VP of Engineering

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Berlin, Germany
Experience
3 years

Job description

VP of Engineering at Almedia, reporting to the CTO, owning engineering end to end (execution, quality, reliability, and people) and shaping a lean, AI-native team.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
On-site · Berlin, Germany

What you'll do

  • Own engineering end to end (execution, quality, reliability, and people), reporting to the CTO
  • Partner with the executive team, Product, and Design to turn ideas into experiments and successful releases
  • Make AI-native workflows the default, cutting the time from hypothesis to live experiment to decision, so more experiments reach customers without more defects
  • Build a QA function that prevents defects and keeps the site reliably up, with the authority to surface release risk early
  • Build the leadership bench and engineering culture that let the org keep compounding
  • Get engineers onto the highest-impact work, with a shared way of prioritising alongside Product and Design

What we're looking for

  • Hands-on leader, strong in TypeScript, who writes and reviews code
  • Already rethought how a team works with AI and shipped faster because of it
  • Scaled engineering organisations through significant business growth, developing engineering managers
  • Led Frontend, Backend, and Reliability functions, and know how to design the operating model that lets them move together at speed
  • Partnered closely with Product and Design, turning business priorities into a shared roadmap
  • Know how to connect engineering decisions to business outcomes, not just delivery metrics

Nice to have

  • React Native
  • Python
  • Data pipelines

Benefits

Central Berlin office: work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin

  • Own meaningful equity in a company that's been profitable from day one
  • Transport subsidy
  • Breakfasts and lunches
  • Language learning
  • Urban Sports Club
  • Benefits regularly added through rigorous employee feedback

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About Almedia

Europe's #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000)

Almedia is a marketing company offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world, rewarding a community of over 95 million users for engaging with advertisers' products.

Mission

Building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 95 million users for engaging with our advertisers' products.

Key facts

  • Marketing
  • Europe's #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000)
  • Germany's fastest-growing company by YoY revenue
  • Profitable from day one
  • Community of over 95 million users
  • Aiming to become Germany's second bootstrapped unicorn