deeploi - This is IT
1 month ago
Head of Engineering
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Company information
- Company
- deeploi - This is IT
- Location
- München Germany
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
Your mission
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to take full ownership of our technology and lead a small, senior engineering team. You set the technical direction, keep the quality bar high, and make sure we keep shipping, as a close sparring partner to our founders and product leadership. You lead the team day to day and still roll up your sleeves when a problem needs your hands on it.
Your responsibilities
- Lead a small, highly experienced engineering team (5 people): set clear priorities, delegate real ownership, and keep people growing through 1:1s, code-review guidance, and technical sparring.
- Own engineering quality: reliable standards, architectural reviews, production readiness, and the final gate before release.
- Act as technical sparring partner for founders, product, and design, and drive delivery end-to-end: from solution design to production, in short cycles, including advancing our SaaS onboarding.
- Oversee the architecture across distributed systems, APIs, desktop applications, our AWS infrastructure and internal DevOps platform, and a multi-repository codebase with solid infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability behind it.
- Own security and compliance in practice: ISO continuity, least-privilege access, secrets management, PKI, and supply-chain security, including recurring audits and technical due diligence.
- Push our production AI support agent further: more automated ticket resolution, production-grade RAG, tool calling, evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring.
Your profile
- 10+ years in software engineering, with proven experience leading and developing a small, senior team.
- You’ve grown up in early-stage startups (seed to Series B) and know that stage, a purely corporate or enterprise background wouldn’t be the right fit here.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, solid with Python and PostgreSQL, and confident across APIs, distributed systems, production debugging, and multi-repo setups.
- Advanced AWS knowledge and real ownership of cloud-native production: infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, plus a practical security mindset and calm judgement during incidents.
- Production experience with AI agents: RAG, tool calling, workflow automation, evaluations, guardrails, monitoring, approached as software engineering, not model training or ML research.
- Product-minded and pragmatic: business-focused judgement, no overengineering, and a high shipping cadence. Fluent in English (C1); German is a plus.
Nice to have:
- Desktop applications: Electron, native macOS and Windows apps, gRPC, mTLS, secure storage, code signing, automated updates, and staged rollouts.
- Direct involvement in ISO certification, recurring audits, and technical due diligence.
Why us?
- High impact and real ownership from day one: no bureaucracy, no endless approval loops.
- A small, ambitious team in Berlin and Munich, backed by top European VCs including Atomico and Cherry Ventures.
- Competitive salary + virtual share package (VSOP).
- Benefits: public transport ticket or Urban Sports Club/EGYM, Corporate Benefits.
- Well-equipped offices in Berlin and Munich.
Your deeploi Team
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Required skills
- grpc
- german
- product development
- compliance
- ci/cd
- security
- monitoring
- quality assurance
- competitive salary
- team leadership
- react
- typescript
- audits
- python
- aws
- software engineering
- product management
- node.js
- apis
- postgresql
- devops
- infrastructure
- corporate benefits
- english c1
- observability
- ai agents
- tool calling
- mtls
- gitops
- code review
- munich
- distributed systems
- pki
- rag
- workflow automation
- application
- release management
- berlin
- infrastructure-as-code
- ownership
- venture capital
- solution design
- evaluations
- head of engineering
- high impact
- secure storage
- electron
- supply-chain security
- iso certification
- desktop applications
- production readiness
- technical due diligence
- secrets management
- technical direction
- guardrails
- pragmatic
- arbeitnow
- urban sports club
- ambitious team
- technology leadership
- vsop
- egym
- architectural reviews
- public transport ticket
- product-minded
- bureaucracy
- engineering quality
- design collaboration
- code signing
- business judgement
- production debugging
- overengineering
- cherry ventures
- founder collaboration
- aws knowledge
- approval loops
- 1:1 meetings
- least-privilege access
- technical sparring
- atomico
- senior engineering team
- saas onboarding
- multi-repository
- ai support agent
- automated ticket resolution
- multi-repo setup
- cloud-native production
- shipping cadence
- native macos apps
- native windows apps
- automated updates
- staged rollouts
- virtual share package
- well-equipped offices
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