Job Category

Information Technology

Job Level

Job Type

Full time

Job Location

Remote, Anywhere

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Job Description

Job Description

As the Head of Engineering (m/f) for one of our companies, you will guide technical teams building systems and products that may be used by tens of millions of people around the world every day from our headquarters in Berlin.

You will manage one or more cross-functional teams, taking them from concept to production, while remaining involved from a hands-on technical standpoint.
 

About the position:

• You are responsible for the development and supervision of a team consisting of developers, testers and system experts and will be interfacing with a product counterpart.
• You find and hire talented people to build up great teams.
• You lead the development of multiple high-traffic sites and mobile apps.
• You learn from and share knowledge with other Rocket ventures worldwide.
• With your deep knowledge, you are able to solve complex problems and support your team in a hands-on manner.
• You are in charge of code quality and architecture.
• You manage projects, timelines and releases.

Skills & Requirements

Your skills:

• You are a coder at heart. You like hard problems, but know how to keep things simple. You would love to do more coding yourself, but accept that you can bring most value by helping others excel.
• You have built large-scale applications with modern web frameworks (ideally PHP).
• You can deal with (and preferably limit) complexity.
• You are a fast thinker, hands-on manager and a strong communicator - you think and act like an entrepreneur.
• You know agile. Not just from books. You know how to do fast release cycles without compromising on quality.
• You are fluent in English.

Skills & Requirements