Head of Engineering (f/m/d)

We're hiring a Head of Engineering to lead engineering for one of our product tribes. You'll manage 15 to 20 engineers directly, with tech leads in each squad owning technical direction but no management layer between you and the team. You report to the CTO and sit in a tribe leadership trio with the Product Tribe Lead and Design Lead. This is a people leadership role with a hard technical requirement.

Responsibilities

Feasibility and delivery for the tribe, accountable for tribe-wide delivery outcomes and velocity; Managing 15 to 20 direct reports, including hiring, onboarding, expectations, feedback, development, compensation and promotion recommendations, and performance decisions; Technical judgement across squads, challenging estimates and technical proposals from engineers; Holding a seat in the tribe trio, providing roadmap and planning input through a feasibility lens; Owning the tribe's operating rhythm for planning, estimating, tracking and reporting delivery; Managing capacity by moving engineers between squads and, where it serves Moss, between tribes; Aligning proactively with peer Heads of Engineering and platform and architecture owners on shared-architecture questions

Requirements

4 to 6+ years in engineering management, with a track record of managing engineers directly at a meaningful span; A senior engineering career before that, operating at senior or staff level as an engineer with current system design judgement; Strong systems design, including reading an architecture, spotting where it will break, and arguing alternatives; Comfort as a technical peer to product leadership, having shaped roadmaps and scope through feasibility arguments; Structure at scale without a middle layer, building practices for 15 to 20 direct reports; Fast in unfamiliar domains; Experience from an environment with mature engineering practices such as 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, as either side of it

Benefits

Top-of-market compensation package, including equity; Vibrant offices with weekly breakfasts and Friday demos; 20 days 'work from abroad'; 600 EUR/GBP Learning & Development Budget; Other local benefits