensation and promotion recommendations, and tough calls
• ▹Provide technical judgement across squads: challenge estimates and technical proposals, understand the tribe's systems and the wider Moss architecture
• ▹Sit in the tribe leadership trio with the Product Tribe Lead and Design Lead, giving roadmap and planning input through a feasibility lens
• ▹Run the tribe's operating rhythm: planning, estimating, tracking and reporting on delivery, with proactive transparency to the tribe and leadership
• ▹Manage capacity: put the best people on the most impactful work, moving engineers between squads and, where it serves Moss, between tribes
• ▹Align with peer Heads of Engineering and platform and architecture owners

Requirements

• ▹4 to 6+ years in engineering management, directly managing engineers at a meaningful span
• ▹Hands-on experience running hiring, performance management and difficult conversations yourself, not through a layer of managers
• ▹A senior engineering career before that, operating at senior or staff level, with current judgement on system design
• ▹Strong systems design: read an architecture, spot where it will break, argue an alternative
• ▹Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership, shaping roadmaps and scope through feasibility arguments
• ▹Ability to build the practices that make 15 to 20 direct reports work: clear expectations, regular feedback, visible delivery
• ▹Ability to reason about a new technical domain quickly
• ▹Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices: code review, testing, incident handling, planning and estimation

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, from either side

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Top-of-market compensation package, including equity
• ▹In-person office culture with weekly breakfasts and Friday demos
• ▹20 days of work from abroad
• ▹600 EUR/GBP Learning & Development budget
• ▹Other local benefits

About the company

Moss is the Finance AI platform for Europe's mid-sized businesses, giving companies real-time visibility and full control over their spend by automating card issuing, invoice management and expenses. Founded in Berlin and used by more than 10,000 businesses, it has a team of 300+ people across 5 offices in Europe.