VP of Engineering

Almedia
Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 200,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Leadership","Collaboration","Execution","Prioritization","Engineering culture building"]

Own engineering end to end—execution, quality, reliability, and people—while reporting to the CTO. Build a lean, high-performing team where AI is core to shipping, and ensure engineers focus on the highest-impact work with Product and Design. Partner with the executive team to turn ideas into experiments, make AI-native workflows the default, and build a QA function that prevents defects and surfaces release risk early.

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Almedia
Almedia
3 days ago

VP of Engineering

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Job Summary

Own engineering end to end—execution, quality, reliability, and people—while reporting to the CTO. Build a lean, high-performing team where AI is core to shipping, and ensure engineers focus on the highest-impact work with Product and Design. Partner with the executive team to turn ideas into experiments, make AI-native workflows the default, and build a QA function that prevents defects and surfaces release risk early.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with the executive team, Product, and Design to turn ideas into experiments and successful releases.
  • •Make AI-native workflows the default to reduce time from hypothesis to live experiment and decision.
  • •Build a QA function that prevents defects and keeps the site reliably up, with authority to surface release risk early.
  • •Own engineering end to end across execution, quality, reliability, and people while reporting to the CTO.
  • •Build the leadership bench and engineering culture so the organization keeps compounding.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 200,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Commuter BenefitsMeal AllowanceLanguage LearningGym Membership

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on engineering leader strong in JavaScript/TypeScript who writes and reviews code.
  • •Experience scaling engineering organizations through significant business growth and developing engineering managers.
  • •Leadership across Frontend, Backend, and Reliability functions with an operating model that lets them move together.
  • •Ability to partner with Product and Design to turn priorities into a shared roadmap.
  • •Experience connecting engineering decisions to business outcomes beyond delivery metrics.
Skills:LeadershipCollaborationExecutionPrioritizationEngineering culture building
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScriptReact NativePython

Company Brief

Almedia
Almedia builds rewarded user-acquisition and engagement products (e.g., Freecash, Prizeplay, zave.it) that pay users for interacting with ads and games, helping advertisers drive high-LTV acquisition and retention.
Industry: Advertising Media Groups
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2020
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