VP Engineering en Berlin

You re-architect the platform of Xoop's initial product, to achieve an even better scalability. You'll co-architect further products. You do the research you deem necessary, together with your team, to make solid decisions about the technology, that will allow for rapid implementation of highly-scalable MVPs, quick interactions thereafter and is to some degree future-proof. E.g. about front-end frameworks, middleware stack, for CPU-intensive RESTful services, about the back-end/database, the interplay with machine learning frameworks, CDN, testing, continuous deployment and monitoring.

You take ownership of the implementation, together with your team, that you will quickly start to grow.

You are a person who would like to create a great team culture, where expertise, commitment and individual performance are honoured, where team members can learn and improve, have good communication and value team spirit.

Requirements

• University degree (computer science, engineering, math or physics)
• Strong leadership skills, incl. excellent communication skills
• Ready to coach team members to grow professionally
• Ideally, experience in building up an engineering team
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a sense of urgency
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Passionate about web technologies
• Fluent in English, German is a plus
• Eligible to work in Germany and/or Switzerland

Benefits

• Starting base salary of €80-90k
• Shares worth €50-100k, which are set to continue to gain value fast (subject to vesting)