Head of Engineering (Berlin, hybrid)
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Responsibilities
- Lead the team: Manage the engineers reporting to you directly, and coach your team leads
- Streamline execution: Audit and improve development processes to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce waste, and increase team predictability and velocity
- Set people standards: Define consistent and fair approaches to performance, feedback, career growth, and onboarding, while ensuring teams are structured effectively and people are aligned to the highest-impact opportunities
- Connect up and across: Give leadership clear, regular updates on progress and risks, and translate company strategy into what your teams actually work on
- Stay technically sharp: Weigh in on architecture and technical direction with your teams, and keep close enough to the code to make good calls and earn trust
- Support the vision: Work with the CTO to shape and communicate engineering strategy, and help carry it through the org
Requirements
- Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years managing engineering teams
- Growing leaders: Experience developing senior engineers and team leads, and a readiness to grow them into managers over time
- People-first leadership: You get energy from growing people, and you've built teams others want to join
- Technical depth: Strong background in software development, architecture, and systems design. You can effectively steer technical strategy, uphold engineering standards, and empower teams to own execution
- Stack: Comfortable with TypeScript and a React / Node.js stack, familiar with modern frameworks
- Interview process
- Recruiter interview (45 min)
- CTO interview (60 min)
- Product Lead interview (45 min)
- Meeting the team (back-to-back, 30 min + 30 min)
- Bar raiser interview with CEO (45 min)
- Our core tech stack
- TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, Next.js, Postgres, Pulumi, k8s
- We are looking for someone
- Who leads with care and still holds a high bar
- Who takes extreme ownership and gets things done
- Who's driven to make an impact and challenge the status quo
- Who focuses on outcomes over output - ensuring the team delivers actual business value, not just lines of code
Benefits
Additional Information
A little about us AI-native design: End-to-end workflows where a single prompt produces product shoots, social video, labels and full campaigns without switching tools Millions of users: Built a large user base since 2022, with a clear product bet on where design is heading next Diverse team: 120+ people from 30+ countries, building one product together Product-led: Engineers, product managers, and designers shape what Kittl becomes Strong backing: Over $45M raised from investors who've also backed Slack, Dropbox, and Figma Learn more: www.kittl.com/career Your role at Kittl As Head of Engineering, you'll lead the people side of our engineering organization. You'll own people leadership and delivery across these teams, reporting to the CTO. Your reports are a group of engineers plus a couple of team leads. You'll manage the ICs directly, help growing the team leads into stronger leaders, and keep delivery moving across the board. You'll partner closely with Product and Marketing to manage engineering capacity and make sure what we build lines up with where the company is going.
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