VP Engineering (Onsite / Remote)

About FINN

At FINN our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While our customers drive, we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

Position

Remote work is also possible. The candidate should sit within +/- 3 hours of the CEST/CET time zone.

As a member of the engineering management team, working together with the CTO, the VP Engineer will lead up to 7 engineering teams, to ensure a vision and technical strategy together with Tech Leads. This includes best-of-class engineering recruitment and personal development of every single engineer.
 

Objectives

• Lead a world-class engineering team:You are responsible to build and lead a world-class engineering team. You will go the extra mile to coach and develop the team members on a daily basis.
• Enable the growth of finn.auto:Best software to support business. Together with your cross-functional engineering teams, you ship new features for our cloud platform. Thereby, you actively participate in delivering the best software possible for our customers and business units
• Strive for excellence: You strive to deliver the best possible experience for our users by empowering them through effective software.
• Ensure fast and scalable architecture:You are still hands-on and able to hold a technical discussion with our engineers. Just people management is not enough.
• You build it, you run it: Together with your team, you build features with a “you build it, you run it” mindset and are responsible for testing, deployment, and monitoring of your code. Yes, we believe in Serverless.
• Contribution to finn.auto’s overall strategy:Being part of the executive team you contribute to finn’s overall strategic planning to support its future growth.

Your qualification

• Graduated top of your class with a Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent from a top-tier university.
• Experience (3+ years) in a multi-team lead role. More than 6 direct reports required (30+ indirect reports). Managing people is just as exciting as managing software.
• Proven track record (5+ years) in software engineering of larger projects, preferably B2B, B2C, or SaaS products.
• Ability to constantly see the bigger picture and manage to inspire others with your visions. You are always one step ahead through anticipatory action.
• You are building and working in high-performance, strong cross-functional software development teams (Coding skills are a must).
• Profound knowledge of React, Python, NodeJS or Go.
• Passion for shipping CI/CD is a must. Putting code live every day is a given.
• A “Never-stop-learning” attitude and a desire to develop and grow.
• Passionate about people, and improving the environment in which they work.
• You are fluent in English.

What we offer

• Founders who focus on product and developer needs while building the most popular mobility provider
• A highly motivated environment where you can grow and learn by working on ambitious challenges together in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent fixed salary.
• Significant virtual equity share of the company.
• 3,000€ yearly personal development budget - We constantly motivate you to learn, grow, advance your potential and be the best version of yourself.
• Full visa support - For you and your family
• We love and live agile as a SCRUM team, with open boards, regular retros and daily stand-ups.
• Join an open-minded tech organization with a “best tool for the job” attitude. You have the freedom to choose your equipment, accessories, editors, tools, and technology and are given plenty of room for learning and experimentation.
• A great, modern office in the middle of Munich.
• Loads of fun with amazing colleagues and team events you will not forget.
• You want to drive your own finn.auto? - Get one with our employee discount program or make use of many more benefits we are offering.

Additional details

Values we share

• Customer first - Always focus on our customers’ needs. Reduce complexity, increase quality.
• Own it - Be entrepreneurial in everything you do. Take responsibility for your individual and finn's overall goals.
• Embrace the struggle - Apply attention to detail and don't shy away from tough decisions. Never stop getting your hands dirty.
• We grow and succeed together - We help each other to succeed as a team and grow as individuals. We love to fight and to win together.
• Be honest and open-minded - Always speak out the truth, even if it hurts. Dare to be authentic and embrace others' authenticity.