Head of Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; München; Vor Ort; EUR 140.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Public transport ticket

Urban Sports Club/EGYM

Corporate Benefits

VSOP

Zusammenfassung

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Head of Engineering to own the technology direction and lead a small, senior team. You will set technical priorities, ensure high quality, and ship rapidly while partnering with founders and product leadership.

You will guide architecture across distributed systems, AWS infrastructure, and an internal DevOps platform, while pushing AI-enabled capabilities with robust security and compliance practices.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience in startups
• Proven ability to own technical direction and ship in a fast-paced environment
• Deep expertise across TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, and PostgreSQL
• Strong AWS experience and production-grade cloud-native mindset
• Hands-on with architecture reviews, security, and compliance practices
• Fluent in English; German a plus

Aufgaben

• Lead a small, senior engineering team of ~5 engineers
• Set priorities, delegate ownership, and coach through 1:1s and code reviews
• Own engineering quality, architecture reviews, and production readiness
• Drive end-to-end delivery from design to production, incl. SaaS onboarding
• Oversee multi-repo architecture, IaC, CI/CD, and observability
• Own security, compliance, audits, and supplier risk management
• Advance production AI: RAG, tool calls, guardrails, monitoring

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Team management

Software architecture

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Python

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

AWS Cloud Tools

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

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