Head of Engineering

Jackalope Digital LLC; München; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

VSOP

Public transport ticket

Urban Sports Club/EGYM

Corporate Benefits

Well-equipped offices in Berlin andMun

Office in Berlin and Munich

Zusammenfassung

Jackalope Digital LLC asks for a Head of Engineering to own technology and lead a small, senior team. You set direction, ensure quality, and ship features with founders and product leadership as a hands-on partner.

You’ll oversee architecture across distributed systems, AWS, and a multi-repo codebase while driving security, audits, and production readiness in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in software engineering with proven leadership of a small, senior team.
• Experience in early-stage startups (seed to Series B) preferred.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React; strong Python and PostgreSQL.
• Advanced AWS knowledge, cloud-native production, IaC, GitOps, CI/CD.
• Experience with AI agents (RAG, tool calling, guardrails, monitoring).
• Product-minded, pragmatic, fluent in English; German a plus.

Aufgaben

• Lead a small, senior engineering team: set priorities, delegate ownership, and mentor via 1:1s and code reviews.
• Own engineering quality: standards, architecture reviews, production readiness, release gate.
• Serve as technical sparring partner for founders, product and design; drive end-to-end delivery.
• Oversee architecture across distributed systems, APIs, AWS infra, and multi-repo setup with IaC.
• Own security and compliance: audits, PKI, least-privilege, secrets management, and due diligence.
• Advance AI support agent: automated resolution, production-grade RAG, tool calls, monitoring.

Kenntnisse

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Python

PostgreSQL

APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

AI agents

RAG

Tools

Electron

gRPC

CI/CD tooling

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.