VP of Engineering
Almedia· Tech
BerlinFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
VP of Engineering role based in Berlin, on-site. Lead end-to-end engineering, shape a lean AI-focused team, and partner with Product and Design to drive experiments and reliable releases in a profitable, fast-growing company.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering end to end (execution, quality, reliability, and people), reporting to our CTO
- Shape a lean, high-performing team with AI as core to the way the team ships
- Get engineers onto the highest-impact work, with a shared way of prioritising alongside Product and Design
- 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
- 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
- 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 designed operating model for speed
- Partnered with Product and Design to turn business priorities into a shared roadmap
- Connected engineering decisions to business outcomes, not just delivery metrics
Qualifications
- 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
- Bonus: React Native, Python, data pipelines
- 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
Skills
Required:TypeScriptAI/workflow optimizationTeam leadership
Benefits
- Grow With Almedia: Own meaningful equity in a company that's been profitable from day one
- Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration
- Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more
- We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Almedia
The World’s Smartest Engagement Engine
Almedia operates Freecash.com & other web-apps which connect millions of consumers with brands to shape the products of tomorrow.
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