Head of Engineering (all genders) - Commerce Finance Tech

ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the Commerce Finance Tech Circle. You will oversee strategic initiatives, design scalable systems, and guide two high-performing engineering teams in a fast-moving e-commerce environment.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, drive architectural decisions, and ensure that technology choices balance complexity with real business value. Excellent English communication is required.

Qualifikationen

• Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-growing environment.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to align technical design with business value.

Aufgaben

• Oversee strategic initiatives across the Commerce Finance Tech landscape.
• Build scalable, high-performance software solutions with core teams.
• Draft architectural decisions and ensure state-of-the-art products.
• Recruit, coach and mentor engineering teams; manage a unit of two tech teams.
• Report to VP level and prepare MD decisions.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders (Directors, VPs or C-Suite).
• Design scalable systems and data modeling.
• Deep understanding of business and tech processes.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Cloud architecture

Data modeling

Tools

Python

Google BigQuery

AWS

MySQL

PHP

Jobbeschreibung

Head of Engineering (all genders) - Commerce Finance Tech

• Full-time

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe's fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Head of Engineering (all genders) to lead our Commerce Finance Tech Circle Cluster at ABOUT YOU!

Our ABOUT YOU Commerce Finance Tech Circle Cluster is responsible for connecting to the ABOUT YOU Commerce ERP solution to ensure the regulatory compliance of our commerce business. Furthermore, the team is responsible for building our Data Platform used by other stakeholders and the team itself, such as for running financial data pipelines.

Oversee and enable the key strategic initiatives across our system landscape in close collaboration with the application teams

Build performant & high scalable technical solutions in close cooperation with our core teams

Draft architectural decisions and ensure reliable and state-of-the-art products

Build and manage high-performing engineering teams within the Finance Tech Unit which includes hiring, coaching and mentoring

Managing a Unit of 2 tech teams and collaborating closely with different business stakeholders

Reporting directly to our VP level and preparing MD decisions

Challenge business requirements to ensure a good balance between technical complexity while maintaining business value

Provide leadership to the engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Lots of space for your own ideas and creations, flat hierarchies and very short decision-making process

Experienced in accompanying the development of high-scalable software products in an agile environment

Having a deep understanding of Software Architecture and Infrastructure setups in common cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud)

Designing scalable systems and data modeling

Deep understanding of business and tech processes

Comfortable working with senior stakeholders (Directors, VPs or C-Suite), both technical and non-technical

Having an analytical, data-driven, and efficiency-focused approach

Working hands-on with high attention to details and having a get-things-done mentality

Very good written and spoken English skills

good communication skills (especially in English)

Nice to have

Experience with one or several of the following tools/languages: Python, Google Big Query, AWS, MySQL, PHP

A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.