VP/Head of Engineering (all genders)

Meyandy LLC; Leipzig; Vor Ort; EUR 130.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Eorbit Gmbh in Leipzig is looking for a VP/Head of Engineering to own engineering end-to-end, including AI/data, architecture, and delivery. You will lead the team, shape the platform, and report directly to the founders.

In this hands-on leadership role you’ll hire and mentor a small team, build an AI-native engineering organization, and expand to the US market across two continents with product alignment and measurable outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in leadership at high-growth product companies.
• Strong hands-on backend or full-stack background with architectural expertise.
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams and delivering AI-enabled products.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end engineering, architecture, and delivery across products.
• Lead AI/Data function and interface with Product, ensuring reliability and quality.
• Hire, mentor, and scale a distributed, international engineering team.

Kenntnisse

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

Backend / full-stack

System architecture

AI/LLM in production

Product mindset

Tools

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud

LLM integration

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission

Full technical ownership of Rocket — reporting directly to the founders, with no layer in between In this role you own engineering at MICE DESK — fully. There is no CTO layer above you: architecture, technology, delivery, and team are yours, and you report directly to the founders. This is a hands‑on leadership role. You lead the engineering team including our AI/Data function, own the interface to Product, and are accountable for everything that ships. Engineering, end‑to‑end. Architecture, system design, delivery against the roadmap, reliability, technical debt. Backend, frontend, DevOps, QA, and the AI/Data team all roll up to you. You set lightweight processes that let a small team ship fast without breaking things. An AI‑enabled engineering pipeline.

We don’t just build AI products — we build with AI. You make the engineering organization itself AI‑native: agentic coding workflows, AI‑assisted review and testing, automation of everything repetitive. A small team should ship like one three times its size — making that true is your job. AI as a core system capability. You architect the integration of LLMs and agentic workflows into production systems: deterministic logic combined with AI‑generated outputs, with real validation, fallbacks, and reliability strategies. Hotel operations run on our platform — non‑determinism is no excuse for unreliability.

The team. Hire, mentor, scale. You inherit a strong small team and grow it into a high‑performance engineering organization with a culture of ownership and speed. Our distributed hiring strategy across multiple locations is yours as well. Product and business alignment. You work directly with the founders and Product. You challenge requirements, simplify complexity, and connect engineering work to outcomes: revenue, automation, customer impact. As we enter the US market, engineering has to keep pace with enterprise‑scale customers on two continents.

What success looks like:

1. 6 months: Delivery is predictable, the AI‑enabled dev pipeline is running, and the team has grown with A‑players you hired.
2. 12 months: The platform scales with US enterprise customers, core systems are reliable and observable, and engineering is a competitive advantage — not a bottleneck.

Honestly: This is full accountability with no net above it. No CTO layer to make or catch decisions — the architecture, the team, and everything that ships are yours. If you want a role where someone above you sets direction, this isn’t it. If you want exactly that ownership, it is.

Your profile

• 10+ years of software engineering, 5+ in an engineering leadership role at high‑growth product companies.
• Strong hands‑on backend or full‑stack background — you can still go deep.
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams at growing startups.
• Strong architecture expertise: APIs, distributed systems, event‑driven design, cloud.
• LLM / agentic AI systems in production — and genuine conviction that engineering itself should be AI‑assisted.
• Product mindset: you connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, speed, and full accountability.

Nice to have, not required:

• Background in hospitality tech, CRM, PMS, or revenue management.
• Enterprise integration experience (Salesforce, Oracle OPERA Cloud, Microsoft Graph API).
• Experience leading distributed, international teams.

Why us?

We are the technology company rethinking group and event sales in hospitality. What runs today through inboxes, spreadsheets and phone calls, our platform Rocket turns into one continuous, AI‑supported process — from the first enquiry to the signed contract. European hotel groups already run their group sales on it. What that means for you: you work with AI, not despite it. People who join us give feedback that shapes product decisions — and sooner or later come to understand why one prompt works better than another. And because we are growing fast, a lot here is still taking shape. Sometimes the honest answer is “we’re still building that.” That is exactly where the opportunity lies:…

VP/Head of Engineering (all genders) — Eorbit Gmbh, Leipzig.