VP of Engineering

About this role

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000). We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 80 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

VP OF ENGINEERING Berlin, Onsite WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE EXCITING - Own engineering end to end (execution, quality, reliability, and people), reporting to our CTO at Almedia, Germany's fastest-growing company by YoY revenue. - 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. YOUR MISSION - 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. WHAT YOU BRING - Hands-on leader, strong in TypeScript, who writes and reviews code.

This is how everyone operates here, starting with our CTO. - Already rethought how a team works with AI and shipped faster because of it. - Bonus: React Native, Python, data pipelines. YOUR TRACK RECORD - 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. WHY ALMEDIA? - 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, accessible from all around Berlin. - Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.