VP Engineering (f/m/d)

Green Fusion; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Green Fusion in Berlin is seeking a VP of Engineering to partner with the CTO, CPO and CEngO to scale our technology organization. You will own how we develop across all tech teams and bring the structural clarity our growing company needs, with clear decision-making authority over engineering processes, standards, and team structure.

You will lead 5+ squads, mentor leaders, and drive a disciplined tech roadmap, ensuring alignment with product priorities and platform scalability.

Qualifikationen

• 15+ years in software engineering with significant leadership.
• Experience building engineering organizations and cross-functional product teams.
• Strong architectural judgment across cloud infrastructure and hardware/software integration.
• Ability to impose structure in ambiguity while delivering against priorities.
• Fluent English; German preferred.

Aufgaben

• Unify delivery across 5+ squads and 35+ technical team members.
• Establish engineering standards and clear boundaries between discovery and delivery.
• Drive tech-roadmap discipline and align engineering with product priorities.
• Raise throughput with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Tackle tech debt and drive platform scalability.

Kenntnisse

Leadership experience

CTO/VP level experience

Architectural judgment

AI as enabler

People-first leadership

Tools

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission at Green Fusion

Green Fusion is a 100-person climate tech company optimizing heating systems at scale across Germany, with expansion into France. We connect to building infrastructure via proprietary hardware, collect real-time data, and deliver energy savings through algorithmic optimization.

We’re transitioning from fast, early‑stage execution to a more structured, product‑led engineering organization and need help making that shift work in practice.

As VP of Engineering, you will partner up with our CTO, CPO & CEngO to take our technology organization to the next growth level. You’ll own how we develop across all tech teams and bring the structural clarity our growing organization needs. You’ll have clear decision‑making authority over engineering processes, standards, and team structure, in close partnership with the CTO.

What You’ll Own

People

• Unify delivery process across 5+ Squads and with 35+ technical team members, including software and hardware engineers, designers, data scientists, and system engineers.

• Shape leadership culture for the technical teams and mentor leaders in your team, and develop junior managers from within the team

Processes

• Establish engineering standards: introduce consistent development processes, quality gates, and clear boundaries between discovery/prototyping and delivery

• Drive tech‑roadmap discipline, increase alignment between engineering work and product priorities, reducing unplanned work while enabling balanced innovation initiatives

• Raise engineering throughput via AI‑assisted development workflows

Technology

• Tackle tech debt and platform scalability: identify and execute the highest‑leverage architectural improvements

• Drive the technology roadmap (with the CTO & CPO), aligning platform and infrastructure investments with product/customer priorities

Your profile

• 15+ years in software engineering, with significant leadership experience – ideally as CTO or VP Engineering at startups or scale‑ups that have surpassed 50 technical team members

• Experience building engineering organizations (hiring, leveling, process design, team structure), not just managing them; especially with empowered, cross‑functional product teams (Squads and Chapter model)

• Strong architectural judgment across cloud infrastructure (AWS), data systems, and hardware/software integration (if necessary supported by further external resources)

• Comfort operating in ambiguity – able to impose structure without waiting for perfect information

• Embracing of AI as a key enabler in building technology organisations today

• People‑first leadership: experienced in coaching managers, resolving cross‑team friction, and raising the performance bar and inviting people to become their best self

• Fluent English required; German strongly preferred

• Preferred: Experience in energy, IoT, or hardware‑software integration domains

• Track record of cloud migration or platform modernization