Head of Engineering, B2B SaaS (Secure & Scalable)

Airthings

Oslo

Hybrid

NOK 1,800,000 - 2,800,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Insurance

City center location by Slottsparken

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Growth opportunities

Job summary

Airthings in Oslo is seeking a Head of Engineering for Airthings for Business to lead the engineering team, define the technical direction, and ensure robust, secure, and scalable software solutions. You will partner with Product and Design, own the domain's architecture, and focus on people leadership, hiring, and delivering high-quality products.

You will drive technical strategy, manage debt, uphold engineering practices, and ensure GDPR compliance while growing a healthy, high-performing

Qualifications

Strong background in cloud applications, scalable data platforms, SaaS engineering and B2B services.
Experience with enterprise requirements: access control, integrations/APIs, SLAs, tenders and security/compliance expectations.
Ability to balance enterprise customers' need for stability with ongoing delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering team for Airthings for Business and own the technology stack and technical direction for the unit.
Own the relationship between Airthings for Business and the Airthings R&D team and ensure good communication and collaboration.
Be the technical representative of Airthings for Business internally and externally.
Be part of the Airthings for Business leadership team and the Airthings R&D leadership team.
Set and communicate a clear technical vision for the team's domain, aligned with the broader R&D architecture.
Own outcomes for a full team and domain, taking responsibility for end-to-end success.
Own key architectural and prioritisation decisions with limited oversight, defending your choices and escalating the right things at the right time.
Manage technical debt deliberately: make it visible, prioritise it against feature work, and prevent it from compounding silently.
Own the reliability of the team's systems and products; define what "good" looks like for quality in the domain and hold the team to it.
Establish and maintain engineering practices appropriate to the domain (code review, testing strategy, CI/CD, release management, design/hardware reviews).
Contribute to R&D-wide standards and cross-team initiatives, actively improving engineering across the organization.
Ensure failures are detected, understood, and learned from.
Set key performance expectations for the team's products (yield, responsiveness, resource use, efficiency, scale and more as relevant to the domain) and ensure they are measured.
Ensure the team designs with performance and cost in mind and addresses regressions before they reach customers.
Responsible for security and data privacy integrity. Ensure the team follows secure-by-design practices for its domain.
Ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations (e.g. GDPR, and product/industry certifications applicable to the team) in partnership with other relevant parts of the organisation.
Ensure the team can respond promptly to vulnerabilities and security incidents in its area.
Own the team's ability to deliver predictably and with speed: drive planning, estimation, prioritisation, and remove blockers. Balance short-term delivery requirements against long-term technical health and operational work so the team stays productive over time.